Central Florida—land of palm trees, cool breezes, and 5 short rainstorms every afternoon. Also home to the most theme parks in the world. On Saturday, I saw several palm trees, enjoyed the cool breezes, and only endured 2 of those rainstorms. And my faithful readers will be happy to know that I successfully avoided all the theme parks. In these Covid times, only one thing gets me to travel: coll Read on...
A few years ago I wrote a blog about my dear old dad. I chose to write about him, and not my mother, because he was a more colourful character. He had a tragic childhood (losing his father at an early age, then being separated from his mother and brought up by a relative) and, as an adult, he was very much his own man – a deep thinker, a skilled craftsman (expert at woodwork, building, electric Read on...
The drive from Glen Erin (Bowen) to Sarina was a tad over 200km and a good bit of it was through sections of roadwork – up and down the coast there is a lot of work being done to duplicate the Bruce Highway, which is well needed as it carries a lot of heavy traffic including some rather large trucks. Despite sections of stop/start traffic it was a pretty drive; lots of mountains, lots of sugar c Read on...
Probablement que ce soir, je vais faire un texte plus court que dhabitude, et mettre plus de photos. Dune part ce sera le plus explicite de la journe, et dautre part, a vous vitera les fautes. Je vous ai entendu tous les jours: tiens il en a encore fait une ici. Je me concentre trop sur le texte, les formules, au dtriment de lorthographe. En me relisant, jen corrige un nombre considrable, mais je Read on...
Patricks son joined him for the evening walk. Finn is 14 and a charming young man, he demonstrated how to make yourself bigger if across a bear, he also showed the bear spray he always carries. At the moment the bears are sleeping but they will soon be waking from their winter slumber.
Lake Louise was first conceived by the railway at the end of the 19th century, as a vacation destination to lure Read on...
Saturday July 2 – I wasnt sure what to do with the weather today. It was windy and forecasted to rain, but eventually it still wasnt raining, so I decided to do a walk to the northern village part of the island which is not far. This time I wanted to walk around more in the area where people live. I only brought my waterproof camera just in case I got caught in a storm. I was also on a mission t Read on...
With the coffee and croissant refreshing me I was ready for the next part of my morning . It was only 10.15 and I knew that the major service would take until lunchtime . I needed to waste another hour at least before I could find a cafe for my early lunch with yet another double espresso on the cards . If I had not been called up by then to tell me the car was ready I had already earmarked a walk Read on...
The morning started nice with everyone sleeping until 7:30 and even a full night of no kids needing one of the parents to sleep with them. After the kids had milk we all got dressed and got into the van to go to a restaurant called Ernies, which was at the public clubhouse of the PGA West country club. This place had special memories of 20 years of Susie and George owning a house and being members Read on...
David Bowie spent one of the most fruitful periods of his career living in Berlin with fellow musician Iggy Pop. During this time, he kept himself separated from drugs and alcohol in a city divided. Bowie knew a different Berlin than that which exists today.
We started our tour with Martin at Potsdamer Platz for many years the location of a ghost station. When the Berlin Wall was built on August Read on...
Pour rpondre ceux qui se posent la question pourquoi ltranger cette anne, et pas la France, je rpondrais que dans ma prime jeunesse (et elle est de plus en plus loin) jtais reprsentant, que mon secteur ctait la France entire, que jai travaill dans 94 dpartements pendant plus de 2 ans. Le 95me ctait la Corse, et mon patron qui se la rservait.
A propos jai retrouv mon appareil photo, qui mavais te Read on...