Computer zei : Aankomst 14:00u, hoogte 960m, 32°, 58 km, verbruik 14,7 l /100km, gemiddeld 26 km/u, reisduur 2:13 uur.
Pittige rit over de Col dAspin. Loudenvielle is een klein plaatsje in de Hautes Pyrnes met een Carrefour supermarkt, wat restaurants en wellness. Getuige de enorme bijna lege openbare parkings verwachten ze hier in het redelijk wat volk. Nu vliegen er enkel een paar parapentes Read on...
Today we head south to Eighty Mile Beach which is a hundred or so kilometres south of Broome where the Great Sandy Desert meets the Indian Ocean. It seems that there are a few different ways to spell the name of our destination - the way Ive spelt it, or Beach, or even Beach. Im not too sure why theyre so concerned about the spellings when its not really even 80 miles long; apparently its actual Read on...
Tuesday. Smooth disembarkation from our ship that took us to Antarctica then a bus to the airport. Beautiful day and I had a window seat on the east side of the plane which afforded views of steep snowy mountains, deep valleys, many mountain lakes and towns of the Andes.
Santiago. Taxi from the airport to our B&B in the Bella Vista district at the apartment of Christian, our host. The area has a Read on...
a visa application website for the United States Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA), crunched numbers from the World Travel and Tourism Council and The World Bank to determine the countries with the greatest loss of tourism revenue in the first ten months of 2020. They are as follows:
Spain: $46.707 billionFrance: $42.036 billionThailand: $37.504 billionGermany: $34.641 billionIta Read on...
Today was our last full day on the ship. In the morning, we will leave the ship and transfer directly to the airport. We fly home tomorrow. Today we until almost 8am which is almost 10am Missouri time. We ate breakfast and I packed everything. We did our tour of the ship a little late this cruise – its where we start at the bottom and go through each floor seeing everything. This is a smaller s Read on...
My latest adventure with Trekkup was a whirlwind weekend tour of Uzbekistan: Silk and Spice weekend. I had been trying to do this popular trip for over a year now (thanks Covid and Saudi!). I was a little mentally exhausted due to my busy busy work schedule, but I needed to do this one. Initially we only had 5 or 6 people sign up in our group; at first, I was bummed because this is supposed to be Read on...
Aalsmeer Flower Auction at FloraHolland. Its not only the auction itself on display, its the work to get the flowers in and out of the warehouse expeditiously. Flowers arrive for bidding in crates on conveyor belts. DSC_0932
Up bright and early Monday morning to catch the Flower Auction action at Aalsmeer. Monday was to be a day trip to Delft and The Hague. But en route to Delft, we first made a Read on...
There are mushrooms growing every and they all popped up like overnight. Cicada killer wasps everywhere and I killed this one as he dove into his hole with a Cicada. Pool days and nights with the little ones has been so much fun. It nice to have little ones under feet. Drove to Pawtucket to visit my cousin Carol Perrault. She has some amazing Bearded Dragons who she took out a feed worms to when I Read on...
Over two billion people worldwide rely on rice as their primary food. According to new study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, increasing levels of carbon dioxide are not only warming the planet, but also severely lowering the nutritional value of key crops like rice. rice has dramatically less iron, zinc, and B vitamins.
Speaking of rice and Japan: Did you know there are over 30,000 certif Read on...
Man, do not pride yourselves on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind youand that is true, alas, for almost every one of us! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russian novelist and philosopher in the 1820s)
There is a classic saying one hears from time to time; dont mess with M Read on...