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Our Excellent Australian Adventure – Part 4
By the time that I publish this part of our Australian Adventures, quit a bit of our trip will have occurred and we’ve been pretty much offline through most of it so I’m writing a lot of this section during a 7 hour bus trip on route to our next destination but still within the Outback part of the trip.…
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Our Excellent Australian Adventure – Part 3
When we were leaving Sydney to move to the next phase of our trip in the Melbourne area, we all knew that this part of Our Excellent Australian Adventure was going to be quite unique. Why so? Well we were going to be doing something that (for Barb and I) we have only done once in all of the years…
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Our Excellent Australian Adventure – Part 2
We thought that it was never going to end. I’m talking about the 14 hour flight from San Francisco to Sydney. There was one point where I was thinking to myself that the flight must have been half over because it seemed to have been quite a lot of doing nothing by this point. But when I checked my watch…
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Our Excellent Australian Adventure – Part 1
Most of the time when Barb and I travel on our Excellent Adventures the planning starts up to a year in advance, sometimes even longer. It’s not unusual for us to book flights 10 months before the departure date. I was thinking about this that has our Excellent Australian Adventure planning standing out so much of a contrast as we…
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Barb and Baden’s Québec Winter Adventure
Around this time of year, many people that we know was planning trips down to sunny destinations. Places like Mexico and the Bahamas were being mentioned. Where were Barb and I planning on going? Well, let’s just say that when we arrived on Thursday it was 28 degrees colder than when we left Vancouver. Do we know something that everyone…
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Weihnachtsmarkt in Vancouver
Barb and I have only spent one Christmas away from home together which was in December of 2001 when we went to Germany. For me it was my first time in Germany and being there at Christmas time was a unique experience that I will remember forever. By far, one of the highlights of the trip was my introduction to…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent France Adventure 4.0 – Final
Côte d’Azure It’s Friday morning right now and the end of our trip is in sight. By Sunday we will be heading back to the airport for our return flight home to Vancouver. Well, hopefully on Sunday. As of this morning, this is not 100% certain. More on that later. As I write this last chapter of our trip…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent France Adventure 4.0 – Part 4
Driving, Not Walking Now that we’ve moved down to the Bordeaux area, the one big thing that’s changed for us since leaving Paris is that we have a car. The small Bordeaux town of Margaux that we are based in really doesn’t have many amenities so getting around the area is only practical by driving. But there’s one really big…
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France 4.0 Pictures
I have started to upload some pictures from our France 4.0 Adventure to my photo web site. You can see the pictures on my site here. I will add more pictures every few days as time permits. Baden
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent France Adventure 4.0 – Part 3
The Real Taste of Paris The other day we went out for breakfast to a local café and of course we had croissants and coffee. That first bite of fresh croissant is always the best as you taste the crunchy exterior and the soft, chewy interior. The same goes for a good warm baguette freshly baked. We bought a…