De toutes les villes que jai visit, elle gardera toujours une place particulire. La mtropole de la niche au pied des montagnes sur les rivages du dtroit de Gorgie, a un charme certain qui attire migrants et touristes par milliers. Malgr un cot de la vie ahurissant (le prix moyen des maisons dpasse ici le million de dollars), la grande qualit de vie que lon y retrouve, le dcor splendide, la mental Read on...
Our train trundled on slowly into London . The information board and the on board system gave out messages from time to time about which station up next ; which station we were stopped out: the end of the line. We arrived at Wembley stadium station and disembarked together with a large group of town supporters all resplendent in red and white . Different shirt tops marked each era for the club . S Read on...
After a decent nights sleep, we both woke refreshed after the long day we experienced yesterday. Breakfast, normally a hot and cold buffet, was waitress service only. Menus were placed at each table and orders taken accordingly. It was basic but adequate. At least with this service, one can exercise a certain amount of portion control. Neither of us had about this new procedure.
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Day 305 - Rain in biblical proportions . It started yesterday morning .It feel heavily. The deluge from the sky came on the back of Storm Christoph. We knew it . The sky blackened and the rain fell in sheets . Not what we wanted living by a river which up to now had been benign . It rained until lunchtime . It continued through the afternoon . Our phone rang and a message came - we had moved from Read on...
We started this morning with a stroll around Melrose. We followed the sign to the swing bridge which was underwhelming. We wandered along the Chicken run/Weaving camels/Farmers freewheeling fun track mountain bike tracks until we reached an open view of Mount Remarkable. At last we managed to take a photo of the mountain with the sun shining on it rather than from behind it.
We walked back into Read on...
In our last missive I decried the residual resistance to vaccine uptake in parts of the wealthy west, as well as its hesitant to their juveniles. Even more pertinently we worried about the limited availability and constrained distribution of vaccines within developing countries. Such were likely to see new, potentially more threatening, variants emerge. And sadly so it proved. Most of Africa trai Read on...
This morning we left our hotel at 8:35 and 79 degrees and headed west to meet the Mississippi River. Our target was Vicksburg and our plan was all about the Great River Road. Before we ever got to Vicksburg, we hooked up with the entry point to the road and we followed the signs north. We drove for miles and miles through the Mississippi Delta, the most lush and fertile farmland one might ever see Read on...
When I am on the road, fellow travelers often ask what my best trips or experiences might be. Here is an old list. I will make an updated list as well. Here is my top ten or more, in no particular order, but with a few Visiting Barry the V in Cape Town and going on four safaris*Super Bowl 47 in Nawlins with Dirty PatA top secret visit to the CIA in VirginiaPeak bloom day for cherry blossoms in the Read on...
Wake up ready for my cup of char and Mike says I am not sure if your milk has gone off - so I say give it here, I smell it and it seems okay so then stupid or what, I decide to taste it and get a mouthful of gone off milk. You would think I would have some sense, but no, I still have no sense and now a mouthful of gone off milk. So first thing I say is lets find some milk - this is an amazing fact Read on...
Its time to say adios to Portugal, its only been a few days, but its time to head back to southern Spain. Im not sure why I thought we were going to today, but because I did, we thought it would be cold and we wore jeans. But we are actually going inland to Sevilla, were its hot! When we got off the bus it was 37C or 98F and that is certainly hot, even by Florida standards! But were now true Flor Read on...