Category: Travel
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I’m in the final stages of preparation for walking the Portugal route of the Camino de Santiago. I leave on Sunday evening for Porto, spend a couple of days getting myself organized and start the walk from Porto in Portugal to Santiago de Compestela in Spain on my 72’nd birthday, March 24.Daughter Diana did the…
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Have been in NO since last Saturday. Have an assignment for some client headshots in the city and came a couple of days early to see and experience Mardi Gras. V who is with me and who will be assisting me and acting as makeup person on the shoot has never been to NO before…
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We arrived in Tobago a couple of days ago, Dec 29, after a few days in Port of Spain. We have spent lots of time and trips in Barbados over the years, as this is where my mother’s family live and where I grew up and went to school, boarding at Lodge School until we…
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Have begun the process of planning a trip to Namibia and beyond next September/October. Very early to start I know but want to fly on points and Aeroplan Business Class points bookings, even this far in advance, are scarce and require convoluted itineraries.I have a ton of points that I want to burn and then…
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Dinner party was a great success. Food was very good, and as the cook I am allowed to say that, the wines were excellent and the guests were charming and witty, in English and in French. As the evening advanced and the level in the wine bottles lowered, we were given some hilarious lessons in…
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Weather has finally broken. Distinctly chillier, wind picking up and skies overcast for the first time since we arrived. Rain forecast for tomorrow but we have had a very good run so can’t complain about our change of fortune.Yesterday we were up early for a run out to Clingancourt, the very large Paris flea market…
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We went down to Cherry Beach at about 10:00 last night to watch the lunar eclipse as the moon rose over Lake Ontario. Hundreds of people there and most interesting of all were large numbers of Chinese young people, scattered about in small groups, each group lighting small candles in nylon balloons, and then as…
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Overnight and this morning the ship sailed further down the east coast of Greenland and entered Scoresby Sund, the largest fjord system in the world covering about 38,000 sq kilometers and whose arms at times extend about 350 kilometres inland from the coast.We will be visiting the Innuit village of Ittoqqortoormitt a hunting community perched…
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Arrived this morning in Kejser Franz-Josepph Fjord, East Greenland and we have sailed from 80 degrees North at the top of Spitsbergen to 73 degrees North at our present location. Because we are 7 degrees farther south we are once again seeing sunsets at about 11:30 pm and sunrise at about 3:30 am.The intercom went…
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Sailing through the Greenland Sea. Very relaxing day capped by a special Chef’s dinner. 6 course dinner and wines to match; after a day of relative inactivity, more than we wanted to face but we soldiered through it.
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