Three groups of four walkers each set off at intervals to make up our city walk this week. In Griffith Woods, autumn surrounded us: dried grass, bare trees, traces of old snow, hidden animals. Only tiny Wood Violets twinkled spring colour.
The excellent path, groomed but natural, cherished our feet for most of the way west along multiple strands of the Elbow River. The still water shone with refl Read on...
Planning a trip to Panama City was a bit like doing a jigsaw; post pandemic, most tourist attractions are only open a few days a week and putting together an itinerary which incorporated everything I wanted to do was fiddly. Then, I caught covid and we had to change all our flights. The result – our only full day for sightseeing is a Monday, when everything is closed. No matter, we will spend th 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...
Weve both had a decent nights sleep and Ians cold is feeling a bit better. Good job as there are no chemists open till Monday (the one in the last campsite close at noon on Friday) and weve discovered that they dont sell cough medicine in supermarkets here!
We decide to take advantage of the campsite shower before leaving. There is just one shower and one loo each for ladies and gents so there is Read on...
According to Historic Texas, members of a Baptist Church from South Carolina moved and settled in what became the Sardis Community in Cherokee County in about 1848. In 1854 they organized the Sardis Baptist Church. Their early baptisms happened in the Neches River and also Boxs Creek. Little is known about their first Sardis Baptist Church building. The second church structure served as a church a Read on...
The backstreets reveal some hidden treasures of buildings. Luckily Luxembourg didnt get dismantled too much in WW2.
Were just treading water at the moment. Tim went in to work today. No, seriously, he did, and Sue and I were left to amuse ourselves.
My most important, and task of the day was to mail a license to Switzerland, so a friend of Tims could continue to drive.
The list of handyman chor Read on...
When I was on the Railway in 2014, I was offered a free trip to Kiev, Ukraine. I met several Americans on the first part of my journey. We drank bad vodka, warm beer, and bad food each evening. A lady from Michigan was kind enough to share her car and driver from my hotel in downtown Vladivostok to the train station. After four or five days, we arrived in Irkutsk, the gateway to Lake Baikal. It t Read on...
A beautiful morning with a gentle breeze and the sound of the waves from the Indian Ocean woke us. In South Africa this time of the year sun rise in already at 4:30 and it is easy to be early out and about. We used our free day to enjoy the beach and the beautiful resort build in this lush, green and remote site on the Wild Coast. The Wild Coast is a section of the coast of the Eastern Cape. The Read on...
Cest dans des conditions un peu spciales que ce blog, dans la voiture en attendant lembarquement, sur ma tablette (jai horreur de taper l dessus) connect en Bluetooth sur mon tlphone.
Une bonne nuit, et ce matin je pte la forme. Comme la journe va tre longue, en consultant le guide de la rgion, je vois que tout prs de Bari, il y aurait deux villages intressants voir. Comme tous les jours le mme Read on...
(I have now finished the group tour but had no time to write a blog & no signal to send it anyway so I am trying to bring them up to date in the next few days, so apologies if thick & fast! On the other hand, they may not go at all, so fingers crossed)
Daniel, the wildlife expert ( mainly herpetology, the little things), and Harry, (Hery), the Malagasy tour guide/director met me at the airport. T Read on...