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    • 2026-2 – Greece and Albania
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    • 2025-3 – Japan II and Australia VIII
    • 2025-2 – Northern Africa and France
    • 2025-1 – Royal Clipper Caribbean Cruise
    • 2024-3 – Australia VII & Singapore
    • 2024-2 – England and Ireland
    • 2024-1 – Namibia and Nearby
    • 2023-3 – Australia VI and More
    • 2023-2 – Barcelona to Berlin
    • 2023-1 – Arabian Peninsula
    • 2022-2 – Australia V
      • 2022-1a – A Day in Auckland
    • 2021-3 – Ontario & Bahamas
    • 2020-1 – Ethiopia, etc
    • 2019-3 – Caucasus
    • 2018-2 – Australia III
    • 2018-1 – Happiest Places
    • 2017-3 – Silk Road
    • 2017-1 – Australia II + Japan, Philippines
    • 2013-3 – Orient Express
    • 2013-2 – Australia
    • 2010-2 – Southern Africa
      • 2010-2a – The Best of the Animals – September, 2010
      • 2010-2b – Zambezi River Rafting – Sep 21, 2010
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    • 2026-3 – Australia IX
    • 2026-4 – Beaujolais Nouveau and Christmas Markets
    • 2027-1 – West Africa Cruise
    • Return to Japan + Korea
    • Papua New Guinea and Australia
    • Turtle Tour – someday???
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Coronavirus and Travel Plans

Coronavirus and Travel Plans

The coronavirus, COVID-19, is disrupting travel plans worldwide and ours are being affected too. We were scheduled to visit South Korea but that’s not going to happen now; even if we still wanted to go almost all airlines have cancelled

Admin March 6, 2020January 7, 2023 News Read more

Country Count Updated to 114

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Upon our return from Africa in February we updated our list of UN countries visited; we now stand at 114! That total is composed of 113 of the 193 current member countries of the UN and one former member country

Admin February 14, 2020March 24, 2023 2020-1 - Ethiopia, etc, News Read more

Where to go in 2020: A Globe traveller’s guide

Where to go in 2020: A Globe traveller’s guide

A great article from the Globe & Mail with inspiration for 2020 travels. An especially intriguing destination idea is Expo 2020 Dubai; we’ve never been to the UAE and maybe now is the time! See all their suggestions here: www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-where-to-go-in-2020-a-globe-travellers-guide/

Admin December 10, 2019March 29, 2023 News Read more

Country Count Updated to 109!

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Upon returning from our fall, 2019 trip our country count stands at 109 UN countries visited. While we enjoy keeping score, we travel primarily to see the sights and meet the people. We almost always spend at least 2 or 3 days in every new country that we visit.

Admin October 18, 2019November 5, 2022 News Read more

Why we escape winter

Coquitlam snow

On our recent January/February trip to South and Central America temperatures were in the 20’s and 30’s every day and we only saw rain 3 times in 34 days. We cleverly thought that we’d escaped all the snow shoveling back

Admin March 7, 2019March 19, 2022 News Read more

Celebrating 103!

Tom Lehrer - elements song

We’ve now visited 103 countries, coincidentally the same number of elements as in the periodic table (back when we went to school!).. To celebrate, we were going to do a song set to the tune of Tom Lehrer’s “Elements Song”..

Admin March 1, 2019November 7, 2022 News Read more

Planned visit to Nicaragua cancelled

San Juan del Sur - deserted by tourists

The featured image is a view of the deserted streets of San Juan Del Sur, usually overrun by tourists. Although our “Turtle Tour” in 2018 was cancelled, we have no doubt that we’ll get back to Nicaragua some day. A

Admin September 13, 2018March 25, 2023 News, Turtle Tour, Where We're Going Read more

Stranded on Bali by Mount Agung Eruption

100countries.info Mount Agung eruption

The feature image is of the eruption of Mount Agung that stranded us on Bali for a day and a half. Of course “stranded” meant hanging around the beautiful hotel pool and Kuta beach, and fine dining at Un’s Restaurant.

Cindy June 29, 2018April 8, 2023 2018-2 - Australia III (and more), News Read more

Off to Australia again (and Indonesia, Singapore, and Hong Kong)

Borobudur

Visited our granddaughter (our very first grandchild!) in Fremantle for a couple of weeks, then time in Indonesia on the islands of Lombok, Gili Air, Bali and Java, then Singapore, and a layover in HK. Our first stop was in

Cindy May 28, 2018April 21, 2026 2018-2 - Australia III (and more), News, Trips Read more

Our 100th Country!

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Thursday, March 29, 2018 Early morning flight to Bhutan, the “Happiest Place on Earth “. Awesome view of the Himalayas including Everest. Landed in Paro and we’re quite excited to celebrate our milestone goal of visiting 100 countries.

Cindy March 29, 2018April 15, 2023 2018-1 - Happiest Places, News, Trips Read more

Half the countries of the world!

half the world

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 We are half way! Having reached the Maldives, we have now visited half the countries in today’s world. There are 193 UN countries, so country #97 is right in the middle. Of course we’ve visited several

Cindy March 7, 2018November 7, 2022 News Read more

Snowy and cold

Snowy and cold

Awfully chilly for BC, but beautiful. Why we’re headed off travelling again!

Cindy February 21, 2018November 7, 2022 News Read more

Colony Farm Walk

Colony Farm Walk

If we have to be home during the winter, then Vancouver is certainly one of the nicest places in Canada!

Cindy February 21, 2018November 7, 2022 News Read more
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