We spent a full day seeing 3 of the 5 ksour (fortified towns) of the UNESCO-listed M'Zab Valley. An intriguing mixture of markets, medinas, and mosques that in some ways seemed to have not changed in ...
A camel looks like something put together by a committee. Attributed to T. R. Quaife in “Reader’s Digest” As we as we said in our "Will You Ride a Camel?" post before we departed on this trip, w...
A more appropriate quote for the day would be Pepe le Pew's "... you do not have to come weeth me to zee Casbah: we are already here!". (See the Youtube clip below.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM...
We began our trip to Northern Africa and France with great expectations. One of us is a fan of the show Emily in Paris. In a Season 4 episode, there is an Air France product placement in which Emily v...
When we visit the Amazon rainforest in Brazil next year, we hope to reach the remote village of Loof Lirpa to visit the Home for Homeless Homing Pigeons. The Amazonian subspecies of the common homing ...
When we created our trip page, Uruguay and the Amazon, we were planning to cruise the Amazon from its mouth up to Manaus, Brazil and back on a large cruise ship. We have had to pivot, and have cancell...
London Takes The Top Spot – Plus, U.S. Favorite Places for Food, Culture, Solo Travel and More NEEDHAM, Mass., Jan. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Tripadvisor®, the world's largest travel guidance...
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 S...
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 bou...
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 c...
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 outsid...
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 upgr...
