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Neighbors

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We always try to retrieve familiar faces in our lives, it could be a smile, voice, manner anything. While being on a walk, moving across the country or world, we always get attracted to certain frames of mind as friends, colleagues, or neighbors. We can't be friends with everyone, but the hunt of finding a face instate the basic communication. Change of college, jobs, marriage moving is what we all do. However, my very first neighbors in the state was an elderly couple. The lady was friendly with a sweet smile on her face, her white cloudy hair used to remind me of my Grandma. I often use to mention her to my parents and Grandma over Skype. It was my first foreign stay and I felt very welcomed with her warm smiles. I use to had small chats with her, usually about the weather, or how I am today! American movies had made me familiar to their fire brigades, ambulances, but seeing them often raised my concern for the elderly couple. Later, I came to know, the couple has a midd...

Oldest city in America 'St. Augustine'

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The essence of Spanish colonial architecture is encapsulated in historical buildings, beautiful brick roads and narrow alleys of St. Augustine city. Time has been standstill here, holding the substance of the 15th-century culture in the nation's oldest city. Located on the east coast of Florida adjacent to the beach St. Augustine is popular among tourists interested in history or  amenable  to know the culture of people who lived here centuries ago. Most of the buildings are renovated to keep the antiquity intact but the structures are still the same. The city gracefully welcome tourists from the Bridge of Lions, a double-leaf drawbridge guarded with two marble lions. The bridge connects downtown St. Augustine to Anastasia Island across Matanzas Bay. Bridge of Lions There are many museums and galleries in the city like Oldest House Museum Complex, St Augustine History Museum, World Golf Hall of Fame and Museum, Metalartz Gallery, The Old Jail of St. Augustine. ...