Category Travel
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 […]
Call of the Wolf
Ottawa’s annual winter carnival, Winterlude, opened on Friday. The weather hasn’t been what organizers had hoped. Last year the Rideau Canal skateway didn’t open at all, the first time that had happened in 50 years. The Canal is the centrepiece of the festival, so its closure put a damper on the celebrations. This year the canal […]
So Many Rocks
Shortly after we moved to Germany in 2017 I was walking in the Black Forest just outside of our village of Sulzburg, when I noticed what appeared to be a sign on one of the trails leading off the main path into the side of a hill. Why would there be a sign in the […]
Complimentary Checked Baggage
If you have flown in recent years, you have heard the announcement. It seems to happen with every flight. The plane is full. That means space in the overhead compartments is at a premium. Therefore the airline, out of the goodness of its heart, is offering to let you check your carry-on bag – for […]
The York Castle Time Machine
Welcome to Flashback Friday. This year on Fridays I am reposting material from previous years. This month we have gone back to 2015 for our offerings, this one being from January 26 of that year. While it may be a staple of science fiction stories, I doubt time travel is a viable possibility. Relax though; […]
A Different View
Renovation time, and I had to move my filing cabinet. Which, as you know, is easier said than done. Paper weighs a lot. Even with the ongoing shredding of unnecessary documents and records, the filing cabinet was full. It certainly couldn’t have been moved from the basement to the second floor without being emptied. Well, […]
Wandering Through The Forum
As the snow came down in Ottawa on the weekend, I was thinking about travel. Probably everyone in the city was wishing they were somewhere they didn’t have to shovel. With travel not really an option, I traveled virtually, looking at pictures from past vacations. On Saturday I managed to visit Italy and Egypt without […]
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