Namibia, Part 1 – Windhoeks in Windhoek

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With both excitement and reluctance, we left Blair Atholl in late November and caught a quick flight to Windhoek, capital city of Africa’s least populated country.  Visiting Namibia has been on my ‘bucket list’ for years and years.  And for those … Continue reading

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Home Sweet South Africa

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You know that feeling – when you let something go for so long that taking it up again feels overwhelming?   Like closing arguments, laundry and exercise.  Well, that’s what’s happened to this blog (sorry Mom and Nana B).  And while … Continue reading

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Valencia x 5

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Hola from Madrid.  Today’s post is a joint effort. We’re sitting in our airport hotel room, getting ready to bid adieu to the European leg of our adventures and taking advantage of the high speed wifi yet again.   I’m … Continue reading

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Rockin’ the Casbah, Part II

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I can’t stop thinking about Morocco – the light, the colours, the chaos and mayhem.   And just thinking about Morocco makes us miss having Nana, Nancy and Gwen around.  Sniff… I wanted to add a few more musings about our time … Continue reading

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20,000 Camels

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Hi, it’s Mike. Jean did a nice take on the ‘quick and dirty’ leading up to our trip to Barcelona. Let me add a couple other thoughts…. Tom gave away all of his pocket money to the buskers and street … Continue reading

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The Quick & Dirty

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Our alarm clocks are set for 3:30am, so I’m taking a different approach to this long-overdue post.  The skinny in record time. Tom did such a great job describing Cinque Terre that I barely need to add anything except to say … Continue reading

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Cinque Terre by Tom

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I should be in France right now but Aix was not our favourite city because the students there were too loud and there was a lot of dog poop everywhere.  Our first place out of France was Cinque Terre which … Continue reading

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The Aix-Files

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  Oh, Aix-en-Provence, you saucy minx.   I had such high hopes for you.   You are so very fetching, bursting with cafés and markets and shopping and captivating fountains.   Le Cours Mirabeau and Cézanne and sunflowers and all those ubiquitous … Continue reading

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The unexpected in southern France

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Last night we thought our building might blow down. The thunder and lightning show was incredible waking us in the night.  Heavy rain and powerful winds rattling our windows.  Tom came in to watch the fury from the sky.  Fortunately, … Continue reading

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Normandy

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We’re in Aix now, but it’s Sunday and almost everything’s closed.   It’s a day for laundry and schoolwork and getting this old blog-thing-y up to date. We’re having lots of fun in Aix, but I’d feel remiss if I … Continue reading

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