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The Killing Fields – Cambodia’s Nightmarish Past
Ever since I was a young boy I have always had a compulsion to visit places where terrible things have happened. I think this sprung from my fascination with history and I know it was confirmed when at age 13 I visited Vimy Ridge and other WWI sites with my grandfather, knowing he had fought […]
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Seville – Highlights from a Fabulous City
The 2024 SATW Canadian Chapter meeting was held in Seville, Spain and provided me with the opportunity to visit this wonderful country twice in six months. I had been in Caceres and other areas in the Extremadura in November, 2023 for the SATW Freelance Council meeting and came away with a fond appreciation of that […]
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Vina Santa Rita – Tasting Chile’s Wines
In the last post from the Adventures Abroad Chile tour we travelled to the UNESCO World Heritage city of Valparaiso where we had a great walking tour followed by a great seafood meal in Vina de Mar. On the way there and back from Santiago we passed by a number of wineries in the Casablanca […]
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Cyprus with Adventures Abroad
Cyprus is not a destination that is on the radar of most North American tourists, yet it’s wildly popular with Europeans, especially Brits and Germans. While they are primarily attracted by the beaches, great weather and the fantastic Cypriot cuisine there is much more to do in Cyprus than just laze in the sun on […]
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The Acropolis of Athens Without the Crowds
My last post from Greece featured the final days of the Via Egnatia tour led by our good friend Victor Romagnoli for Adventures Abroad. However, it was not the end of trip for Alison and me. We are going to spend a few days in Athens and then at Victor’s suggestion, head to the Pelion […]
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Phnom Penh – More Than the Killing Fields
In my last post from Southeast Asia our group concluded our visit to Vietnam by visiting the Mekong Delta where we spent a day exploring this watery wonderland. However, this epic journey through three countries with Adventures Abroad has not come to an end as we will now head to Cambodia for the final five […]
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La Rabida Monastery & the Columbian Routes
The spring 2024 meeting of the Canadian chapter of SATW (Society of American Travel Writers) took place in Seville, Spain and included a number of very interesting post-trips, none more so than to the province of Huelva. Here I learned for the first time of a building that might be the most important in the […]
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Valparaiso – Chile’s Faded Superstar
This is my third post from Chile and the first one that deals specifically with a day on the Adventures Abroad itinerary. In the first post I described a day in Santiago with local guide Chris Whatmore that I recommended as a warm up for the AA tour. In the second I gave an overview […]
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Mekong Delta – Vietnam’s Endangered Lowlands
This is my ninth and final post from our 2023 trip to Vietnam with Adventures Abroad. In the last post our group toured Saigon and found out that the entrepreneurial spirit there marks it as quite different from Hanoi. In this last post we’ll head down to the Mekong Delta where the majority of Vietnam’s […]
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