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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 […]
Remembering An Era
It seems like only a week ago was Flashback Friday, where we revisit a post from this date a number of years ago. Today we look at October 11, 2014. I am old enough to remember the big coal-fired train engines. They were just being phased out in favour of diesel when I was a […]
No Longer Flying
Welcome to Flashback Friday and a post from October 4, 2014. I looked to see if Elbonia was still an option, but alas the airline ceased operations in 2022 I didn’t have the guts to check the box. Discretion in this case was the better part of valor, as you will see as you read […]
Another Munster Visit
It is one of those iconic churches, a huge draw for tourists in downtown Freiburg. I hadn’t planned on going inside, but the organ music drew me in. The Munster is a dark place – you really shouid visit it on a sunny day. I don’t think i have ever managed that, but this particular […]
Getting Older With The Lions
On this Flashback Friday we revisit September 27, 2014, with thoughts that started more than 30 years before that. In some ways our visit to London this summer was a write-off. It was the last day before our flight home, and I had planned to take in a few sights, it having been a long […]
The Duke
I remember learning in school how he beat Napoleon at Waterloo. Somehow I missed that he also served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, twice. Nor had I realized that technically he was Irish. Of course, back in 1769, when the Duke of Wellington was born, Dublin, and all of Ireland was firmly British, […]
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