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      • 2022-1a – A Day in Auckland
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10 Types of People Who Shouldn’t Step Foot on a Cruise

10 Types of People Who Shouldn't Step Foot on a Cruise

The image below links to a PDF reprint of a recent AOL.com article titled “10 Types of People Who Shouldn’t Step Foot on a Cruise”. We are definitely Types #2 “People who want an authentic cultural experience in another country”

Admin April 7, 2026April 7, 2026 2027-1 - West Africa Cruise, News Read more

The Greek Goddess Protapriliá

Greek goddess Protapriliá

In May, we will visit the Mediterranean countries of Greece and Albania. While in Greece we hope to visit the small Greek island where the somewhat unusual statue pictured above was found. It is obvious that this is not a

Admin April 1, 2026April 1, 2026 2026-2 – Greece and Albania, News, Trips Read more

UN Country #130; Paraguay

Paraguay 130 II

Regular followers of our photo blog may have noticed that our country counter was recently updated to 130 UN countries visited. On our recent trip “Uruguay and the Amazon“, we visited Paraguay, a country to which we’d never been before.

Admin March 10, 2026March 10, 2026 2026-1 - Uruguay and the Amazon, News, Trips Read more

Where to Travel in 2026?

where to travel 2026

Have you been bombarded throughout January with travel suggestions for 2026? The feature image above is from Audley Travel’s post “Top Trip Ideas“. And Tripadvisor has chimed in (as summarized by TravelPulse) with their listing of the “Best of the

Admin January 29, 2026January 29, 2026 News Read more

Travel Trend – UNESCO World Heritage Sites

UNESCO travel trend

As always, the first couple of weeks of January have featured a flood of emails and social media posts hyping “travel trends for 2026”. The predicted trends include: However the emerging trend that most spoke to us is one featured

Admin January 15, 2026January 29, 2026 2026-1 - Uruguay and the Amazon, News Read more

Newgrange Winter Solstice Lottery

Newgrange winter solstice

December 21, 2025: The winter solstice was at 7:03 a.m. today in our time zone (PST). The days will now be getting longer every day for the next six months! With the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere quickly approaching,

Admin December 20, 2025December 21, 2025 2024-2 - England and Ireland, News Read more

Fiji Inspiration

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Tourism Fiji recently launched a contest to promote travel to Fiji using Wilson from the movie Cast Away as the centrepiece. After recovering from our initial surprise (Cast Away was filmed in Fiji? It’s been 25 years?!?) their promotion made

Admin August 10, 2025September 2, 2025 News Read more

Home for Homeless Homing Pigeons

homeless homing pigeons

When we visit the Amazon rainforest in Brazil next year, we hope to reach the remote village of Loof Lirpa to visit the Home for Homeless Homing Pigeons. The Amazonian subspecies of the common homing pigeon, Columba livia amazonum, nests

Admin April 1, 2025April 1, 2025 2026-1 - Uruguay and the Amazon, News Read more

Amazon Cruise (ver 2.0)

Grand Amazon Expedition

When we created our trip page, Uruguay and the Amazon, we were planning to cruise the Amazon from its mouth up to Manaus, Brazil and back on a large cruise ship. We have had to pivot, and have cancelled that

Admin March 31, 2025February 28, 2026 2026-1 - Uruguay and the Amazon, News Read more

Elbows Up Canada!

Elbows Up!

The feature image above is from the CBC article “‘Elbows up’ rallying cry evokes memories of Mr. Hockey” which provides the origin story for the Elbows Up catchphrase. As mentioned on our Amazon Trip Page, we’ve cancelled our plans to

Admin March 23, 2025March 30, 2025 2026-1 - Uruguay and the Amazon, News Read more

The Long Road Home

counter updated after 2025-1

When we disembarked from the ship on Saturday morning, we had an hour or so to look around Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados. Then headed to the airport for our “on time” flight to Toronto. Not sure why we had

Admin March 6, 2025March 10, 2025 2025-1 - Royal Clipper Caribbean Cruise, News, Trips Read more

