Mount Juliet Estate is a wonderful estate in Kilkenny, Ireland. The main house dates from the 1750's.
Snow Lake is a 2.5 mile, or about a two hour hike from the off-road car park. It is easy to moderate, with a series of slight ridges to cross, ascending and descending into meadows and glacial lakes reaching Bench Lake after ¾ mile, then continuing another ½ mile to Snow Lake.
Everyone says, dreamily, "it's the Paris of the Middle East." It's not. Beirut is its own funky animal: tense, beautiful, cracking with growth, assaulted by civil strife, graffitied with advertising for Starbucks and Applebees and perfumes from Paris, but without jobs for women, without futures for the young people bristling with university degrees.
A certified organic farm in the Columbia River Gorge that grows its own lavender and manufactures own bath and beauty products.
Parc du Mont-Royal (or Mount Royal Park) is a city park on a mountain just north of downtown Montreal, and it is from which the city derived its name. Jacques Cartier scaled the mountain in 1535 and named it Mount Royal, which in the 18th century replaced the former name of the city, Ville-Marie.