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Nuku Hiva – We Reach the Marquesas
In the last post we set sail from Papeete for the tiny atoll of Kauehi in the Tuamotu Archipelago, our first stop on this Adventures Abroad journey to the Marquesas Islands aboard the Aranui 5 passenger/freighter. It was certainly a stark contrast from the volcanic islands of Tahiti and Moorea and provided an inkling of […]
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Ua Pou – Marquesas’ Cathedral Island
In the last post we made landfall at Nuku Hiva the first of the Marquesas Islands we visited on this Adventures Abroad French Polynesia tour. There, among other things, we were treated to a display of the traditional island drumming, chanting and dancing in the shade of a sacred banyan tree. In this post the […]
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Geneva – World’s Most International City?
In the first post from Geneva Alison and spent most of it walking around the area known as The Old Town where figures such as John Calvin and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were at home. In this post we’ll go wider afield and visit or at least try to visit some of the famous international organizations that […]
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Ankara – Visiting Ataturk’s Mausoleum
In the last post of four from Cappadocia we went ballooning, fulfilling a lifelong dream for some of us on this Adventures Abroad tour of Western Turkey. Now it was time to leave this storied wonderland and head for the capital city of Turkey, Ankara where we will visit the Ataturk Mausoleum and the Museum […]
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Kauehi – First Stop on the Aranui 5
In the last post from our recent trip to French Polynesia with Adventures Abroad I described life aboard the Aranui 5, the passenger/freighter which would be our home for the next twelve days. Now after warm up visits to Tahiti and Moorea we are ready to head out to sea and I can’t wait. Our […]
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Old Town Geneva – A Walk Through History
My first post from Switzerland was a compendium of reasons for signing onto the Adventures Abroad Hiking tour of Switzerland. However, since Alison and I had never spent any time in this country other than at airports, we decided to get there a few days before and include the cities of Geneva and Basel on […]
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Ballooning in Cappadocia
This is my fourth and final post from Cappadocia on this Adventures Abroad tour of western Turkey. In the last one we ventured deep underneath the bowels of Cappadocia to visit the underground city of Derinkuyu. In this one we’ll do the very opposite, taking to the blue skies above Cappadocia in a hot air […]
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Aranui 5 – Life on a Passenger/Freighter
In the last post on this Adventures Abroad tour of French Polynesia we circled the beautiful island of Moorea on our last day on dry land before boarding the Aranui 5 for our twelve day passage to the Marquesas Islands with stops at the Tuamotu Archipelago on the way out and back. In this post […]
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Derinkuyu Underground City, Cappadocia
In the last post our Adventures Abroad tour of Western Turkey visited the open air museum at Goreme. This was a bit of a misnomer because most of what we saw was actually inside the churches that were carved out of the soft volcanic rock of Cappadocia. In this post we will do the opposite […]
From the road
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December 4th, 2022
I never understood the miracle of the Virgin birth until I saw this Nativity scene in the Sangay Hotel in Banos, Ec… https://t.co/qI5zspN5Au
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November 27th, 2022
Although I’m now within a few degrees of the equator I’m thinking back to a great train ride on the Glacier Express… https://t.co/mF4CzWsOvZ
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November 27th, 2022
Visiting the Andean condor rescue project at Hacienda Zuleta was exceeded only by seeing two wild ones fly overhead… https://t.co/WN5Tk2jfbH
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November 20th, 2022
Old Quito is the best preserved of the Latin American capital cities and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We just spen… https://t.co/VsyMM7UcIk