#Savannah citadel day

[antirepurp]

oh my god which fucking freak at sonic team designed savannah citadel day act2. who thought a drifting challenge with a time limit was okay

[pacdevil]

this song is severely slept on, it slaps so hard and for what..

[beevean]

Unleashed DLC Levels: Exist

X6: Look at what they have to do to mimick a fraction of my power!

Unleashed's extra content was lowkey mean lol. Not just the DLC, but the extra acts as well (that stupid Savannah Citadel Day Act 2 made me waste so much time of my life)

But hey! At least it's completely optional to the enjoyment of the game! Unlike a certain Gate's Laboratory :)

[blazehedgehog]

What are your Unleashed day time stage rankings from best to worst?

Best

Rooftop Run

Dragon Road

Jungle Joyride

Savannah Citadel

Cool Edge

Skyscraper Scamper

Arid Sands

Windmill Isle

Eggmanland

Worst

Honestly it's hard to rank these because I don't think I hate any of them, outside of Eggmanland. Like I don't think I've ever even thought about whether I had favorites. When I replay Unleashed, I do not play these in a specific order or skip levels (again, outside of Eggmanland). I love most of them very equally.

So, for example, I rate Windmill Isle because it's the first level, it's the easiest, and it's the least complex. I take points away from Arid Sands because it's the hardest level in the game to S-Rank (at least, I think so).

Rooftop Run is probably the most balanced level in the game. Dragon Road is the fastest. Jungle Joyride has a cool visual aesthetic. And so on.

[borrelia]

unleashed forced me to take a break bc something Bad happened to some collisions in savannah citadel. i dont have to tell you which time bc both day and night have bad collissions happening in them.

[sonicmusicremixes]

TITLE: [MUSICAL REMIX] Sonic Unleashed Remixes (#3): Mazuri - Savannah Citadel Day

ARTIST: Timmeyto Soup | (Timmifutzelchen)

Try not to get too much sand in your shoes. The location known as Mazuri is based on Africa. However, this electronic remix of “Savannah Citadel - Day” might almost remind you of early American country music. At times, it tries to have a rock and orchestral feel, but it’s all synth-made.

No download link. Please support Timmeyto Soup on PayPal!

-Samurai Echidna.

[rabbitcruiser]

The purpose of Brownielocks Day is to celebrate being a brunette—or "brownielocks"—and to take pride in having brown hair. As some people have "big" brown hair, the day has also been called Big Hair Day. It has also been referred to as Brunette Pride Day. Created by Brownielocks, a website with "Unknown, Fun, Silly, Daily, Weekly and Monthly Observances," Brownielocks Day takes place on November 24 because that is their birthday: the anniversary of when they bought their domain name. According to the Brownielocks website, someone can still be considered a brownielocks even if their hair has turned gray because they are still a brownielocks at heart.

Both brown and black hair can be considered as brunette, and this encompasses the hair color of about 90% of the world's population. Both women and men can be brunettes, but the correct spelling for a man with the hair is "brunet." Brunettes have approximately 100,000 hairs on their head, while blondes have about 120,000, and redheads have 80,000. With so many brunettes with so many strands of brunette hair, there is plenty to celebrate today!

Brownielocks Day, also known as Big Hair Day and Brunette Pride Day, is being observed today! It has been observed annually on November 24th since 2013.

Brownielocks have recommended the following ways to celebrate the day:

Don't be ashamed of being a brunette, even if you've dyed your hair blonde.

Wear brown.

Tell a brunette she is beautiful. Appreciate the brunette in your life.

Give a brunette a hug.

Wear your hair big—any color of hair. Send photos of your hair to Brownielocks and they will post them.

Enjoy your teddy bear or give someone a teddy bear.

Do not tell blonde jokes.

A few other ways to celebrate the day could be to watch Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or its sequel, Gentlemen Marry Brunettes; to recall some famous brunettes, or to dye your hair brunette.

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[h-worksrambles]

The two versions of Sonic Unleashed are so interesting to me because I honestly can’t decide which one I like more.

The HD Unleashed on Xbox 360 and PS3 always struck me as having some of the highest highs in the Sonic series but also some of the lowest lows. It looks gorgeous, especially for the time it came out and the art direction does a splendid job selling the vibe of an adventure round the world. It has some of the most spectacle heavy, fast paced levels of all the Boost games. It’s also probably the hardest Boost game which is probably why it tends to score better with die hard Sonic fans who are more patient and looking for a challenge, than it does with newbies or general audience who come to it with no idea what to expect, get their butts kicked three levels in and bounce off. When everything clicks, it looks and feels amazing. And when you couple that with the gorgeous cutscenes, possible one of the best OSTs in the entire franchise and a simple but surprisingly wholesome story, it makes for a really fun and sprawling adventure.

