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Royal Aberdeen Balgownie Hole by Hole
This is the sixth and final hole by hole post from a fall 2022 golf trip to northeast Scotland arranged by Platinum Golf Scotland. This will feature the revered Balgownie course at Royal Aberdeen. Previously during our stay in the Granite City we played Cruden Bay and Trump Scotland, both of which were exceptional and […]
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Jungfraujoch – The Top of Europe
In my last post from a June, 2022 trip to Switzerland with Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad our group took a gondola up from Grindelwald to First where we did an alpine hike to Bachalpsee and experienced the Cliff Walk. In keeping with the one day on one day off hiking schedule of this tour, […]
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Quito Highlights – TeleferiQo & Much More
In my first post from Quito I described a walking tour through the UNESCO World Heritage Site historic centre of this amazing city. It was led by Alfredo Meneses our Adventures Abroad guide and was the kickoff of a 14 day Experiential Ecuador Tour that will take us to the Galapagos Islands and the Amazon […]
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Trump Scotland Hole by Hole
This is my fifth post from a fall 2022 golf trip to the northeast coast of Scotland put together for a group of eight by Platinum Golf Scotland. We played our first three rounds out of Inverness before moving to Aberdeen for the next three starting with the absolutely amazing Cruden Bay which I described […]
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Grindelwald-First Gondola to the Cliff Walk
In the last post from this Adventures Abroad tour of Switzerland led by veteran guide Victor Romagnoli our group transitioned from Zermatt to Wengen by way of the very interesting small city of Interlaken. As I noted in that post the itinerary initially had us staying in Grindelwald for three nights, but instead we went […]
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Quito – Walking the Historic District
This is my first in depth post from a recent trip to Ecuador with Adventures Abroad. In a previous post I gave my top eight reasons why Ecuador should be high on every traveller’s list of places to visit in 2023. In this post we’ll accompany our AA guide Alfredo Meneses on a walking tour […]
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Cruden Bay Hole by Hole
This is the fourth of six posts from our fall 2022 trip to Scotland arranged by Platinum Golf Scotland. For our first three rounds we were based out of Inverness and played Nairn, Royal Dornoch and Castle Stuart in that order. We have now relocated to the city of Aberdeen and will be playing Cruden […]
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Interlaken – Bollywood in Switzerland
This is my latest post from last summer’s visit to Switzerland with Adventures Abroad. It will feature our transition from Zermatt to Wengen with an extensive stop in the lovely little city of Interlaken. In the last post I wrote about the absolutely once in a lifetime day we had hiking down from the Matterhorn […]
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Ecuador with Adventures Abroad
In 2022 Alison and I visited yet another fabulous destination with Adventures Abroad, the country of Ecuador which despite its relatively small size, has an incredible variety of ecosystems. From the Galapagos Islands to the towering volcanoes of the Andes to the UNESCO World Heritage cities of Quito and Cuenca to the truly staggering diversity […]
From the road
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April 20th, 2023
I’ve had a bad case of writer’s block since getting back from Southeast Asia, but I did finish this post on the fan… https://t.co/HoJjP4jeha
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April 12th, 2023
One of the main reasons to visit the Galapagos is to see the giant tortoises. This latest post explains where you c… https://t.co/mQ8PWha8j3
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April 11th, 2023
Spring is very late this year so it’s nice to see the crocuses finally show up. https://t.co/7HD6wvsEJ6
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April 9th, 2023
Sunday morning is a good time to reflect back on another Sunday in Reading, England which I wrote about here:… https://t.co/EJ4Is2NSqz