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Excellent Mystery Adventure Planning – Part 2
Having gone through the last few weeks trip planning our upcoming Mystery Adventure, I now feel that I have a greater appreciation for the work that Barb has gone through for many of our previous trips. As of about a week ago, I concluded the…
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An Excellent Mystery Adventure – Part 1
So here’s the plan. Barb and I have booked a week off at the end of this month. Barb has been told that she has to pack a small suitcase and I’ll take her to the airport where we will be getting on a plane…
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Luggage Renewal
You’d think that I was living in a luggage store. Within 10 feet of my computer there are no less than 6 suitcases. For most people (and even for us for that matter), buying luggage is not something that happens very often. Barb and I…
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A Christmas Tradition with Friends
Barb and I were saying just a few weeks ago how it wouldn’t be Christmas without seeing the annual Christmas musical at the Willingdon Church. When our friends Wendy and Kevin contacted us last week to invite us, we of course made ourselves available. Originally…
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Letting It Ride – Las Vegas Part 2
It was as I was getting ready to leave to the airport and I was looking for a purse that Barb had which she keeps our stash of US dollars that I came across another purse that had nothing but Euros. It reminded me that…
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Gambling On An Interesting Vegas Trip – Part 1
I found out about a month ago that I was going to be going to Las Vegas on business. This would be the first trip back to the airport since arriving home from our Italy trip. Long before I started to write this posting I…
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Web Server Crash
If you had tried to access my blog over the past two days, you might have been wondering what happened as my site was down. The answer is that my web hosting company suffered a server crash and my entire web site plus email was…
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More Italy Pictures
Now that I have some spare time again after completing my Italy 2005 DVD*, I have been able to get some additional pictures put up on the web site. I’m always hesitant to put a lot of my pictures online because I have to compress…
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The Pin Ceremony
The Pin Ceremony has officially taken place. Just a few steps from my computer in the den are two maps on the walls. On the one closest to me is a large map of Europe which now has 26 yellow pins on it. The yellow…
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Otherwise Occupied
Update (Nov. 18): After almost a 2 ½ week delay of ignoring my blog to work on my Italy DVD, I hope to spend the next few days trying to clear up the backlog of articles that I had on the go before I started…
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The Making of an Excellent Adventure 2006 – Part 1
This is not a misprint. After only a 10 day break after returning home from our recent Excellent Italian Adventure, Barb has brought home books from the library to start looking into travel plans for next year. Even by our standards, this is fairly early…
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Italian Adventure Reflections
As promised, here are the final comments by both Liz and Peter. …Baden From Liz: We’re finally home and have had a chance to catch up and get back into life in Vancouver. It’s taking a bit of getting used to as we find ourselves…
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Some Pictures to Tide You Over
Update (Nov. 20, 2005): I have updated the link on this article to the larger selection of pictures that I have just uploaded. …Baden My current count of the pictures that I took from the trip to Italy is around 450. My brother Peter probably…
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Blog Upgrade
Just a quick note to everyone that I plan on doing an upgrade to my blog this weekend so there may be a period of time where it may be out of service. Baden
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Our Excellent Italian Adventure – Final
Finally. Just when we were expecting another delay to pop up for us, we were on our way and boarding our British Airways flight to Vancouver. As I write this final chapter of Our Excellent Italian Adventure, will be landing in Vancouver in about 90…
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Our Excellent Italian Adventure – Part 11
Around this point of our Italian Adventure, I expected to be wrapping up our story and telling you how great everything was. Unfortunately not so. A new chapter of Our Excellent Italian Adventure has unfolded which was unknown to us even 12 hours ago when…
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Our Excellent Italian Adventure – Part 10
Shopping for a Real Milan Experience Picking up from our last episode, we made it to the Milano Centrale train station without too many problems – other than sore arms from carrying all of the extra stuff that we had bought in Tuscany. Our taxi…
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Our Excellent Italian Adventure – Part 9
Back on the Road Again We finally ended up getting out of the villa on Wednesday after lazing around for most of the morning and early afternoon. By about 2:00 we decided to make a short drive around the neighbouring towns around our villa. We…
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Our Excellent Italian Adventure – Part 8
More Chianti, More Tuscany, More Everything As it’s Monday today, we were planning on picking up a few more of the things that we were looking to get for our kitchen in the way of food supplies. Having a kitchen in our villa allows us…
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Our Excellent Italian Adventure – Part 7
Half Way Point It’s Friday today and tomorrow will officially be the halfway point in our Excellent Italian Adventure. That also means that today will be our last full day in Sorrento and as a result, we all have a full day’s agenda ahead of…
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Our Excellent Italian Adventure – Part 6
Thirty-Two Stops to Sorrento To continue our story from last time, we made our train from Rome to Naples and had to connect to another train to get to our final destination: Sorrento. Sorrento is on the southern edge of the Bay of Naples and…
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Our Excellent Italian Adventure – Part 5
Speaking the Language As it is with any foreign country that you might visit, your ability to speak the language makes a big difference as to how you will enjoy the trip. Case in point: Barb and I have a passable command of French and…
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Our Excellent Italian Adventure – Part 4
It’s day 5 into our trip and I’m just overwhelmed by all the sights we have seen. I’ve never walked so much in my life but the feet are hanging in there – barely. One good thing about all this walking is all the extra…
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Our Excellent Italian Adventure – Part 3
Taking your Life in your Hands One of the (many) things that distinguishes European cities from where we live is often that they have cobblestone streets. Rome is a perfect example of this as pretty much all of the roads inside the city are cobblestone.…
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Our Excellent Italian Adventure – Part 2
Getting There is Half the Leg Room I was quite surprised that Barb was relatively disciplined in packing her suitcase. Unlike what Liz wrote in her previous article, Barb and I have never done a “dry run” when packing to see how full things will…
