Category: Travel
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An exciting day of adventure today. As usual, up early, packed, breakfasted and checked out by 8:30 as we were meeting our guide, Carol Karasik at the entrance gates to the Palenque ruins. Left our luggage at the hotel and walked to the roadside where we caught a combi, minivan buses that stop wherever flagged…
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Up early and out of the hotel by 8:00. We had pre-arranged a taxi the night before, expecting that the drive to the airport would be as time-consuming as our previous two night’s restaurant drives had been, but we flew to the airport and were there at 8:30 for an 11:30 flight. Not a problem…
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Lazy day today for the most part, and few pictures taken. V’s last conference day and tomorrow we fly to Palenque in Chiapas to begin our week on the road to ruins! Wasn’t keen to pay Four Seasons prices to have laundry done, cheaper to throw everything away and buy a new wardrobe so scrubbed…
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On Sundays until 14:00, one of Mexico City’s main streets, Paseo de La Reforma is closed for vehicular traffic and the roadway is taken over by bike riders, joggers and all forms of human-powered transport. It’s a very wide thoroughfare with a barrier down the middle and bikers and rollerbladers fill the lanes. Where the…
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I think this is our 4’th time in Mexico City over the last 8 or 9 years. I have always liked the city, hectic, scruffy and shining at the same time; 22+ million people spread out over a vast area, very few tall buildings, and for the most part, low to the ground. Traffic is…
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As usual, last day spent running around doing things that could and should have been done in a more relaxed fashion over the course of the last week. Flight left on time but the plane was, to put it mildly, old, tired and well past its prime. Apparently a backup that they throw into service…
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Have been planning a trip to Ireland for some time now; not going to be as long as we’d like but schedules are sometimes hard to massage. James, my son, has been working towards getting his accreditation as a CA for the last two years. He has been slugging away, doing a 4 year program…
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Last three days have been all about the conference. Breakfast at the hotel and then at the congress hall by 9. Lots of very interesting papers and symposia and an equal number during which I count my heartbeat to make sure that I’ve survived the boredom and I’m still alive. Presentation skills do matter; as…
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Slept late and caught up on jet lag deficit. Breakfast and then off to the conference to register for the program. Today is a day of pre-conference workshops but have not signed up for any so will only register for the conference and pick up my program to save time tomorrow. Took a taxi from…
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Left Toronto on Saturday night and after a two hour delay while Air Canada fixed a technical problem, we left at about midnight for Frankfurt. A/C couldn’t be turned until after we were airborne and in the midst of our current heat wave we all, passengers and cabin crew, were a sodden lot when we…
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