Category Travel
The Joys of Air Travel
It is amazing what we put up with willingly. If they could serve good food then, why can’t they do so now? These days you are lucky if you get pretzels and a soft drink.
This Is Me
I just want to get it over with. I know my impatience isn’t rational, but I just want to get off that plane, and 1.7 seconds less seems like a good idea. How about you?
Remembering
With heat, humidity and haze from forest fires, Ottawa has not topped my list of places to live this week. I’ve been missing the clear, fresh air of Germany’s Black Forest. Today’s photos are from one of the last walks we did before moving back to Canada four years ago. I can’t tell you anything […]
Roman Reflections
Pope Francis died on Monday. Not being Roman Catholic, his death didn’t impact me emotionally, but it brought back memories of 2018, when I heard him speak in St Peter’s Square. It was Easter Sunday morning, the annual Urbe et Orbe (City and the World) sermon, kind of like an American State of the Union […]
Feeling Breathless
I’d say no musical instruments were harmed in creating this sculpture, but they were. At least they weren’t currently being used.. “Breathless” is the creation of British artist Cornelia Parker. When I saw it in 2024, it was hanging in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. These surplus horns, acquired from the British Legion and the […]
Reminder of the Past
The guidebook says there is nothing to see. I guess it is a little outdated. My wife has been visiting Lippstadt, Germany, since her childhood. She knew there had once been a synagogue, but had never visited. This time she walked right by. The guidebook said what was once a synagogue was behind some garage […]
Flashback Food
On Fridays during 2024 we have ben looking back at previous posts from the same date. This is the last Friday this year, and I am not sure if we will do that again in 2025 – next year seems so far away. This one is from December 27, 2017. No, I didn’t eat this […]
Carpet Flashback
There are only a few shopping days left until Christmas, so on this Flashback Friday I though it appropriate to return to a post from December 13, 2016 and a shopping experience I had in Istanbul. I attended a workshop where the speaker recounted how she bought a carpet on a trip to Istanbul. She […]
Man The Lifeboats!
I know the title should have been “Person The Lifeboats” but it doesn’t flow off the tongue the same way. Rest assured I wasn’t trying to be sexist. It is Flashback Friday though, so we don’t we head back to what was posted here on December 6, 2014. I was flabbergasted at the words of […]
A Walking Flashback
It was the sign on the hill that got me chuckling. I’ve never been to Hollywood, but I have seen the iconic sign in movies, print and television (and yes I know it was originally a real estate ad). So when I saw the sign for Brasov I had to wonder what image the Romanian […]
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