Why Canadians are “Snowbirds”

winter at our doorstep

According to Wikipedia: A snowbird is a person who migrates from the colder northern parts of North America to warmer southern locales, typically during the winter. The southern locales include the Sun Belt and Hawaii in the United States, as

Admin February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 2025-1 - Royal Clipper Caribbean Cruise, News Read more

Planning for 2025

Audley travel trends 2025

We follow Audley Travel, not because we travel with them frequently, but because they always have some inspiring destinations. They recently published an article “5 Travel Trends for 2025“. In case you don’t have the time nor the inclination to

Admin January 15, 2025February 13, 2025 News Read more

Best Travel Camera?

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A lot has been written about selecting the perfect camera for travelling. The most recent article is this detailed post from National Geographic: “The 10 best compact cameras“. We have to agree with their selections of of some really great

Admin November 2, 2024February 20, 2025 News Read more

Being a Tourist at Home

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Sometimes it’s good to return to tourist sights close to home. “Home” for us is Vancouver, BC on Canada’s Pacific coast and we spent the day yesterday hosting relatives and showing them just a few of Vancouver’s splendid attractions, made

Admin June 7, 2024February 20, 2025 News Read more

Ireland Added to Our List

Cindy and Ross at Cliffs of Moher

Yes, we do keep track of the number of countries that we have visited! After returning from our “England and Ireland” trip we added the Republic of Ireland to our list of UN countries that we have seen and we

Admin May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 2024-2 - England and Ireland, News, Trips Read more

Returning Home; the Good and the Bad

Lufthansa flight home

After our 3-flight, 40-hour odyssey to return home on South African Airlines and Lufthansa through Jo’burg and Frankfurt, we settled into our post-trip routine. There’s always both pros and cons to arriving home. Let’s get the bad points over with

Admin April 16, 2024April 16, 2024 2024-1 - Namibia and Nearby, News, Trips Read more

Looking forward to Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town

In our trip planning for our “Namibia and Nearby” trip coming up in 2024, we came across a great article in the Audley Traveller Autumn 2023 edition about Cape Town. We’re looking forward to our first visit to Cape Town,

Admin November 7, 2023October 31, 2023 2024-1 - Namibia and Nearby, News Read more

Country Count Updated to 122

counter 122

On our Australia VI and More trip in September and October 2024, we visited four countries, but only one was a new destination for us; Timor-Leste. You can read our posts about Atauro Island and Dili for a description of

Admin November 4, 2023October 31, 2023 2023-3 - Australia VI and More, News Read more

The Goroka Festival…2024!

Goroka Festival

The Goroka Festival in Papua New Guinea just finished its 2023 run, and PNG’s The National said “Goroka Show hailed a success“. So we’ve begun making plans to attend the 2024 version a year from now. We’ve started a website

Admin September 18, 2023December 17, 2025 News, Where We're Going Read more
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Iguazu Falls

2026-1 – Uruguay and the Amazon – February, 2026

Osaka castle

2025-3 – Japan II and Australia VIII – Sept-Nov, 2025

Djemila, Algeria

2025-2 – Northern Africa and France – Apr-May, 2025

Royal Clipper

2025-1 – Royal Clipper Caribbean Cruise – Feb-Mar, 2025

kangaroo Yanchep

2024-3 – Australia VII & Singapore – September-November, 2024

Cliffs of Moher

2024-2 – England and Ireland – April-May, 2024

Oryx Mar19-22 Etosha

2024-1 – Namibia and Nearby – Feb-Apr, 2024

Uluwatu sunset, Bali

2023-3 – Australia VI and More – September-October, 2023

Arles amphitheatre

2023-2 – Barcelona to Berlin – June-July, 2023

camels Oman

2023-1 – Arabian Peninsula – Feb-Mar, 2023

2022-2a(2) Auckland

2022-2a – A Day in Auckland

Mask off in Australia

2022-2 – Australia V – Apr-Nov, 2022

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