Before we left home, Id read about buying picnic stuff on Rue Cler, a pedestrian street then taking everything to have a picnic at the Eiffel Tower. Zaya was so excited about doing this after I told her about it.
We had to 1st get our Covid test before entering the UK so had found a place for testing. We got our tests then hopped on a bus to the Eiffel Tower.
The Rue Cler was within walking dis Read on...
Many cultures memorize their family trees, first passing them on orally, and then documenting them in sagas or in written text such as St. Matthew did in Chapter One of his Gospel which lists the 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus. I am blessed having descended from cultures that valued their genealogies; including the Scots, the Scandinavians, and the various tribes of Western, Central, and Eas Read on...
We were wrong in our last Blog when we said Hawker was the coldest place on Earth, Its not. Peterborough is!
Before we got away though, we had another drama. Monday night as we prepared the van for a morning departure Greg was ferrying items from the 4x4 and Joan was inside packing away, when Greg announced the door handle had broken off. Really! Lucky Joan was inside because there was no way we Read on...
It was in the summer of 2016 when I visited the Trinidad History Museum and received a great tour. I got entry and a full tour of the Baca House and the Bloom Mansion for free. (Now they have a small entry fee.) I started with the main museum with the exhibits I posted in this blog. The tour of the houses are available with the museum guide only. Outside they have a nice garden where visitors can Read on...
Susan and I thought Solomons, Maryland, would be a pleasant place for another circumscribed day trip. I had head of it, but not visited. Certainly easy to reach from home, only about 1 1/2 hours away via the Capital Beltway and Maryland 4. Solomons is at the tip of a peninsula where the Patuxent River flows into the Chesapeake Bay. Fishing, especially crabbing, had been the industry in Solomons fo Read on...
The sanding of the hardwood floors was the last step of readying my master suite. Heres my carpenter, Leonidas, surviving the process! Thanks to Cynthia for loaning me her ShopVac!
Im free!! Free of the constant banging of the worker with whom I shared a cement block wall for five years! My new master suite and it is a true. Is it possible that the finished project is even more beautiful and func Read on...
I left Quepos for Uvita, a small beach town further south into Costa Rica known for the Marino Ballena National Park.
At Uvita, I was staying in a hostel just next to the park. I reached and headed straight to the national park (its a Marine park with a beautiful beach and the famous whales tail). There is an entry fee of $6 to the park, most people dont like paying to go to a beach, but in my mi Read on...
Day 579 - As I walked I wondered if this would ever end . Covid that is . It was a miserable day. The sky was steely . The clouds so thick they obscured everything apart from one sliver of silver where the sun was trying its best to shine through. A real silver lining in a sea of grey. I could not hear any birdsong . They were keeping out of the wet and the cold . The butterflies had long gone and Read on...
Vous aurez reu ce mme titre de blog mais sans rsutat ni de photos ni de texte... Travel Blog draille nouveau... je tente ma chance plusieurs fois et espre quun jour cela fonctionnera !!!
Cest ainsi que pour notre dernire journe ici, le camping se trouvant au Sud de Cortina, nous prenons la route qui nous y amnera nouveau Cortina, mais qui par aprs nous dirigera vers le Pazzo Falzarego, tout en Read on...
Day 68 - another day of semi -lockdown . Test and Protect has started in Scotland . Track and Trace has started in England . Will that work ? Somehow we doubt it . Walking round a supermarket who have I been next to? I will not know them. How can I tell the NHS who I walked by, who I stood by, their names, their addresses and their phone numbers . It feels an ill thought out scheme . Premier Leagu Read on...