Sentences with phrase «year visiting the island»

This is our second year visiting the island for scuba diving and snorkeling.

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This idea was driven home to me a year ago, when one of my publishers came to visit me on Necker Island, which is in the British Virgin Islands.

Last year, Giustra's friend and fellow philanthropist Amed Khan convinced him to visit Greece to see first - hand the plight of Syrians crossing the waters between Turkey and Greece to reach the island of Lesbos.

The Caribbean economy has been in a slump for several years, affected by the global financial crisis, which caused a slowdown in tourist visits to regions like the Cayman Islands, Barbados and the Bahamas.

Posted 24 October 2014 11:32 GMT by Rezwan Each year, approximately one million tourists visit the island nation Maldives for its sunny warm weather and stunning natural beauty.

«Here is an island that people used to visit but has been basically closed off to U.S. visitors for the last 50 years.»

(According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, Cuba trails only the U.S. and Mexico as a destination for Canadians holidaying abroad, with more than a million Canadians visiting Cuba every year, the island country's biggest source of tourists.)

«We are heartbroken to see the devastation that Hurricanes Irma and Maria have inflicted on the Florida Keys and several Caribbean islands, where our ships have been visiting since the beginning of our 50 years in business,» said Frank Del Rio, President and Chief Executive Officer of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. «The Caribbean is part of our family, and we are grateful to work with All Hands Volunteers and Happy Hearts Fund to create the Hope Starts Here hurricane relief program and do our part in giving back to these destinations.

By the year 1651 a sufficient number of Baptists were located in Massachusetts to merit a visit of fellow Rhode Island Baptists.

Today, the 75 - year - old cardinal heads the island's Roman Catholic Church, thrust into the spotlight perhaps more than ever with Pope Benedict XVI's visit this week to Cuba.

Almost two million people call the 13 - mile - long island home, as many as 5 million can commute into the city every day and over 40 million tourists visit every year.

Seafood lovers found shrimps, squid and fish from the ocean as well as from the nearby Lago Trasimeno (when visiting Piacere Barbecue next year, be sure make a stop at that wonderful lake and take the little ferryboat to the island within).

My husband LOVE»S it and so many stories he and his bestie from college tell start with «that one time we were drinking goose island...» he loves it so much in fact that my father - in - law made a side trip to pick some up last year while visiting C's grandparents.

Famous for: His 5 year around the world trip where he visited the Galapagos Islands and based his evidence found on his theory of evolution by natural selection

I was fortunate to visit this island 2 years ago.

I do have a second dream vacation, as my parents are form Greece, I would love to take Cynthia there when she is 5 or 6 years old to visit the beautiful islands and my culture.

The Reading Road Trip, gives both Sandals Resorts and Beaches Resorts guests as well as those visiting the islands, the opportunity to visit a locally supported school to offer literacy, comprehension and vocabulary support and to provide books to students during the school year.

Bought this for our two year old grandson who likes to sit at the kitchen island with others to eat or visit.

Previously, Jana spent 14 years on the faculty of the Whidbey Island Waldorf School, teaching music and main lessons, and has also been a visiting faculty member at several Waldorf teacher training institutes in the US, as well as abroad.

Manhattan resident Lynda Marín had been visiting her 86 - year old mother Socorro in Mayagüez when Hurricane Maria hit the island.

Earlier this year, after de Blasio didn't visit the Brooklyn station where an Long Island Railroad train derailed, he noted it wasn't of the same «magnitude» as the Metro North crash, since nobody died.

Patrick's Day Parade breakfast in Staten Island, a stop for corned beef and cannoli at a Staten Island assemblyman's office, a visit to an annual passover food distribution site with Jewish groups in Brooklyn, and a Lunar New Year celebration in Flushing, Queens, before his announcement on City Hall steps.

Flights and sea links were reopened and travel increased to an estimated 400,000 Americans expected to visit the island this year.

On a visit to the troubled Rikers Island jail facilities a few years ago, Councilmember Daniel Dromm was taken aback by an unannounced companion accompanying a group that included council members and the corrections commissioner.

When New York City Councilman Daniel Dromm first visited Rikers Island three years ago, he entered a cell to get a sense of what it was like to be detained there.

BOARDWALK EMPIRE — «Coney Island's boardwalk becomes an NYC landmark on its 95th anniversary,» by Curbed New York's Tanay Warerkar: «The Riegelmann Boardwalk at Coney Island was officially designated New York City's eleventh scenic landmark on Tuesday morning, capping a years long effort by local residents and elected officials to officially recognize the cultural icon that is synonymous with visiting Coney Island.

