"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."
Upon our return from Perth, Australia to Vancouver, we had booked a couple of days in Singapore to break up what would otherwise be a 35-hour, 3-flight ordeal. We had planned to revisit a few Singapore favourites, including the viewing
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
While in Fremantle, we took a short, 3-night “holiday within a holiday” to Margaret River, Western Australia’s wine capital. Despite five previous visits to Fremantle, we had somehow never managed to reach Margaret River before, despite it being only a
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
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
We arrived at our hotel in the heart of Dublin late in the evening after our afternoon at Newgrange. No time for sightseeing, just a dinner at a nearby pub, enjoying a Guinness and a football game (soccer to we
We left Galway by bus, but stopped to pick up a rental car at Dublin Airport so that we could go to visit the Neolithic sites of Newgrange, Knowth, and Dowth, collectively known as Brú na Bóinne. One of just
Another morning’s travel brought us to the city of Galway in the northwest of Ireland (but not Northern Ireland). Galway was immediately appealing as we walked down to our hotel through the Saturday market, via pedestrianized streets filled with buskers.
From Killarney to Cork is less than 100 kilometres, but that takes you across the island from the west coast to the east. So, after jumping on a bus in the morning, less than two hours later we were in
While in County Kerry, we paid a visit to the Kissane Sheep Farm to watch a demonstration of the sheep herding skills of Irish border collies. These amazing dogs can be trained to obey commands by voice or whistle to
We began our visit to the Republic of Ireland by flying directly to the west coast to the tiny tourist town of Killarney. Killarney has been famous as an Irish visitors’ Mecca since Victorian times; the town of just 15,000
We arrived in England to be welcomed by typical English weather for the spring; kind of chilly, 13 degrees and drizzling, but only off and on. In fact, by the weekend it was beautiful – sunny and 15. Salisbury is
On April 30th, we jumped on a plane and headed off to London Heathrow to spend 2-1/2 weeks in England and the Republic of Ireland. Upon arriving in mid-afternoon the following day, we did not immediately head for London as
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
The Guinness barges were part of everyday Dublin life, transporting wooden barrels full of GUINNESS from the Brewery to the waiting cross channel steamers at Dublin Port and bringing the empty barrels back to the Brewery to be refilled. Dublin
Our trip to southern Africa wound up with six days in the country of South Africa, where we visited Cape Town and then topped off the trip with a couple of relaxing days in nearby Stellenbosch wine country. This was
We weren’t too upset about leaving Etosha National Park since we had planned two days of game viewing at private game reserves on our route back to Windhoek. And we treated ourselves by booking lodges for our final two nights
We left Damaraland and entered Namibia’s famous Etosha National Park through the western gate, to begin our 3-night stay, camping and staying at a couple of lodges as we did our self-driving game drives. We’d love to say that Etosha
Still in Damaraland, but at the northern edge, we drove to the Palmwag Concession to camp for two nights. We needed to stay a couple of nights so that we could enjoy a really special activity in the early morning
Having decided to skip camping with the seals at Cape Cross on the Skeleton Coast, we were able to add an extra night in Damaraland, an area of more than 100,000 square kilometres (over 10% of the whole country). Sandwiched