My New, New, New Friends, Welcome All, Dear Women And Mens

1. Location of Albania in Europe

2. Volunteer Teacher* in Uganda 

Albania, Uganda from north and south,  I need to thank you for coming from far
Pearl of Africa is the one from south,  whilst the north is near a city named Bar

3. City named Bar in a small country 
called Montenegro north of Albania

Ireland, New Zealand, island both, one near Greenwich, other near earth's end
I pray the Good Lord Preserve you both, we will surely come for hilly ascends.

4. Ireland, land of hilly terrain
 and restful waters

5. Dublin**  Does this remind you of a song ? 

Thanks to each, each one of you for your stay at People n Places
I await your visits, I swear I do, please do quicken your leisurely paces

6. With New Zealand's help warm are we 

7. See Greenwich in the middle and 
New Zealand at earth's end

Traveler's joy in America all do sight, for Brazil n Mexico both cultural delight
Thanks for visting and walking with me, People n places you have come to see

8. Brazil - a Kaleidoscope of colors

9. Mayas of  Mexico - Revel in their past

Greece and Qatar with ancient histories, Olympic history in the former resides

Trade with Mesopotamian's the latter did, now oil is all does Doha*** speak


Ancient lands I bow to thee, I thank you for stopping along your way
Please accept my Shukran****,as Arabs say n also my  Efxaristo***** as Greeks do say

10. Good old Greece

11.  The ancient gate of Qatar

 From Around the World I Have New Friends 

Thank You All, Dear Women And Mens

Pictorial sources

1. luventicus.org  

2.telegraph.co.uk 

3. absoluteastronomy.com 

4. bohemianwriter1.wordpress.com     

5. gemofaday.com     

6. tripadvisor.com 

7. picslaw.co.cc     

8. traveltobrazil.info    

9. mayan-world.com 

10. seodirectoryinfo.com    

11 .flickr.com   

A Wee Bit More


*The Teach Inn Volunteer Project in Kampala, Uganda was set up in 2007 where Katie Lowe in the picture
 learnt some valuable lessons when she spent one month volunteering as a teacher in Uganda in 2008.
** Irish Folksong

In Dublin's fair city, Where girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone, As she pushed her wheelbarrow Through streets broad and narrow, Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"!

*** Doha is capital of Qatar. Fish and pearl hunting Qatar was famous for before the discovery of oil in the 1940's.

**** Shukran is thank you in Arabic 

***** Efxaristo is thank you in Greek


Ireland is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world

New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Due to its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. Polynesians settled New Zealand in 1250–1300 AD and developed a distinctive Māori culture, and Europeans first made contact in 1642 AD.

Greenwich - is a district of South East London, England, located in the London Borough of Greenwich.
Greenwich is best known for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian (0° longitude) and Greenwich Mean Time.

Brazil - The culture of Brazil is basically seen in the diversity of its people. Initially, Brazil was inhabited by Portuguese settlers who ended up marrying the locals. This brought about the term, “mestizo” which essentially means interracial children. Then the Africans came and also married Portuguese which brought a race called “Mulattoes.” When slavery was abolished, many different cross over happened that sort of merged everyone. Today, everyone has a little Portuguese, African, natives, and European blood, and the result is breathtakingly beautiful.

Mexico - The Maya people number between four and six million and that makes them the largest single
block of indigenous peoples north of Peru. The largest Maya groups are the Yucatecans from the tropical Yucatán Peninsula; the Tzotzil, Tzeltal and Lacandón of Chiapas; the Quiché and Cakchiquel of Guatemala; the Chontal and Chol of Mexico; and the Kekchi of Belize. They are divided into groups who speak around 30 different languages.

Many do not speak Spanish and hold rigidly to the Maya way of life, while others are slowly losing tradition and language. The indigenous thatched roof houses, called "casa de paja" are pretty much the same. The old crops (corn, beans, chile, tomatoes and squash) are still being grown using slash and burn cultivation. The form of village social organization seems to have survived intact in villages removed from the larger cities. (mayan-world.com)

Qatar - Excavations at Al-Khor in northeastern Qatar, Bir Zekrit and Ras Abaruk, and the discovery there of pottery, flint, flint-scraper tools, and painted ceramic vessels there indicates Qatar’s connection with the Al-Ubaid civilization which flourished in the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates which is present Iraq during the period of 5th –4th millennium BC. There had also been a barter-based trading system between the settlements at Qatar and the Ubaid Mesopotamia, in which the exchanged commodities were mainly pottery and dried fish (wikipedia ).