Travel

an exploration of dreams and my visitors

You know how lucky I am with regards to never having lost my luggage on a flight I have a feeling that will change on this one. So yeah I called it. Nicki will vouched for me on this one. This is the very message I sent her on Facebook the night before I flew shortly after the stressful fiasco of obtaining my eTicket. Perhaps I jinxed myself. Disembarking the plane at around 2015 I was in

Locks today 9 total 35 So much for only 3 hours motoring each day 6 hours Friday and 8 today to reach good moorings at Crofton. Farreaching views for most of the way with a lot of sunshine. The Kennet Avon Canal runs between wait for it..... the R. Kennet in the east and the R. Avon in the west. Hving travelled uphill since we started today we crossed the summit via Bruce Tu

Thursday May 16 2013. Istanbul Day 1.We had another posh breakfast today as were were in no hurry to explore the city as we have another 3 nights here before we return to Barcelona. We eventually walked down the gangway at around 10.45. We walked up to Taksim Square through a rather lovely pedestrianised supposedly with old fashioned trams running through the middle of the street.This was a v

On Friday it rained again Good thing we didn39t come here for the weather. We drove out to Haulerwijk in Friesland to visit the cemetary where my maternal grandparents and favourite Aunt were buried.The next day May 18 we drove our awesome Peugeot back to Zwolle and said goodbye to Eunice our trusty British GPS guide. We refilled the tank and to our great amusement we found gloves hanging

We continued our journey going to London and staying in a very expensive hotel with a horse called Jacob outside.We were near the Tower Bridgeand walked across it. At night we went to see The Mouse Trap which was very well done.We wandered the streets after the show..dark alleys but we were safe and we eventually found the railway station. Next day we went to our ship the Marco Polo the sa

HelloSo it39s been a good week at Riggs very interesting and feel a lot more resilient now thanks to the help of Riggs On Thursday donut day I had my last supervision session with Dr David Mintz he39s away at a national conference this week so we had our final meeting on Thursday evening after work. We decided to go for a hike yes a hike up Monument Mountain a trail t

Day 15 May 18 2013I got good nights sleep which was welcome after last evenings debacle. The two visitor centers in the French Quarter didnt open until 9 am so I didnt have to rush out the door like I have been.When I checked the weather today was going to be hot in New Orleans and warm with thunderstorms in Selma Alabama which is where I was headed. It wasnt shaping up to be a wi

We were meeting at a relatively reasonable time this morning 8.30am. We had read that the Rainforest Cafe had the best reviews for food in La Fortuna and we only had one meal left to try it so we threw our stuff together and headed down the road to try it out. The coffee was fantastic. We are slowly getting used to having full cream milk. Its gonna be weird going back to skinny milk when we ar

This place is Frickin crazy my peeps. Having said that its pretty awesome too. Still jetlagged and groggy we got ourselves up and squared away travel arrangements for the week before we hired a driver to take us around the city. Yes....I know.... I39m a big proponent of public transit and there is a metro stop ten minutes away...However...there are just certain ways to do things in 115 heat