On the other hand, while it’s exhilarating at its best, at its worst this game makes me want to put my head through a wall. The biggest offender is obviously medal collection. Making the player grind to a halt to pick up mandatory collectibles is just aggravating. It’s not so bad in the night stages where taking your time is encouraged, but in the day stages it’s insufferable. I find it always spikes around Adabat/Jungle Joyride where you get the 6th Chaos Emerald. No matter how diligent I am on any given replay, I always find myself having to stop and backtrack for medals here. Which adds insult to injury because I don’t even like Jungle Joyride. It encapsulates a lot of the worst traits of Unleashed’s levels. Specifically, they’re are often too long, especially the later night levels. I’m less encouraged to practice them to work up to a S Rank because one slip up means restating and doing several minutes of progress again. The day stages are shorter of course but levels like Jungle Joyride Act 1 are still longer than anything in Colours or Generations, which makes replaying for S Ranks a real chore. And I personally don’t think the level design is on par with Generations. There’s a lot more cheap deaths you don’t see coming and the controls (especially the drift) are much looser. I put a lot down to this being the first Boost game (unless you count Rush). So Unleashed is very experimental in figuring out what works. And not all of it does.

And your reward for all of this is the worst final level and final boss of the mainline series (at least in my opinion). HD Unleashed is pretty great for a lot of its runtime but you have to put up with some real BS to get there and it really falls off near the end. A lot of the minute issues worsen near the endgame and all the worst levels are packed together there too. Whenever I replay HD Unleashed, I’m always super into it at the start but by the time I reach the final levels, I just kind of want it to be over.

And then there’s the Wii/PS2 version. Getting it out of the way, the worst part of this is how cut down it feels compared to the HD version. It naturally looks worse. Empire City and Savannah Citadel are cut for no real reason. And the charming huh words are replaced with these ugly point and click maps that look like something out of a smartphone game. It’s naturally very stripped down and lacks a lot of the flavour…

And yet, some of those cuts are actually good? Medals being optional rewards that get you extra lives and other bonuses is so much more palatable than making them progression gates. Plus, they’re now rewards for good ranks rather than forcing you to stop and look for them so they encourage you to actually get better at the game. I also think the daytime levels actually fix some of the problems in the HD counterpart. Assuming you play with a GameCube/Classic Controller to circumvent the annoying motion controls, then the drift feels much tighter, the homing attack and boost aren’t mapped to same button anymore, and, hot take here, but the level design is actually better in some ways than the HD version. Less cheap deaths and bottomless pits you can’t see coming because the camera’s zoomed in too close.The length is also closer to Generations. Not so short that you’re done in a minute but also not so long that replaying for S ranks is a chore.

The Werehog levels are definitely worse of due to a downgraded combat system that robs them of any depth the HD version might have had, but between having less annoying QTEs, and being split into shorter, but more numerous acts, (which again, makes S rank replays more manageable), there’s still some pros even here. Plus, the EXP system is much less grindy here. Maxing out the Werehog is so much less tedious.

I still admittedly don’t care for the Secret Rings esque missions, but I’ll take them over the Hot Dog Challenges or the unfair optional acts and DLC levels in the HD version. Couple that with a final level and boss fight that isn’t awful this time, and the fact that the fun story and cutscenes are still intact, and Unwiished is..actually pretty great. It’s definitely missing a lot of the HD version’s charm and that game is still certainly more complete. But when you remove a lot of the bloat from that version it’s a lot easier to enjoy the best parts of Unleashed.

I guess I just wanted to ruminate on my feelings on the two versions of Unleashed because I have a complicated relationship with the game. Like I said, to me, of all the Boost games it’s always been the one with the highest highs and the lowest lows. I don’t go back to it as much as Colours or Generations even though there are parts I think eclipse either of those two games. I always liked it, but it was never one of my absolute favourites, so while I was really happy to see it gain more of a following in recent years, I wasn’t exactly stanning the game myself, especially when the praise tends to revolve almost entirely around the HD version, where as I think both versions have their pros and cons. The Wii version fixes a lot of the problems I have with the HD one, but it also lacks a lot of the flavour and many of the cuts feel like a step too far. They definitely complement each other and I’d recommend both to series’ fans, but it all serves to make them very interesting titles to reflect on.

