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Tralee – Arnie’s Irish Coastal Masterpiece
Tralee Golf Club was the third of eight courses I and a group of friends played in Ireland in a trip arranged through our friend Barry McGuigan of Golf Travel NI. The first course was the magnificent and frankly on this trip, incomparable Old Head which I described hole by hole in this post. The […]
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Guadalajara – Mexico’s Enigmatic Second City
This is my twentieth and final post from last year’s inaugural Central Mexico tour with Victor Romagnoli put on by Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad. It comes just in time as Victor sets off again on this tour in just a few weeks – October 28, 2019 to be precise. The last post featured Michoacan […]
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Old Head – Hole by Hole in Golfing Heaven
What happens when you combine one of the most beautiful pieces of property in all Ireland steeped in over 3,000 years of history with eighteen holes of golf? You get what, for the avid golfer, is nothing short of heaven on earth. There are not enough superlatives to describe the Old Head Golf Links located […]
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The Cape of Good Hope – A Must Do Tour
In my last post I described why Cape Town is Africa’s most beautiful city and how to visit in safety including the Victoria and Arthur waterfront district and fabled Table Mountain. In this post Alison and I will take a day tour to some of the most interesting sights close to Cape Town including the […]
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Michoacan – Morelia, Tzintzuntzan & Patzcuaro
We are coming to the end of the second week of what has so far been an amazing historical, cultural and gastronomical tour through central Mexico with Adventures Abroad’s veteran guide Victor Romagnoli. Today we left the city of Guanajuato which I described in my last post as the most unexpected and pleasant surprise of […]
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Cape Town – Africa’s Magical Coastal City
Of all the coastal cities in the world that are famed for their great natural locations, think Rio, Sydney, Athens, San Francisco, Istanbul etc., Cape Town, South Africa might be at the top of the list. It certainly was very high on my list of must see destinations and after having spent three magical days […]
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Guanajuato – Mexico’s Most Magical City?
This is my eighteenth post from last year’s inaugural Central Mexico with Victor Romagnali offered by Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad. It was one of the best overall trips Alison and I have ever been on and traveling with Victor always guarantees a great cultural, historical and gustatory experience. Our last stop was in the very […]
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Botswana – The Final Game Drives
They say that all good things must come to an end and so it is with this being my final post on the fabulous Adventures Abroad trip to Namibia, Victoria Falls and Botswana. In the last post I described how we got from Victoria Falls to the remote Xakanaxa bush camp in the Okavango delta […]
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San Miguel de Allende – Meeting Old Friends
This is my seventeenth post on last year’s Adventures Abroad tour of Central Mexico with ace guide Victor Romagnoli and although it is getting near the end, there are still a number of truly magical places to visit. In this post I’ll feature the small city of San Miguel de Allende. In the last post […]
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