We had an early start today, with our pick up scheduled for 7am. The van was a little late, and then went to another spot to pick up more people, where we ended up waiting for over an hour. Finally we collected up our group of 18 (about half from Portugal, then Italians, French, Americans and us Canadians) and headed out.
We had a long day of driving. We made a couple of photo stops as we travele Read on...
Covid boredom brought four friends together where I was staying at Cloud9, to do a themed cooking night at weekends. All of us have boats in the shipyard and with the struggles getting staff though this time means were all over our time! Doni from Sweden, Frances from Rotuma in Fiji, Brent from New Zealand and moi from Scotland.
This was by far the best out of all of them, Brent cooked New Zealan Read on...
Our guide tonight was Andrea, we wandered through the narrow streets of Venice with its 15 centuries of history.
As we wandered we listened to the tales about the sinister deeds and tragic ends of the figures who once walked the streets—some of whom are believed to still wander as restless spirits.
In the late 16th century, a nobleman called Loredan fell in love and married the Doges niece. He Read on...
Phetchaburi was always on our list for this trip, and a few days there got us back on schedule just in time to head back to the capital and get ready to leave Thailand! Thanks to the likes of bucketlistblog we had an idea what the town had to offer. Have to say though, we were very impressed and glad we decided to stay for three nights. This is the sort of place that backpackers would have been se Read on...
This morning is our first full day in Costa Rica. I am awake at 5 am (which is actually 11 in the UK and my stomach). 2 hours till breakfast and Im starving.
At 6 it gets light and I can brave going outside to sit in the garden without standing in anything. Its a pretty little garden with a gazebo and plunge pool set among the shrubs.
Breakfast is served in a clearing in the garden and is very t Read on...
This post months late, because its about summer, and summer ended here about 3 months ago, but I did really mean to post about our Chilean summer vacation because well, its all been part of this experience of being an expat, but mainly being in a pandemic wherein not everything fundamentally, makes sense, or goes even remotely as expected. I think when I last left you, wed recently spent Christma Read on...
This is the Texas State Railroad, Christmas edition on December 7, 2019. This railroad operates year round with full time employees; except in December where it is the Polar Express using temporary employees (except engineers and brakemen) that know little about the railroad. Since this is geared for children they stop at the North Pole to see Santa and elves singing and dancing. Then Santa enters Read on...
Thank goodness there is a thing called a pause button. Timely to hit it and put to one side for a moment.
Fortunately, in the current level 3 scenario of our lock down, one is able to spread those wings just a bit. A week ago, we did just that along with close friends, Brett and Lorraine Wilson Jones, when we left the confines of our homes for the first time in weeks and headed for the Schotia S Read on...
The Adventure Mayas minivan by to pick us up at 8:15 to go on our excursions, so room service was scheduled an hour earlier. Room service came even earlier than our alarms and woke us up with another loud buzzer at our doorbell. A family of 8 from Kansas from our hotel as well as another couple from another hotel were going too, so we packed 12 of us into the van and drove towards Tulum. We passed Read on...
Fr den Samstag hatte ich mir in Berlin zwei neue Attraktionen vorgenommen: das und der Flughafen BER. Im ersteren besuchte ich zwei Ausstellungen und die sonnige Dachterrasse. Hier fallen insbesondere die historisch aussehende Fassade und die neuen hellen Rume und Sichtachsen auf. Viele der Prsentationen sind auch kostenlos. Vor dem Stadtschloss wird auch gerade am Denkmal zur Deutschen Einheit g Read on...