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
The Long Road Home
Caribbean Island Stops on the Royal Clipper
On our Windward Islands cruise on the Royal Clipper we visited four of the Windward Islands and three of the Leeward Islands: the countries of Barbados, St. Lucia, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis, and islands within
O’er the Bounding Main on Royal Clipper
We boarded the tall ship Royal Clipper after 24 hours in Barbados, and set sail for a week in the Caribbean “Sailing, Sailing, Over the Bounding Main”. But what exactly is the “main” and why is it bounding? What better
24 Hours on Barbados (Plus 1 More)
We were in the taxi at daybreak for the short ride to the Saint Vincent airport, where we expected the 45-minute flight to be shorter than the wait for the flight to Bridgetown, Barbados. However we caught a triple break;
Visiting Saint Vincent
We arrived back to Saint Vincent on the Bequia ferry at dusk, and by the time that we grabbed some breakfast supplies, had dinner at Basil’s downtown, and jumped in a taxi to Arnos Vale (just outside Kingstown) it was
Limin’ on Bequia
On the first leg of our trip to the Caribbean, we managed to get from Vancouver to Toronto in the early evening in a snowstorm, but only about an hour delayed. Bonus was that we got a last minute upgrade
Why Canadians are “Snowbirds”
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
Tall Ship Sailing in the Caribbean
We have booked a cruise on the Royal Clipper and will be sailing through the Windward Islands of the Caribbean for our first trip of 2025. In just eight days and seven nights we will visit six different countries. It
Bring us back a parrot!
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
The Goroka Festival…2024!
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
Cherry Blossoms and Climate Change
It now appears that our 2024 trip to Japan and Korea won’t be at cherry blossom season. But that may have been impossible to predict in any case since climate change is cited as the reason for the wild swings
Through the Eyes of Van Gogh and…..???
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
Plans for Spring, 2020
Those cherry blossoms aren’t in Japan, but in South Korea. Although our South Korea plans got scrubbed in 2020 due to the pandemic, we will get there, just no idea when! ORIGINAL POST FROM BACK IN 2019: We’ve got our
It’s official; we’re not going ANYWHERE any time soon
On March 13th, 2020 Canada issued a level 3 travel advisory (“avoid non-essential travel”) for the entire globe. We’re grounded. Our thoughts are with those countries so much harder hit than Canada (so far), and we look forward to resuming
Planned visit to Nicaragua cancelled
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