[reverofenola]

Sonic Unleashed (PS3): Mazuri Day (Savannah Citadel Act 5 DLC) [S rank] ...

[the-everlasting-dream]

The Revelation, Chapter 14 - TRR AU

Summary: Drake and Elizabeth meet face to face finally. 

A/N: Surprise another chapter, I’ll have you know I’ve scrapped the rest of the plot to this series so from now on this is pure spitballing so for those of you still with me, lets do this. 

Word Count: 3000+

Warnings: Language, slight violence, mentions of blood and injury

MASTERLIST

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‘I’m gonna call to check on Bartie then I’ll be back,’ Savannah informed her brother sitting on the hospital bed. 

 Barely hearing his sister stepping out to take a call, Drake sighed once again, eyes flicking to the ceiling, studying the white plaster mounted above his head. He’d passed out after the duel, after the significant blood loss he’d sustained from Neville’s cut to his side. The deep cut had gotten infected despite the medical attention he’d received. Under Savannah’s careful supervision, he’d taken the prescribed antibiotics and the infection was subsiding. You should be able to resume normal activity with supplementary physiotherapy sessions for that shoulder, they’d informed him after the latest check up. 

By all rights, he should be fine. He should be okay, more than okay in fact. First man to win a duel in a hundred years they told him. You should be celebrating they said. You should be proud of yourself. 

But why did he feel so numb?

Never in his life had Drake felt so… listless. As if he’d lost the will to move, to breathe, to do anything.. At first the pain, though it hurt like hell was a welcome distraction from her. Elizabeth… Her name still pierced him every time it crossed his mind more often than it should have. He was missing her so much… No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t get rid of those thoughts, couldn’t stop them from creeping into his mind again. He’d tried to force her out of his head, but it seemed impossible. His victory over Neville had only confirmed that. At Hana’s insistence, he’d done it, he’d kept fighting, fighting for her and when he had won, when they were showering him in praises and honours, he’d realised that the only prize he’d wanted was to see her again. During the fight, a tiny part of him had naively been hoping that she’d miraculously be there and naturally when Elizabeth wasn't, his spirit plummeted. 

‘You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.’ 

Jackson Walker’s rendition of Maya Angelou’s words echoed back to Drake now as he continued to stare out the hospital room window, looking out at what he could see of the Cordonian citadel stretched out beneath him. He’d held those words close to his heart all through his life, recalling how his dad had told him that after a particularly gruelling day at school. His father had made him promise him that no matter what life threw at him, even though he’d get knocked down, he’d always get back up. When Jackson had passed away, Drake silently resolved to honour his father’s memory in that. And so far, he’d kept his promise fiercely until now…   

His chest ached now where the bullet had torn through it, a visceral reminder of what he’d had and lost. A deepset tiredness filtered through him. He was tired, so tired of feeling this way, of fighting constantly only to be constantly let down. I’m sorry Dad. Drake thought to himself, feeling a profound sense of shame and regret. This time, this time its too much… He couldn’t go on like this, to hope and to pray for a sign that was never going to arrive. This was the moment that Drake Walker gave up.

Almost as if fate had answered his call, Drake heard the door swing open. Assuming it was his sister, he ignored her, barely turning his head in favour of continuing to stare out the window at leaves blowing by in the wind. 

‘If you’ve come to lecture me again Sav you can save it,’ he snapped backhandedly. 

 ‘Its… its not Savannah.’ 

 At the sound of her voice, Drake whipped his head around so fast, the nerve in his neck tinged painfully but he was too distracted by the sight of the one person he’d given up on seeing for the rest of his life. 

 ‘Elizabeth!? W-w-what? How?’ 

What… what were the chances of her showing up so… just when he was ready to give up… 

 ‘Hey Drake,’ her voice was small and smile even smaller as she stood in the doorway, hesitating. 

 ‘You’re back.�� It come out somewhere between a question or a statement but Drake was too busy trying to still the butterflies in his stomach as he scrambled into a sitting position. 

 ‘Uh.. yeah, I’m back.’ She shifted uncomfortably on her feet, hands wrung in a tense knot. 

