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 t...
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 ...
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 ...
Go on a journey along some of the best train trips in the world. From luxury train journeys across the U.S. to scenic train rides through the U.K.’s rolling countryside, you’re in for an epic ride...
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 see...
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 (so...
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. On...
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 m...
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 i...
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 voi...
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;...
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. ...
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 immediat...
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 differe...
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 ar...
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 co...