«While there are many groups who are working on tourism and helping to «sell» Staten Island to the millions of tourists who visit our city each year, there has been no central voice to coordinate all our efforts.»

So far the team has visited almost 70 of the islands to capture mosaics, with a schedule to resurvey each site after two years.

On Saturdays 40 years ago, when Singer (then Alison Tepper) was 5 years old and wanted to be in ballet class, she and her parents would set out on a very different errand: visiting her autistic 7 - year - old brother, Steven, at the Willowbrook State School, an institution on Staten Island, New York, that housed more than 5,000 people diagnosed with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

Mather first caught sight of a volcano when she was on holiday, visiting a friend on Reunion Island, while she was a third - year chemistry undergraduate at Cambridge.

In the Galapagos Islands, another wilderness ecosystem inhabited by sea birds and seals, sea lions and other pinnipeds, many tourists visit the breeding colonies every day of the year.

Deception Island, built on a volcano, is one of the most visited places in Antarctica; the 2007 - 08 year saw some 25,000 visitors, according to the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO).

Over the past 11 years, scientists, astronomers, and engineers have engaged over 50,000 students while visiting over 3,000 classrooms on the Big Island during the annual «Journey» week.

Indeed, stone tools and mammoth bones unearthed in the 1970s at La Cotte de St Brelade, a cave on the south of the island, revealed the site was repeatedly visited by Neanderthals from at least 240,000 years ago.

I've been visiting Fiji for the last 20 years — long enough to choose two islands to call my favorites: Namotu and Tavarua.

I love Marco Island and it's been years since we visited but I remember coming home with bags of beautiful shells.

The Caribbean island has been on my list of must visit destinations for years and this beachside home only furthers my desire.

Maybe I will go back next year or the year after — I have also heard that Milos, Paros and Ios should be worth a visit, do you have any favorite Greek islands?

I just got back from my annual trip to Asia and this year I was fortunate enough to visit Koh Samui, a tropical island in Thailand.

This year we visited Skopelos island - wild beaches, relaxing scenery, good food - all I...

We try to visit a different island each year.

I still own a house there on a beautiful island in the mid-coast area, so I get back to visit once or twice a year.

Also, there are up to one million of Filipino women who visit the Singapore island every year.

A man visiting a small Mediterranean island is stunned when all of the island's residents recognize him and insist that he is an island resident who has returned after many years, even though he knows he has never been there before.

It is the attempt to penetrate The Void that brought us Alex Haley's Roots, that draws thousands of African Americans across the ocean to visit West Africa every year, that left me crumpled on the rocks outside the Door of No Return at Gorée Island's slave house as I stared out over a horizon that my ancestors might have traversed once and forever.

Eight years later, he visits the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island and comes upon a photograph of the same woman, whom he discovers was an actress who made an appearance at the hotel in 1912.

So many news to share with you guys, to begin i want to thank my faithful readers to follow the site and the social media accounts (twitter and instagram), today the site celebrates its 11 years online, and it's because michelle's fan base gets bigger day by day and your support to the site that my interest is still here, i love michelle and her carrer in the same way since the begining, but her choices made me a bigger fan and picked my interest, i'm particulary fan of all her last movies, all her upcoming movies intrigues me, they're all so different and more my kind of movies, the last movie i saw in theaters was OZ, and my two favorite movies of Michelle are shutter Island and Me Without You (not very known, but if you find it, you should watch it, for the story, for Michelle, the music) so i look forward to see her in All The Money In The World (December 27 in france) and The Greatest Showman (End of January), so thank you for your visits, your nice comments, generally i always put a new design for the site's birthday but i didn't have the time, so when we will get a new photoshoot, i will change the design, i like this one very much, and again THANK YOU

Federal officials, on a routine monitoring visit to the island last year, turned up more than 100 violations of federal special - education rules.

When asked how these visits benefitted his team, Peter Rutkowski, Assistant Principal at Disney II said, «LEAP intervisitations throughout the year helped us feel like we were not on an island in our efforts to personalize learning, and [they] supported us in developing innovative instruction that works for our students.»

This plan is derailed by three occurrences: thirty - six - year - old sales representative for Knightley Press, Amelia Loman makes her first visit to Island Books to present the publisher's Winter List (and is treated rather shabbily by A.J.); A.J.'s escape valve, a rare and valuable edition of Tamerlane, a collection of poems by Edgar Allan Poe, is stolen; and a bright two - year - old girl named Maya is left in his bookstore.