 A million questions buzzed in his mind yet his tongue failed to articulate even one as he sputtered visibly at the sight of her, same dark hair twisted into a loose braid, grey cardigan, jeans and a t-shirt hanging on her slim frame he knew so well and at the same time not at all. Amidst his negotiation to settle into a comfortable, his arm missed the edge of the bed and threatened to send him crashing down to the floor. At the last second he managed to catch himself on the bed frame but not without a pain lancing through him so sharp, his vision tinged red.

Before he could register it, Elizabeth was by his side, helping to prop him back up on the bed. As she moved to position his pillow, Drake couldn’t take his eyes off her hand where it rested on his arm, her skin warm against his for the first time in months seemed to seep through him to his chest where a little spark of hope was rekindled.  

‘What happened?’ Elizabeth scanned the sight of him, a tiny crease between her eyebrows telling him she was thinking hard with that medical science degree of hers, assessing him closely. 

 ‘I..uh….’ 

How was he supposed to tell her he got stabbed? Drake glanced at her determined face and nodded slightly, knowing he shouldn’t lie to her. 

‘After I passed out… after the duel… Neville’s stab… it wasn’t very deep but coz of the crowds at the ball, the ambulance took a lot longer to get… to get to me. They told me I bled a lot, almost bled out, used some big fancy word like ex-extrasink-‘ 

‘Exsanguination,’ she put in, her expression still calculating. 

 ‘Yeah that,’ Drake gulped, dropping his gaze to the blanket cover his lap, resisting the urge to scratch at the sound under the bandages, a constant urge he fought to curb. ‘Anyway I guess I should count myself lucky that that bastard can swing a sword but he didn’t have any force behind the blow. Since it was on the side and not in the middle, its not too bad I think…’ 

‘You’re extremely lucky it didn’t hit any major organs.’ 

He nodded once. 'Got infected for a bit but they gave me something for that and it seems to be working, I guess...'

‘Its still an abdomen wound,’ she rationalised, eyes sweeping across him again. ‘They’re always tough to recover from because they’re in the middle of the body and you can’t just pop it in a sling like a broken leg. You must have had trouble breathing and eating and peeing and p-’ 

‘Yeah that’s been rough,’ Drake cut her off, feeling the top of his ears burn red hot in embarrassment. He shifted again, wincing as he tried to try alleviate the discomfort where the bandage was digging into his ribs. 

Elizabeth noticed immediately, concern flooding back into her expression. ‘You’re not comfortable. Do you need me to call the nu-‘ 

‘Its fine,’ he cut her off, loathe to cause a whole scene. ‘Just this stupid bandage is twisted.’ 

She swallowed once. For the first time in months, those brown eyes lifted up to meet his own and he couldn’t help a sharp inhale of breath. ‘I can take a look if you want?’

Drake eyed her for a moment, conflicted but eventually he gave in. ‘Sure that would be great actually.’ 

It was a bit of a challenge to wrestle the hospital gown up while preserving his modesty but they made it work and as soon as Elizabeth’s cool hands touched his side, he hissed a little, not expecting the contact. 

’Sorry,’ she gave him an apologetic look before leaning down to peer at his wound. 

As she fiddled with the bandage, he marvelled at the level of care and concern she was showing him. He had no idea what state her memory was in but he couldn’t deny his own feelings, having her here next to him was so inexplicably right he couldn’t explain it. The spark of hope flared up in his chest.. Maybe they- Suddenly the tiny irritating pain in his side ceased. 

 ‘Better?’ 

He wiggled experimentally and found that the pain had subsided and he could breathe properly again. ‘Much. Thank you.’

‘It was nothing.’

She helped him adjust his clothes again, sitting on the edge of the bed for a moment as Drake took in the sigh of her again, unable to believe she was even here. With her sitting so near, hand inches away from his, close enough to reach out and- 

Elizabeth glanced down abruptly clearing her throat as she realised how close they were and wrapped her cardigan tighter around herself, almost as a shield between them. Her gaze slid hesitantly up to his before dropping to the floor. A hundred things were on the tip of his tongue, burning questions he had wanted to ask for the last few months but he couldn’t bring himself to vocalise any of them. Just as he was mustering up the courage to say something, Elizabeth spoke, her voice quiet and unsteady. 

 ‘You could have died Drake.’ 

 ‘Elizabeth…’ Her name felt both foreign and familiar on his tongue after months of disuse. he wanted to say mo-

‘Why did you do it? Why did you do it Drake?’ She questioned. ‘Why did you accept Neville's challenge?' 

