The long branded blue crow (Euploea algea), is a butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia that belongs to the crows and tigers, that is, the Danaid group of the brush-footed butterflies family.
This large, light-brown butterfly, with a wingspan of 60 to 70 mm depending on the subspecies, has a metallic-blue to totally metallic-blue underside with small spots on the forewings, depending on the subspecies.
The underside is light brown with small white dots, varying in quantity according to subspecies.
The City That Never Sleeps is a well-known nickname for New York City, famously employed in the “Theme from New York, New York”, covered by Frank Sinatra.
The Indian peacock has iridescent blue and green plumage. The peacock “tail”, known as a “train”, consists not of tail quill feathers, but highly elongated upper tail coverts. These feathers are marked with eyespots, best seen when a peacock fans his tail.
Lisbon has a network of quaint, old-fashioned trams that lurch and screech around the narrow streets of the capital. No visit to Lisbon is complete without taking a ride on one of these classic, pre-war, Remodelado trams.
Overlooking the long Loch Tummel, the Queen's View Scotland is one of the most famous panoramas in the area of Pitlochry (also known as Queen's view Pitlorchy).
It has been a popular destination since the Victorian times.
The view looks over Loch Tummel, to Schiehallion 'the fairy mountain' . In the distance are the mountains of Glen Coe on Scotland's west coast.
Loch Alsh is a sea inlet between the isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides and the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. The area is rich in history, and is increasingly popular with tourists.
Visiting the Mont-Saint-Michel, the Roman Theatre of Orange and Notre-Dame de Paris in less than 12 hours is a piece of cake! Just slip on your seven-league boots and whisk the kids off to France Miniature.
The Petit and the Grand Traouïero (what pretty names!) meet to feed this pretty natural harbor of Ploumanac'h, in Côtes-d'Armor, here obviously at low tide.
Le Roof is a restaurant on stilts, with a room open to the lagoon. Above the water, at the end of the jetty, it welcomes people in a wooden decor with a contemporary style. At lunch or dinner, the spectacle of the sea, the fish and the reflection of the sun is splendid. Some evenings, dolphins come and party around the restaurant.