"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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