A long, deep sigh escaped him as he struggled to find some explanation. 'I had to Richmond... I had to for you. For Savannah, for my dad, for every commoner they’ve ever looked down on. Saying yes was the only chance I had to prove him wrong about all of this. To fight him on his own terms... It was a stupid idea,’ he continued, rubbing the back of his neck with his free hand. ‘For a moment there, I almost didn’t make it.’

‘Drake..’ 

Her voice was wobbly as her mouth shaped his name and he knew tears were not far away. This time he did reach for her hand, grasping it between his fingers until she was looking him deep in the eyes. 

‘It was you Richmond… Elizabeth.. I thought of you. I did it for you. Even if you don’t remember… even if you don’t love me… Elizabeth I-‘ 

She tugged her hand away from his suddenly, he gasped at the break in contact before his eyes strayed to her face where he could see her withdrawing further into herself… and away from him. He opened his mouth to speak, to say something, anything that would bring her back to him when the door suddenly slammed open, the sound shattering whatever headway they’d made. 

 ‘Dra-Oh!’ Savannah’s grey eyes blew wide open at the sight of her. ‘Elizabeth…’ It was obvious how her tone immediately soured. 'I didn’t know you were back.’

‘Uh.. yeah. Hi Savannah,’ Elizabeth mumbled, standing up to quickly she almost tripped. 'Yeah well… I was just leaving actually.’

Drake watched his younger sister’s face morph into a disgusted look. ‘So soon? You look like you just got here… What made you come back?’ She snapped, crossing her arms over her chest as she stared the other woman down. 

 ‘Yeah,’ he put in, finally questioned, curiosity deep in his voice. They’d had no contact since she left. How had she known where he was? 

‘The duel…’ Elizabeth replied, swallowing thickly acutely aware of both their invasive gazes before continuing. 'I heard you got hurt and I… needed to make sure you were okay. Liam said-‘ 

‘Liam?’ 

‘Yeah he came to my brother’s apartment-‘ 

‘He came New York?’ Drake’s brain raced to put the pieces together. The night of the duel brought back so many unpleasant memories but through it all he remembered that Liam hadn’t been there. During at the Costume ball… Maxwell had said it was official business… Maxwell would never lie to him, would he?   

‘He did.’ 

Drake dropped his gaze to the floor, his mouth tasting sour and his voice laced with months worth of resentment when he spoke. ‘I guess you’re with him now aren’t you?’ 

Elizabeth opened her mouth to argue but something ugly reared inside him, determined to make her hurt just like he’d hurt when he’d seen her kissing Liam but Savannah beat him to it.

‘You’ve got no fucking right to be in there you know?’ she snapped at Elizabeth, stalking up to the taller woman, anger radiating off her entire frame. 'After all the shit you put him through.' 

'Savannah I can handle this,’ Drake interrupted but she ignored him, her voice raising in pitch and volume. 

 'Why can’t you just stay away!?' 

Elizabeth seemed to shrink further into herself, backing away from her. 'I couldn’t okay?! I can't stay away when-' 

’Then why you come back huh? To rub it in? Was leaving not painful enough for him? Or did you just have to see it through, to have the final laugh now that you-'

‘That not it at all,’ She cried out, immediately wincing as she raising a hand to her head, grimacing in pain as she turned to face Drake, eyes imploring him to listen. ‘Drake it was because of you! Back in New York, I could never get you out of my head. I tried to forget you, to move on but I couldn’t. The memories, our memories of you, of us wouldn’t stop no matter how hard I tried to block them out. And when I heard you got hurt-‘ Tears began to roll down her face as Elizabeth clutched her head in pain. 

‘Save the tears for someone who actually cares princess,’ His sister was yelling now at full volume. 

 'Savannah could you… please-‘ 

‘Sav cool it.' Drake attempted to step in again, his voice a warning now as he struggled to get off the bed, pain arcing through his side.  

‘Cool it? You’re asking me to cool it and this bitch just gets off scot free?’ She whirled back to Elizabeth, grey eyes flashing with rage. 'Puh-lease! After all the shit you put my brother through, you don’t get to ask You don’t get to traipse back here and suddenly decide that you want him in your life again!'

Elizabeth’s face twisted in anger. ‘Oh but you do?’

