Category: photography
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We left Reykjavik on Tuesday night, we have been sailing steadily since then and arrived at Torshavn, Faroe Islands this morning Sunday at 7am. At 10:30 last night we passed the lighthouse on the outermost Faroe island, whose name I can’t remember, and we were demonstrably in Faroe waters. Our expected arrival time was around…
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Met the ship at the dock at 6pm along with the other 11 people will be shipmates for the next 3 weeks. A very cosmopolitan group; 6 Dutch, 1 Parisian Frenchman, 1 Australian, 1 Scot, 1 American, and 1 Canadian, me. The captain and the cook are both Dutch, the First Mate is Belgian and…
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Left Toronto for Reykjavik on Sunday evening, wanting to get to Iceland a day early to find my bearings and get acclimatized. Could have and should have flown Iceland Air but in an effort to burn my remaining Aeroplan points I flew Air Canada, very weird flight. Due to leave Toronto at 9pm and arrive…
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It’s been a while since my last post, March in Kenya to be exact, and I’m going on the road again, or more precisely, on the sea.One of the places that I’ve wanted to visit for a very long time are the Faroe Islands, which for those of you who aren’t quite sure, are located…
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Time has passed and we have left the Mara and are in the village of Shela on Lamu Island, a small but very happening spot in the Indian Ocean off Kenya’s northern coast, but more on this later. Since I last added to the blog the rains appear to have arrived; the rainy season usually…
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Up at 5:30 and on the road by 6 aiming for the area of the marsh where we had seen the lionesses fighting for the submerged water buffalo the previous afternoon. On the road is a term used very loosely, since there are no roads, as there are no fences, across the wide Mara plains.…
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On Saturday afternoon, a hot sunny day, we drove into the Masai Mara Park to engage in the other side of our wildlife experience. For our morning drive John, our Masai guide and driver, Virginia and me, all in our Land Rover had the whole conservancy to ourselves. In the afternoon we expected that the…
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Just got home from a couple of days in New York, staying with friends David and Jane on the Upper West Side. Fabulous time as always but the crowds on the sidewalks on 5th Ave were claustrophobic-making and they got worse as you neared Trump’s Tower of Babel.
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After last night’s walk to the Treasury at Petra by Night, V did not feel confident in her ability to walk the distances required to explore the site properly, about 5k to get to the end of the track which passes through the Siq, past the Treasury and and past a number of tombs and…
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In the evening, after yesterday’s post, we went out to dinner at Fakhr-El Din, a Lebanese restaurant that had been recommended to us before we left on our trip and then was subsequently recommended by Bashar at the Intercontinental. V had called the hotel from Toronto pre-trip and had had the concierge make a reservation…
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