Bomma is gevallen met de fiets. Maar leeft nog. Gisteren, dinsdag rond de middag op een afgepijlde 30 km lange rondrit door de wijngaarden rond Chateauneuf du Pape kreeg ze in een afdaling een klapband op het achterwiel van haar fiets. De buitenband en een deel van de binnenband schoot van de velg en blokkeerde het achterwiel waardoor die fiets zowat onbestuurbaar werd met val tot gevolg. Tegen de Read on...
To make our day easier, we first hiked the steep and steady path up to the top of Nose Hill Park (from the John Laurie entrance). For quite a ways, snow on the path challenged our stamina and our icers. The reward at the top was staring at a pair of distant coyotes surveying the dried grasses and patches of snow, no doubt seeking prey.
One of our group that we follow the path round, and then foll Read on...
Molly Brown House Museum. Built in 1889. Occupied by Molly Brown 1340 Pennsylvania Street. National Register of Historic Places 72000269 IMG_6965
The drive up to Denver from Colorado Springs was not long. About halfway, we passed Castle Rock. The rock formation does resemble a hilltop Moorish stronghold in Spain. The vegetation of the region is similar, too, adding to the effect.
Arrival in the Read on...
The next day started off with another car ride, this time to Petra. After settling into our hotel room, my sister, dad and I went to eat lunch- gyro meat for them and falafel for me- before adventuring through the ruins of Petra. We rode horses a part of the way there and continued on foot after reaching the start of the impressive towers of rock. Contributing to the magnificence were the carvings Read on...
This is the first kosher tour from Israel to Egypt. Our day started early meeting the group and our tour leader Cindy Kline at Ben Gurion airport at 9.30am. We were travelling on a tour entitled In the footsteps of the Exodus with Rabbi Professor Joshua Berman. Rabbi Berman is professor of Tanach at university, Tel Aviv and has served on the international of the Museum of Bible, Washington D.C. Read on...
Driving West of Tropic, Utah Hwy 12 goes uphill on to the Paunsaugunt Plateau crossing Bryce Canyon National Park. (The East side of the P. Plateau is Bryce Canyon NP where the natural erosion exposes the colorful soft rock.) I turned South in the Dixie National Forest on Forest Service road 087. There are so many free legal camps there for individuals and groups. I drove by Tropic Reservoir and T Read on...
We had our morning meeting where we mostly discussed meeting that they had on Friday. At the end of each month, RWO has a meeting with all of club, and government partners. This meeting usually last 6 + hours so it was too long for them to keep translating for me which is why I did not attend. When the Club leader for the younger women I work with spoke she shared how much positive feedback she ha Read on...
One reason I wanted to stay in the Bay of Roses again was to visit Girona as have always missed it out before. Too far to travel there on our scooter from the coast but this time we have our dinky little Fiat Cinquecento.
Only an hours drive south and a little inland so we took the quiet roads route and avoided the motorways. Bob had identified a big free parking area just across the river from t Read on...
The fortunes of a seaside resort can be fickle. We know this, growing up in the North East Premier Seaside Resort. The visions of upmarket Victorian society can be lost in the mists of time. A lot changed in the period between 1870 and 1970. Two World Wars. A beach, no longer flat enough to race motorbikes or attempt land speed records. Cheap holidays to Spain and beyond. In recent years, the not Read on...
Our first stop was the Point Labatt Conservation Park to view the only permanent colony on the Australian Mainland of Australian Sea Lions who share the area with some New Zealand Fur Seals. The easiest way to tell the difference is that the fur seals are a lighter, sandy colour and the sea lions are brown. There are other differentiating characteristics, like the ear flaps on the sea lions, but w Read on...