Neither of them saw the movement but there was no mistaking the sound of Savannah’s hand making contact with his ex-fiancee's right cheek, the stinging echoing throughout the small hospital room. 

 ‘Savannah what the fuck!?’ Drake screeched, eyes wide as he regarded his sister, horrified at how smug she looked. His eyes flew back to Elizabeth, who was clutching her cheek in pain, the skin underneath already red and swelling up. He made to say something but Elizabeth held a hand out to stop him. 

 ‘No its fine,' she gulped. ‘I-I..’ She didn’t wait to finish her sentence before dashing out the door, her sobs echoing behind her. 

Drake stared after her retreating figure, frozen in shock what had just happened. Suddenly his mind kicked him into action. 

 ‘What the hell are you doing?’ Savannah demanded, glaring at him as he struggled to get to his feet. 

‘What the fuck does it look like?’ He growled. ‘I’m going after her. I'm not about to let her go again.’ 

His sister’s face twisted into an ugly look. ’She doesn’t deserve it. No one came after me when I left..’ 

‘How is this suddenly about you?’ Drake snapped, ignoring the pain in his side as he struggled to move into a sitting position on the edge of the bed. 'You know what I don’t have the fucking time to deal with this right now.’ 

‘You’ll never catch up to her,’ Savannah replied bitterly, watching him rip off the hospital gown and slip on a pair of pants over his boxers. 

 ‘Watch me.’ With that he struggled to his feet, sliding on his shoes, gritting his teeth at the strain on his wound. 

 ‘She’s not worth it Drake.’ 

He paused in the doorway to glance back at where she was glaring at him from inside the room, grey eyes still brewing with anger. He matched her gaze, looking her fiercely in the eye. 

‘She’s worth everything.’

Drake barely heard the door slam and Maxwell’s gasp of surprise before blindly turning down a hallway, hoping to find Elizabeth. He called out her name, over and over as he staggered forward unsteadily, hospital parsons and staff of all kinds staring at him in annoyance but he didn’t care. He couldn’t let her go again… not this time. 

Attempting to navigate the busy corridors for a glimpse of her grey cardigan, his shoulder glanced off a protrusion on the wall, jerking him back painfully. He reflexively brought an arm to the bandage on his side and found it wet with blood but he forced himself to go on, calling out her name with renewed vigour until red began to fringe on the edges of his vision. 

 ‘NO, no, no, no,’ Drake muttered to no one in particular. ‘I need to find her, I have to tell her…’ His head swam and he could barely see until finally he sank to one knee, depleted of the strength to even hold himself up, vaguely aware of the hospital staff surrounding him, waving them off as he willed himself to get up but couldn’t as the darkness enveloped him once again. 

I need to tell her Iove her..

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[travelguideworldtour-blog]

10 Best Places to Visit in St. Kitts & Nevis

St. Kitts and Nevis is a Modest Caribbean island country in the Caribbean Sea, located between Antigua and St. Maarten. Mount Liamuiga dominates at the island’s centre its landscape.

The coastline ranges from rocky shores to nice white sandy Caribbean and curious black lava sand, whereas the subtropical rain forest is full of tropical flora and flora.

Old farm homes, beautiful beaches, lush vegetation, and historical towns just such as the funding Basseterre create a trip to St. Kitts and Nevis an authentic joy.

  Basseterre

Basseterre is the capital of Nevis and St Kitts and also something of the earliest cities in the Caribbean, as it was set with the French, dating back into the 17th century. After that it passed to British control and now could be the island nation’s biggest market.

People to St Kitts and shore hotels and peaks might pass or utilize basse terre as the gate way, however the town is teeming with history. Walk in the colonial-inspired roads and see the museums that are to find out more about Nevis and St Kitts.

  Nevis Botanical Gardens

One will be taken by A trip from Charlestown and its own luxury hotels into the lushly Nevis Botanical Garden. The gardens’ property belonged for your Montpelier Estates. Even the gardens feature a number of plants from throughout dolphin fountains, a cascade that is trendy, the world plus also a pool with water fountains.

The Orchid Terraces that are shaded are all home to exotic orchids a lot of bromeliads, and at least a hundred species of hands on. You will be delighted by the Tropical Vine Garden with all the odor of this stephanotis and the blossoms of this calico blossom. Research the ruins of a temple at the Rain-forest Conservatory that is mystical.

