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Templo Mayor – Mexico City’s Aztec Centrepiece
Tenochtitlan was the most important city in the Aztec, or more properly Mexica, empire and with a population of between 200,000 and 300,000, one of the largest cities in the world when Hernan Cortés arrived in 1521. The Spaniards were simply blown away, not only by its size, but by the beauty and majesty of […]
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Hacienda Pena Pobre – Luxury in Mexico City
My wife and I recently made our first trip to Mexico City to join a tour of the Central Mexican Highlands. As we usually do upon our first visit to a new city, we wanted to arrive a few days early to get our bearings and get acclimatized. Since Mexico City is located at an […]
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Scone Palace – Scottish Royalty Coronation Site
This the fourteenth post reporting on the inaugural Medieval Britain tour by Canadian military specialists Liberation Tours. In the last post we celebrated crossing over to Scotland by stopping for a wee dram at Carter Bar and then moved on the the wonderful ruins of Melrose Abbey. We had a day off in Edinburgh and […]
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Xochimilco – Enjoying it Without the Crowds
Xochimilco has been on my bucket since long before anyone had a bucket list. I first read about this wondrous, watery, flower strewn oasis on the south side of Mexico City in one my early readers that featured chapters on interesting places around the world. I’m not even going to guess how long ago that […]
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery – Outstanding
I was on a recent tour of Great Britain with Canadian military travel specialists Liberation Tours and we had arrived in Scotland after an exceptional and jam packed romp through England. It was time for a break and we had a free day to explore Edinburgh on our own. Most in the group opted for a visit […]
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Coyoacan – Mexico City’s Oldest Neighbourhood
Mexico City with a metropolitan population of over 21 million is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere and the largest Spanish speaking city in the world. Not surprisingly it has dozens of distinct neighbourhoods just like New York City, Toronto or Los Angeles. Many of these neighbourhoods hold little of interest to the average […]
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Central Mexico – Go With Adventures Abroad
Alison and I have just returned from the inaugural Adventures Abroad tour of Central Mexico with veteran tour guide Victor Romagnoli, featuring the Day of the Dead festivities. All I can say is that it was eye-opening in every sense of the word and although I’ve travelled enough to know that one’s impressions of a […]
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Ketchum Idaho – Hemingway’s Last Stand
Ernest Hemingway is one of those writers who people have little ambivalence about – you either really like him or you hate him. Whether these dispositions are based on his actual writings or on his unabashedly mysogynistic lifestyle doesn’t seem to make a difference. I can overlook his adulterous womanizing, lying and ridiculous braggadocio because […]
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Melrose Abbey – The Heart of Robert the Bruce
This is post number thirteen from a recent trip to Great Britain with Canadian military tour specialists Liberation Tours. Titled Medieval Britain: Castles, Cannons & Crowns our group has been having a blast travelling to some of the most important historical sites in England including Stonehenge, Salisbury Cathedral, HMS Victory, Warwick Castle, Fountains Abbey and several […]
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