Mont Saint-Michel Abbey in Normandy, France

Located in Normandy, France, the Mont Saint-Michael will take your breath away! When i looked at castles photos, the United Kingdom is the place that get on my mind first. However, after looking at the beautiful Mont Saint-Michel Abbey which is located at  Normandy in France i changed my mind! Enjoy in today’s submission!

Must Visit Castles in the UK

If there is ever a place that history buffs should visit, it is a British castle.  Going back hundreds of years, these ornate and iconic buildings were once the home to some of the most important people in the world; people who shaped the course of British history forever. If you’re visiting the United Kingdom there are a large variety of top castles that should be visited and enjoyed for both their history and beauty.

With its stunning landscape, lochs and mountains, Scotland certainly offers plenty of awe inspiring views, especially when there is a castle nestling amongst the hills. Hermitage Castle, in Scotland’s Hawick, is a top attraction to visit and has a bloody and volatile past. The huge and sinister castle, which lies in the Liddesdale valley, saw Sir William Douglas starve Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie to death in 1342, and was the location where Lord De Soulis was boiled to death for selling his soul to the devil. Meanwhile, Kilchurn Castle on the banks of Loch Awe offers breathtaking views like no other. The 15^th century building, situated in Argyll, is now a ruin but you can climb to the top of its towers, which offer beautiful panoramic views across the water. Meanwhile, if you’re using rental cars to allow you to travel at your own convenience, then Perthshire’s Edzell Castle is for exploring. Not only does the location offer unique red sandstone ruins but also a stunning Italian Renaissance garden developed in 1604.

Away from Scotland, both Wales and England also have some stunning castles which should be explored on any trip away. In Wales, the Red Castle has a fairytale appearance of dominating towers and spires. Built at the end of the 19^th century, Castell Coch remains intact and is beautifully decorated. Carreg Cennen Castle offers the opportunity to explore the spooky cave which runs below the ruin, whilst Gwynedd’s Caernarfon Castle provides one of Europe’s most impressive medieval castles.

If you’re headed in to England and want to visit some top castles within close proximity of each other, then Northumberland is an ideal spot. Warkworth Castle was created in 1200 and is an ideal trip for families; children are able to imagine people being dropped through the murder holes and imagine the scene of huge banquets in the Great Hall. Norham Castle, meanwhile, is a great collection of ruins to explore, with enough beautiful architecture remaining to allow your imagination to put the entire site together in your mind. Travelling across to Lindisfarne offers not only the stunning and majestic island castle but views across the Farne Islands and sights to Bamburgh Castle on the mainland. Bamburgh Castle is one of England’s most beautiful buildings and it is a site not to be missed.

Britain is scattered with a huge array of castles and, whether they’re complete ruins or have remained intact, they are a complete joy to explore. By visiting some of the nation’s best spots you’ll be able to engage in history like never before.

The Hearst Castle

The Hearst Castle is Californian Historical Sight mansion on Central Coast in California. It has been built between 1919 and 1947 and it is designed by architect Julia Morgan. The castle has been designed for William Randolph Hearst who died in 1951. Since that castle has been donated to the state of California and has been stated as historical park. The few things that caught our attention are indoor and outdoor pools, library, dinning area, jewel box and exterior design.

The Indoor Pool

The Library

The Outdoor Pool

The Dining Area

The Isabella Jewel Box

What Would It Look Like if the Moon was Much Closer?

We've shown some amazing moonrise timelapse images to you before, but nothing quite like this. The fictional video shows a scenario where the moon was actually orbiting around the earth at a much closer range than now, similar to the distance of the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS has a low orbit nearly 230 miles up, while the moon normally travels about 239,000 miles away from Earth.

Facebook Status Updates Are Broken

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 Currently all post updates are not publishing, and an error message appears when you try to post. This isn't the first time the social network giant is presenting technical issues for users.
This problem seems to be affecting all users according to Mashable, which tested the status update feature from several IPs and received the same scary message I did this morning:

Mashable wrote:

In addition to status update issues, we were also unable to Like anything or post photos on Facebook."

According to Web service status tracker downrightnow, Facebook is currently likely to be experiencing some service disruption.
Facebook officials have yet to comment on the issue, so stay tuned.
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Curacao

Pretty much everyone dreamt about it at least once: escape the rainy-cold winter and head to the sunny Caribbean. In the end of last year we had the unique chance to trade snowshoes and woolen hats for bathing trunks and bath towel, as our travel destination after a 10 hour long flight was Curacao.
Curacao is a 444 km² large island, that geographically belongs to South America. Until two years ago Curacao was the largest island of the Netherlands Antilles. You’ll still sense this walking through the streets of the capital Willemstad, as you get a more European than Caribbean feeling. The temperatures are rising up to 30 degrees during daytime and cools down to ca. 25 degrees in the evening. So you should rather leave pants and coats at home.

My cultural expectations on a Caribbean island were not too high: palms, the sea, sandy beaches and an all-exclusive hotel complex next to the other. And of course you may find this on Curacao but only in a small part, as the rest is pure adventure. No place is overran by tourists. So you can enjoy your experiences to the fullest and won’t have to share them with twenty other tourist groups. Breathtaking bays that are usually stuffed with busses and salesmen are completely deserted. On the streetcorners one will find abandoned villas, that could just as well be the filmset of a Hollywood production. Who likes to take pictures as we do will have major troubles to choose the right motif as there new and exciting things are waiting around almost every corner.
Although the sandy beach and the perfectly tempered sea were a huge temptation we decided to explore most of the island by car to capture our adventures with our cameras. Enjoy the first impressions of our trip. Another photo series as well as a video will follow soon.

The Shark Whisperer

Sharks have a reputation of eating pretty much anything ranging from fish and crustaceans to sea turtles, dolphins and other sharks. Some have even devoured old cans, license plates and other inedible objects in their quest to feed. Nevertheless M.K. from the mb! Magazine went on a scuba diving course with the predators of the seas.

Crates of bait in the water release irresistible odors as the slick is ever expanding with the current. Soon the first dark shadows appear under the boat and when the dorsal fins start breaking the surface behind the boat, the pool is open. There is a moment of unease when slipping off the stern, my first concern being not to land on a shark. By now around 30 Lemon and Caribbean Reef sharks circulate below us. Assuming a position as close to the bait crates as possible, I watch the sharks following the current to the source. All myths about a drop of blood creating a feeding frenzy are exposed as products of fantasies when the sharks calmly and even gently swim circles around me. They appear as curious as I am and seem not to mind a little rub to their bodies. Despite lengths up to three meters, these are not at all mindless killing machines and their peaceful grace is an eye-opening experience for all expecting to be eaten up.
Their majestic size is matched only by their calm and graceful movements. Inquisitively they move in, their large dark brown and black eyes screening their surroundings, displaying an uncanny awareness and thinking ability. A rub against the dome and gentle exploratory bites to the camera deliver the up-close pictures I came for. Carefully extending my hand, I nearly get to experience the full length on the underbelly of a large Tiger shark with my fingers. At no moment do I feel threatened by this car-sized apex predator but instead the sense of experiencing something truly special overcomes me. The beauty and perfect design of the sharks instill a sense of calm admiration and were it not under water, my jaw certainly would have dropped.