On Friday I went to meet with Days for Girls whos office is outside of Kampala, the capital. This is a that was started in 2008 in the US. Their focus is period poverty: how many days of school or work would you miss each month if you didnt have access to proper menstrual supplies? It started with kits being made in the US and brought to those in need by humanitarian groups. DfG is now trying to Read on...
Two cities, Buda and Pest, have the Danube river flowing between them. Today we walked 15 kilometres from Pest to Buda and back again. My legs are killing me now. We visited the city market, then the cave church, slowly hiked up to the fortress, visited the palace museum, road a bike on Margaret island, and more. I carried both my camera and iPad, but I didnt bring the attachment to upload photos Read on...
Day 99 - a turning point . Tomorrow is a big day . The start of Week 15 and the last few days of June . Sunday morning . Another breakfast . Another walk and another view out of the same old window . Sunday is always a good walking day . I set off out . The rain had been falling lightly overnight . This morning it had stopped but the wind had picked up. The leaves on the trees were blowing . Not g Read on...
Let me give you a tip, never ask your wife where she would like to go for your 40th Wedding Anniversary ! Her answer, Always wanted to go to Tahiti
So in March 2019, I booked for us to travel with Air Tahiti Nui, from Sydney, via Auckland to Papeete. This was a really good flight and also gave us the opportunity to fly onwards to Los Angeles to visit our daughter and me the opportunity for anothe Read on...
Tout dabord mes excuses pour vous avoir dit demain, je ne sais pas o javais la tte, alors que je savais trs bien que je ne partais que mardi matin. Les mystres de lge qui se mettent en place ???.
Jai quitt Lyon ce matin avec la fracheur, arriv dans les Terres Froides, aprs Bourgoin (40km de Lyon) javais le sentiment de partir au ski. 12°, un pais brouillard, et une nouvelle dcouverte des foncti Read on...
Today we have two choicesvery short day or very long day. We decide on the formerI think we have time! Two days have been set aside for Reykjavik at the end of our tripwe suspect well only need one and anyway, its easy back another time to see Reykjavik but I doubt well be back to the fjords any time soon.
We set off reasonably early. Icelanders do not seem to get going very early and its the bes Read on...
A change of plan at dinner (yes, another one) had us heading for either Mulwala or Yarrawonga today. Either way it meant we hadd 100kms to travel so we needed to be up early and away before both the heat and wind got up.
We did pretty good getting on the road by about 7:10am. Rather than follow the main highway out of town we chose the scenic route around the river, only to notice after about a k Read on...
This is the third and last blog entry from my trip in Australia 25 years ago. Here I will present a mix of some lesser known sites, a few somewhat more known sites and two sites that are absolutely iconic.
Alice Springs is right in the centre of Australia and is popular among tourists much thanks to its proximity to the iconic Uluru/Ayers Rock. But there are also plenty of things to see in Alice Read on...
I had originally planned to spend two nights in Thunder Bay figuring Id be tired after two long days of driving but felt OK last night so I checked ahead in Winnipeg to be sure I could get in a day early and cancelled my second night in Thunder Bay. When I did it, it was supposed to rain there today anyway. Of course that changed by this morning but the plans were already changed. When I arrived a Read on...
Speaking of alcohol consumption, here is something we are proud of here in California. As interest in craft beer has risen, so have the number of successful small breweries. In 2019, there were more than 8,000 craft breweries in the United States. California has the most with 907 breweries, more than doubling second place Colorado, which has 425. like New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania better Read on...