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Barb and Baden’s Excellent France Adventure 4.0 – Part 2
Starting Off Just Right It’s been our experience that after a long day of traveling to a destination, checking into your hotel, it’s vital that things start off just right in your new destination. For us, it typically means that the place that we…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent France Adventure 4.0 – Part 1
You’d think that after making three previous trips to France that we would have moved on to other places in the world to visit. After all, wouldn’t it be natural to just get tired of going to a single country time after time? Of course,…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent New York City Adventure – Photos
I forgot to mention that I’ve already started to post some of my photos from our New York City trip onto my photo web site located here. By next weekend I’ll have all of them posted. Baden
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent New York City Adventure – Final
Without a doubt, the weather has been more of an impact on this New York City adventure than on most of our trips. Two days ago we were sweltering during the day in temperatures approaching 37 degrees. The worst part was that it stayed close…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent New York City Adventure – Part 3
Restaurant Culture We were in a small restaurant the other day having breakfast and we noticed these pictures on the wall of famous people from the 1930's and 40's. I only recognized some of them so maybe they weren't all that famous. Anyway, my thought…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent New York City Adventure – Part 2
There's something about the big city that really appeals to me. Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid and New York, I love them all. All of them have their own particular feel and getting to know each one is an interesting process of discovery that Barb and…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent New York City Adventure – Part 1
It seems like it’s been a twelve months since we’ve been to the airport. As Barb and I were driving to the airport tonight we were talking about how it was almost exactly 12 months ago that we were going to the airport to fly…
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Vancouver 2010 Olympics – Final
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics officially ended last weekend and I’ve gone through the almost 900 pictures that I’ve taken and have posted my favourite pictures. You can click here to see my Vancouver 2010 Olympics photo album. Baden
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2010 Olympic Experience – Part 1
On July 2nd, 2005 I remember that I was at our office in our big meeting room with about 50 other people. We were all watching the live announcement from Prague which city would be getting the 2010 winter Olympics. Almost five years later from…
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Pre-Olympic Whistler Weekend – Final
Without a doubt, Whistler is almost always associated with downhill skiing. So what’s a group of five people to do that don’t ski? Fortunately, Whistler has an endless number of outdoor activities that don’t involve downhill skiing. One of Barb and my favourites that we…
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Pre-Olympic Whistler Weekend – Part 1
, Living in Vancouver, there’s something that we miss just about every other part of Canada will experience a real winter. Right now, in January, most of Canada is covered in snow and for better or worse they are experiencing a real winter. Of course…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Cuban Adventure – Final
Final Thoughts I’m writing this final chapter of our Excellent Cuban in our hotel room in Varadero and I’ve had some time to think about the past week that we’ve spent in Cuba. I’ve got to say that our experience in Cuba wasn’t what I…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Cuban Adventure – Part 2
Getting There Part of the joy of any vacation lies in the journey itself. While it may seem like a common sense notion, it plays a significant role in vacation planning. Most people wouldn’t want to endure a long plane ride for a mere week-long…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Cuban Adventure – Part 1
I woke up this morning and checked the Vancouver weather forecast. It predicted snow today, despite the 8-degree temperature. This made me think it was a great time to leave town for some sunny, warm weather. With Barb and I planning a trip to Cuba,…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Return to Germany – Final #2
Awake It's just after 2AM and we have been home in Vancouver for about 12 hours. As of about 20 minutes ago, I'm officially awake. Of course while the clock says 2:21 my body is convinced that it's 9 hours further ahead on German time…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Return to Germany – Final
The Uniqueness of Bear-leen Several weeks ago I had written about how we were originally only planning on coming to Berlin (properly pronounced bear-leen) for the entire Germany trip. Back then it was going to be a much shorter 8-10 day trip and of course,…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Return to Germany – Part 3
Lakefront Views There’s something about the water that draws us. Having waterfront property automatically is more valuable and most of us look forward to going to a beach to get away from it all. We’ve been here in the lakeside town of Konstanz for a…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Return to Germany – Part 2
After spending 8 hours on board the ship we were finally glad to arrive in Köln (Cologne). We were pretty much beat and were looking forward to a good night's sleep to get ready for the next day as we were staying in Köln for…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Return to Germany – Part 1
After travelling 9 time zones it’s more than natural that the first day would be pretty rough. We flew into Frankfurt with a stop in Montreal and I’m now more than convinced that doing a non-stop flight from Vancouver to Frankfurt is less preferable. While…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Return to Germany – Planning Part 2
The suitcases have made their way up from the basement. Last minutes preparations are being made at the office. A nervous excitement is in the air. This can only mean one thing. An Excellent Adventure is about to start. No matter how many times Barb…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Return to Germany – Planning Part 1
How Paris turned into Germany It’s funny how quickly plans change. For example, under normal circumstances, around this time of year we would be talking about our plans for a short getaway which we normally would do for our vacation around now. If you had…
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Africa Pictures
I know that it’s been about 6 months since we came back from Africa but it occured to me that I hadn’t posted a link to the Africa pictures that I had posted on my web site. The pictures from the Africa trip can be…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent African Adventure – Final
Serengeti If there is one park in Tanzania that is famous the world over it has to be the Serengeti National Park. The name Serengeti is almost synonymous with safari and there are few people who have not seen movies or television shows that are…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent African Adventure – Part 4
Making Our Way To The Safari We arrived in the town of Arusha today where we will be starting our safari. I now use the word town to describe Arusha a bit loosely but I’ll get into that a bit later. We travelled quite…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent African Adventure – Part 3
I have posted more pictures on my photo website here. Getting A Taste of South Africa Those of you who know me will know that it’s no surprise that the food that we eat on our Excellent Adventures is pretty important. I think that…
