"We haven't been everywhere, but it's on our list!"
At the playground overlooking Freo’s “Containbow”. Still getting used to the thought that a beautiful day in May is the end of autumn in the southern hemisphere, with winter just a few weeks away. We’d better get used to it
Finally in Western Australia and reunited with family after more than 3 years apart. Fremantle will be home for the next 6 months. Bizarrely, despite some of the most draconian pandemic measures in the world, the failed exemption requests, the
We passed through Auckland, NZ on the way to Aus. Normally, with a 7-hour layover we’d see a few of the sights, but due to COVID, New Zealand still wasn’t allowing visitors. (We transited on April 29th and the border
Ready to board our first flight to Perth. It’s finally happening. Through our first document hurdle and security at YVR. Fremantle here we come!
In March of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded like a car crash in slow motion, so did our travel plans. Our April trip to Korea, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and Australia slowly got whittled down, flight by cancelled flight, to just
OK, it’s not much but it’s better than nothing. First new country in almost 2 years, as we added the Bahamas to our list. We’d be lying if we said that we didn’t pick one of the Caribbean islands that
First trip out of the country in almost 2 years! Only a week, but the weather, food, and company were a welcome relief from the pandemic monotony.
This must be the unluckiest trip that we have ever planned! We bought tickets in 2019 only to see the flights cancelled in 2020 when the pandemic hit. Bought another set of tickets in 2021 when things seemed to be
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
Feb 11, 2020. A gorgeous sunny day in Ostia Antica. Spent the whole afternoon visiting the Roman archeological site and museum of Ostia Antica. It was the port of ancient Rome and was once right at the confluence of the
Feb 10, 2020. Long, tiring night travelling to Rome. Arrived in Ostia Antica in the wee hours of the morning then crashed for most of the day. Our apartment was gorgeous. Right within the walls of the medieval town. Lovely
We were quite happy to leave Addis Ababa behind as we jumped on an early morning flight to Bahir Dar. First up was a boat ride on Lake Tana to visit the Ura Kidane Mihret Monastery, one of many on
We really enjoyed our visit to Asmara, Eritrea, our first stop after our marathon of flights from YVR. Lovely city with lots of interesting, but run down, Italian architecture. Very friendly people and great Italian food as well. One of
In January, 2020 we will fly to Rome then head to Africa to visit the countries of The Horn of Africa: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somaliland (a quasi-independent, but unrecognized part of Somalia). We’ll finish up in Sudan and then
On our way home. Long day starting at 3am in Tbilisi then Istanbul and Frankfurt. We are back to the land of soft and flushable toilet paper- yeah! Currently at Calgary airport watching it snow. What a welcome home.
In 2018 Facebook responded to the Cambridge Analytica data breach by, in a classic example of locking the barn door after the horse has fled, shutting down third party access to its platform. Suddenly we could no longer cross-post our
Cindy Macie was traveling to Kyiv, Ukraine from Toronto Pearson International Airport. Place: Kyiv, Ukraine (50.45, 30.5233) Address: Kyiv, Ukraine Place: Toronto Pearson International Airport (43.67712775242, -79.61178192291) Address: 6301 Silver Dart Dr, Mississauga, Ontario L5P 1B2 On our way to
A trip to Colombia, the Canal, and Costa Rica. In the Houston airport now and we’ll be in Bogota tonight.
Still bad in Nicaragua (Canadian government says to “avoid non-essential travel”) so we’re off to Mexico instead! Look for our report from a sunny beach soon.
Took the subway to Little India and made our way to the Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple. Watched the Hindi devotees come to prayer. Wandered through the streets until we reached the Masjid Sultan (1824), the landmark Islamic house of worship in