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Our Excellent Costa Rican Adventure – Part 1
Getting Ready Over the years, our routine of getting ready to travel has evolved. Quite a while ago, I started making a list using some software and that list has ballooned to almost 70 items. I know this sounds extreme but it includes many mundane things like charging up camera batteries and paying the credit card bill. Of course, on…
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Barb and Baden’s Return to France – Final
Sidebar I was originally planning on writing 4 installments for this Return to France adventure but for a number of factors this will be the final one. I’ll be covering a lot of ground, almost a 8 days worth. Missing the Crowds It’s now Sunday on our Paris trip, our 4th day here. I made another early morning run to…
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Barb and Baden’s Return to France – Part 2
Getting Here It’s 4AM here in the Paris apartment we’re staying at where I’m writing this next installment of our Return to France Adventure. A bit more on that in a minute. Wednesday was our travel day getting to Paris from Vancouver and had its unexpected highlights and challenges. I mentioned in Part 1 that we had booked a direct…
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Barb and Baden’s Return to France – Part 1
We needed to check our notes because we couldn’t believe that it’s been 12 years since our last trip to France. Of course, it’s been three years since we’ve been anywhere outside of North America, this Return to France trip is significant for us in many ways and quite possibly a broader return to travel. The tagline of my blog…
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Our Excellent East Coast Adventure – Final
Leaving the Beach As I had mentioned in my previous posting, Wildwood, New Jersey is a resort destination known for its boardwalk and beaches. In the three days we stayed in Wildwood, although we walked kilometres of the beach, we only scratched the surface as the beach, side to side, is easily 10 Km’s long. The first day that Barb…
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Our Excellent East Coast Adventure – Part 3
Driving to Distraction One of the reasons why I like being in larger cities when travelling is that we’re usually exploring on foot and the kilometres of extra walking per day serves to offset the calorie-rich foods we’re often eating each day. It’s unavoidable, as we’re often trying to sample the local specialities, in our case dishes like clam chowder…
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Our Excellent East Coast Adventure – Part 2
Sidebar: I neglected to send some of you the first installment of this Excellent Adventure. I had to rebuild the mailing list from memory as I’ve stopped using the Gmail account I was using back in 2019 for this purpose. My apologies. Travelling “Light” I’ve written on this subject a few times over the years. Travelling light might be a…
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Our Excellent East Coast Adventure – Part 1
Getting Back Online Again We were in Sri Lanka when I last wrote an update on my travel blog. Regular readers know that I’ve been fairly diligent at posting updates here at least twice a year for the last 18 years. Of course, none of us knew how travel would come to a halt and 32 months would go by…
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Our Excellent Sri Lankan Adventure – Final
The Food Anywhere that we’ve travelled to in the world, the food is often one of the main differentiators that give you a real sense of the local culture. While it’s possible to get hamburgers and pizza pretty much anywhere, we always want to try the local cuisine. In Sri Lanka, more than any other dish, local means rice and…
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Our Excellent Sri Lankan Adventure – Part 3
Elephants It’s been five days since I last posted an update and we’ve done quite a bit since then. I had mentioned in my previous post that we were staying in the town of Dambulla and it was our base for two days while we explored the area. One of the highlights of this area was our visit to Kaudulla…
