Category Travel
Flashback Flowers
On Friday’s this year we are revisiting the past, with today’s offering coming from May 31, 2017. I have spent most of May overseas, and am glad to be home at last. Traveling meant that I missed the annual Tulip Festival in Ottawa, which is one of the highlights of the year. It has been […]
Flashback to Athens
On Friday we look at posts from past years. Today we return to the post from May 24, 2019. A photo essay for you today. Just when you were expecting me to show you more ruined temples on top of Athens’ most famous hill, I turn the camera in the other direction. All I have […]
Travel Surprise
Memories fade, but this is ridiculous. I’ve been bitten yet again by a mobile German holiday. In 2018 there were a few mornings when I headed to the grocery store, only to find it closed for a holiday I wasn’t aware of. In Canada stores post holiday hours a week or so beforehand. In Germany […]
Sacrifice
For today’s Flashback Friday post we revisit April 12, 2015. Kind of a Good Friday theme. While in Germany last summer we visited Museum Abtei Liesborn, which has the largest collection of crucifixes in Germany, more than 800 of them. I have written about that visit already, but thought today I would share just a couple more photos from that […]
The Orphanage
It is Flashback Friday once more. Today we go back to March 22, 2015 and some reflections on a visit to Istanbul. I wrote about visiting one of the Princes Islands in Istanbul, and my interest in the abandoned building at the top of the hill. I recently discovered there is more to the story of that […]
Memories of Empire
I almost forgot that today is Flashback Friday. Today’s post comes from this date in 2017, a monument I had noticed on a visit to London the previous month. It’s a huge monument, popular with tourists and pigeons alike, right in front of Buckingham Palace. Looking at it had me thinking about just how much […]
Time For Tea
Welcome to another edition of Flashback Friday. Today’s post is from February 22, 2017. I know today is February 23, but my mind was wandering when I chose what to share today. I was in Cambridge and reading a history of Christianity in England that was part of a display in The Round Church (more […]
Martian Real Estate
Today’s Flashback Friday post comes from February 16, 2016. They say real estate is always a good investment; the price of land always goes up. So maybe I shouldn’t pass on the offer. From what I can see the property does have pretty much limitless potential. But investing in anything always carries with it a […]
Then and Now
Last week I promised to post photos of the ice sculptures on Sparks Street in downtown Ottawa, part of the annual Winterlude festival. Then I ran into a snag – warm weather. With temperatures as high as eight degrees Celsius, the sculptures remained under wraps when I was downtown. Maybe they took the wrappings off on […]
Just Outside Town
On this Flashback Friday we go back five years to February 9, 2018 when I was living in Germany. There’s a hill on the outskirts of Sulzburg that is mostly vineyard, with some trees at the top, and just begging to be climbed. Looks pretty steep, but you don’t go straight up unless you are […]
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