  Brimstone Hill

One of the most famous national park in every St. Kitts and Nevis, the fantastic fortress on Brimstone Hill can be a very more bold and striking case of Victorian era army structure. Your website started off as a cannon battery, designed to harry the forces that controlled Fort Charles to the headlands that a little.

However the citadel grew to be among the biggest in the Americas and climbed. To day, UNESCO labeled it and will be offering a peek in the potent engineering endeavors undertaken by powers utilizing Americans. Visitors revel in panoramas, see reenactment conflicts and will walk and come through the palisades.

  The Circus

The Circus is really actually just a circular street intersection located in the center of Basseterre and has been established after the”Great Fire,” which destroyed a lot of the city at 1867. From the design, Fort Street and also Liverpool Row were built and, and to be certain the traffic could proceed just in the event there is yet another flame to protect against the spreading of fires.

With the time, the Circus was decorated with all the clock in its own centre identified as the Berkeley Memorial, honoring also a legislator Thomas Berkeley Hardtman Berkeley. property owner. Palm trees were planted and several of the above planted hurricanes as time passes destroyed trees.

The Circus has been thought to have already been built to resemble Piccadilly Circus in London. Four roads lead at direction of the points from the Circus, and also the Circus can be really just a heart of city activity throughout festivals as well as carnivals.

  Mount Liamuiga

Welcome to some whopping 1,156 metres above the Caribbean Sea at the center of St. Kitts Island, the powerful massif of Mount Liamuiga reigns supreme because the maximum summit from the federation plus something of the greatest in the whole region on top of that.

Its ridges arrive dressed in swathes of savannah that is lush and rain forest, and of course oodles of hiking paths, the majority that weave right out of the Belmont Estate for the crater rim upwards top.

Treks into rear take a day to finish and the trick, watching walkers simply take 360-degree panoramas of the sea, look right into mining woods and pass groves of blossom trees, peppered in the horizon with Saba and Antigua!

  Oualie Beach

Oualie is found only a stone’s throw from the ferry docks, where ships arriving round from St. Kitts pull-up, confronting the sand-bottomed Narrows that run submerged involving both isles. A enclave of this Nevis shore comes packed with blossoms of timber hotels and blossoms.

There are lots of palms while rows of sun beds and recliners are offered for rent, projecting their shadows in earth. Meanwhile, the rum punches and mojitos stream from the shore shack pub and you can find oodles of watersports outfitters offering rental and jetskis .

  St. Kitts Scenic Railway

Encircling that the full island of St. Kitts, from Conaree Village from the south west to Dieppe Bay Town in the north east west shore and Brimstone Hill in the west , this winding railroad was the principle way of hauling sugar-cane down by the plantations into the docks for commerce.

To day, this has been changed into inviting cruise shippers a tourist trail as well as travellers to plank the white washed and carriages and ride on the cliff-top railings. Bands serenade passengers whilst the perspectives are all second to none, shooting from also the remnants of factories and mill houses, the shores and the Dark Rocks.

  Frigate Bay

The Location of Frigate Bay straddles the 2 Areas of St. Kitts. On its northern border is where that the Marriot Resort will be discovered by passengers and the holes and fairways of this Royal St Kitts Golf Club, all washed by the Atlantic swells.

On the south (about appropriately-named South Frigate Bay) is really the where the coveted Caribbean occurs over. The coast is lined by beach bars. with parties located at a medley of both rum cries and reggae all through this week from the Shiggidy Shack.

The swimming is excellent on either side, but expect a few heavy waves across the north and warmer, straightened Carib oceans (not forgetting larger audiences ) over the southwest.

  Fairview Great House

It’s easy to understand why culture-vultures and history fans make a bee line for basse terre every year. also its grounds between Old Town Road with over 300 decades of history coalescing between your arcades along with verandas of this Fairview House.

Fully restored to mirror its own opulence, the construction also includes furnishings and also a mahogany dining room table . Additionally, there are a set of lush and magnificent gardens peppered with courtyards to ramble and coloured with an opportunity to sample. and of course trees and purchase rums!

  Wingfield-Phillips Rain Forest

Reach on Woods routes and the Sand Trails of This Wingfield-Phillips Rain Forest Nature Trail to Get an Adventure of Nevis and St Kitts’ backcountry.

Moving deep to the old growth woodlands which sprawl across the core of St. Kitts, the road moves infinite orchards of tropical trees, then delves into early deserts of stone formed by volcanic eruptions, also flits involving your cliff tops of this attractively rocky Windward shore.

