This blog entry is being written months after our Fall 2020 New England Trip. It was our first vacation amid Covid and quite the experience, some good some bad. I was also in recovery from retina detachment surgery so was pretty most of the trip.
Of course, it is not the vacation we had planned. We had previously rescheduled our Ireland/Scotland Trip to be taken at this time. However, Covid was s Read on...
Koh Tao was not on our radar for this trip. From Ko Samui we had expected to return to the mainland and head south. We knew of Koh Tao because our good friends Andrea and Mark from Happy Days Travel Blog were supposed to go there to look after a hotel for a few months but got in the way and it never happened. We hadnt realised how close Koh Tao was to Ko Samui so we got in touch with Frank and a Read on...
Peter the Great was designing the city as another Amsterdam & Venice with canals instead of streets. Initially, there were only about ten bridges constructed in the city, mainly across ditches and minor creeks. By Peters plans, in the summer months, the citizens were supposed to move around in boats, and in the winter months when the water froze to move in sledges. However, after Peters death, new Read on...
We were woken up by Frank at midnight after having a few hour long nap that was too short but thankfully pretty restful considering. The wind was howling and it was painfully cold making it hard to get started, but luckily it wasnt raining, which really was all I had hoped for. As much as we didnt want to get out of our warm sleeping bags the summit called. We quickly drank some coffee and ate som Read on...
Nadat Karen de auto gisteren heel zorgvuldig had ingeladen, was ze klaar om te vertrekken met Nore naar de stadscamping in Middelburg.
Op de koop toe was ons vader die dag zijn 500.000 uur alive and kicking gaan vieren met vrienden en familie, dus ook daar kon ik achter fluiten.
Karen en Nore waren in de namiddag samen met bobon en bompie alvast Middelburg gaan verkennen en al enkele koren gaan Read on...
Every human has four endowments; conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom. the power to choose, to respond, to change. - Stephen Covey
Someone once said Every sunset is an opportunity to reset and if there is one critical step, we all need to take in these repetitive, exhausting times, it is the need to reset. Our minds have numbed as we st Read on...
Je ne vous apprendrais rien en vous disant que cette anne est et pour ce voyage jen fais le dur constat.
Habituellement pour ce premier blog je vous prsente le projet de voyage envisag. Me rendre au sud de lItalie en 3 semaines environ, traverser lAdriatique, pour lAlbanie ensuite la Grce et revenir, par ce que javais volontairement laiss de ct lan dernier, longer la cte Adriatique. Avec sur ma r Read on...
Today ends an era, and begins a new one. Scary, exciting, energizing and one I am looking forward doing as a next chapter in my professional life. Effective today, I have retired from the Deloitte US Firm and on July 21, will be joining the Deloitte Ireland Firm. Building new teams, engaging new and old clients is one of my favorite things, and I will get to do that and more in my new role.
Howev Read on...
Thuy and I have just spent four days on Phu Quoc Island. I knew it would be wet; I knew the sea would be unswimmable; I knew there would be little to do with the rain falling; but I needed a break from the monotony of city life. Phu Quoc would have fresh sea air, trees and flowers, no Russian or Chinese tourists (thanks to Covid); it would be a relaxing and therapeutic break after my labours of th Read on...
Gibbs Hill Lighthouse. Cast iron lighthouse built in1 1844. the lighthouse tower is 118 feet (36 m), though its location on the hill enables its light to be at 354 feet (108 m) above sea level. IMG_7299
Carnival Legend docked at Kings Wharf at the Royal Naval Dockyard early on Wednesday morning. Susan and watched the docking while having breakfast on the Lido Deck. A beautiful sunny morning. The Read on...