There are opportunities to visit more vervet monkeys, SA-Man groves and spiny and huge sand-box trees!

                  10 Best Places to Visit in St. Kitts & Nevis

[beevean]

Sonic Unleashed

Mazuri - Savannah Citadel (Day)

[blazehedgehog]

To celebrate the legendary Sonic Unleashed, worst to best Day levels? And Happy Thanksgiving! :D

WORST

Eggmanland - Tough and way too long. Sonic Unleashed is already kind of a difficult game and this is a significant spike in challenge. My in-game timer read 60+ minutes when I finished it the first time, and it was probably closer to two real hours. Also, the lack of polish really starts to shine through, as there are places where this level drops to single digit framerates even as Sonic

Arid Sands - The monotone color scheme of “everything is sand or sandstone” creates some pretty nasty readability issues. The first falling pillar segment was impossible for me to parse until I played The Unleashed Project and understood what was really going on.

Jungle Joyride - Like Eggmanland, the lack of polish towards the end of production really shows, here. This is one of my favorite levels, but you can’t ignore the framerate problems it has. You spend uncomfortably long with your fps in the mid-to-low teens, which says nothing about the game actually freezing up for a second when the pillars fall in the water segment. It’s also kind of long, so much so it even contains both types of chase segments.

Skyscraper Scamper - You see cars down on the road driving around the highway but the game is never brave enough to let you run through traffic and dodge cars. Thankfully fixed in The Unleashed Project and Speed Highway in Sonic Generations.

Cool Edge - Ice physics suck, straight up. Sonic Unleashed doesn’t have especially tight controls anyway, and making them even more slippery is a terrible idea. Usually it’s not a HUGE problem, as Sonic magically has grip while boosting, but it can still get in the way at the worst times.

Windmill Isle - An unfortunately bland level. It kind of has to be, mind you, because it’s Sonic Unleashed’s training wheels. It can’t have any gimmicks of its own, because its gimmicks are “you are seeing everything here for the first time.”

Dragon Road - A great level dragged down by a finicky platforming segment near the end. My main issue is that there’s obviously a shortcut that’s made for you to take, but executing that shortcut isn’t reliable in a way that almost feels like a bug.

Savannah Citadel - Probably your first real test of how well you can drift. The consequences are lower than they are in Skyscraper Scamper (where a failed drift will get you killed), but still impact your performance more than they do in Rooftop Run (where a failed drift just sends you to a grind rail).

Rooftop Run - The perfect Sonic Unleashed level, probably. Maybe you could complain about the quickstep gauntlet in the middle of the stage, which plays out almost like a QTE, but I love everything about this level wholeheartedly.

BEST

And yes, happy thanksgiving to all!

[reedingreid]

Quebec City

The cobblestone streets of Quebec are like other cities filled with pedestrians and motor vehicles.

The upper city is a fortified ring with ramparts extending from a magnificent old fort now a living museum. The lower city is a seaport with plenty of dockside trappings for tourists who visit daily on the cruise lines. A well equipped day tripper with restaurant and entertainment is also available. During warm weather I imagine a plethora of boating. We saw jet skiers but few sailboats. The water is remarkable.

It’s a bigger city than St. Augustine Florida but smaller than Savannah Georgia. That’s in the antique part of the city. People are friendly and helpful. No pub crawl culture here, no chickens roaming the streets. Lots of hills and stairs, lots of missed steps by young, old , fat and fit alike.

Chateau Frontenac Hotel is as impressive as the many houses of worship and the Seminary. Only Hilton and Delta building both outside the gated walls tower over the citadel and walls and must have spectacular views.

The gardens are magnificent throughout the city. An area once home to the Huron now boasts Hibiscuses blooming in October. There are many beautiful things to buy, fabulous meals to eat and many people to chat with.

On Wednesday evening we attended the Loreena McKennitt 30 year anniversary of release of The Visit. Alas I didn’t get good pictures of the concert. The packed audience was so well behaved that it was impossible to take photos. I did cry the whole first half of the concert her voice is astonishing and still clear as a bell and crisp as finely woven linen. Not every verse from the Bonny Swans and Lady of Shallot were sung. Lady of Shallot is 12 minutes long. The encore was of course Mummers’ Dance followed by Remember Me from Book of Secrets. Her 4 piece band brilliant. All strings no drums.

We stopped for a night cap and of course there was a performance by a single guitarist singing modern tunes he was amazing.

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