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Royal Dublin Golf Club – A Great Place to Start an Irish Golf Trip
This is the first in a series of posts on a guy’s golf trip to Ireland starting with the Royal Dublin Golf Club, but first some preliminaries. Why Ireland? The group of guys I have been traveling with for many years go on an annual golf trip to United States in conjunction with watching an […]
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Merrion Square – A Must Visit Location in Dublin. Here’s Why.
Join me in exploring Merrion Square later in this post, but first a few words on why I’m here in the first place. This is the second day of a guys golf trip to Ireland. Yesterday we flew overnight from Toronto and after checking in at The Conrad, to avoid any chance of jet lag, we […]
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Liberation Tours – My Choice For Canadian Military Tours
This is a link to the last in a series of twenty-seven articles I wrote describing a tour I took in April and May 2015 with Liberation Tours out of tiny Georgina. Ontario. The trip not only met the expectations of myself, my wife Alison and my sisters Anne and Kaye, but exceeded it by […]
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Wageningen – The 70th Anniversary Liberation Parade
In the last post I described an idyllic day in Arnhem, Holland enjoying the Netherlands Outdoor Museum, while the rest of the group was hobnobbing with Prime Minister Harper. Today we’ll all enjoy the 70th Anniversary of the liberation of Holland parade in Wageningen. Please join us. Wageningen, a small city in northern Holland might seem […]
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Arnhem- A Walk Through Sonsbeek Park to the Open Air Museum
Alison and I are setting out this morning to walk to some of the top attractions in the city of Arnhem, Holland. Here’s why. Liberation Tour 2105 Liberation Tour 2015 is winding down with the second of three days of events commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Holland by forces made up of many […]
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The Liberation of Holland is Celebrated at Groesbeek
Liberation Tour 2015 wrapped up our tour of WWI sites with the Last Post Ceremony at Menin Gate in Ypres. After that Alison and I made a detour to visit the grave of her uncle John Weir at Calais Canadian War Cemetery. In the morning we head northeast, passing by Ghent, Antwerp and into Holland. Our […]
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Calais Canadian War Cemetery – A Visit To An Uncle Never Met
In my last post we visited the largest Commonwealth War Cemetery, Tyne Cot and I contemplated the senseless slaughter that took place in the Ypres area over the entirety of WWI. From there we are headed into Holland for events related to its liberation by Canadian troops in 1944-45, however, Alison and I are […]
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Tyne Cot – The Largest Commonwealth Cemetery in the World
For the past two days Liberation Tour 2015 has been based in Ypres, Belgium where no less than five major battles were fought in WWI, encompassing a period from October 1914 to October 1918 – in other words, the whole bloody war. Canadians were involved from April, 1915 when they were victims of the first gas […]
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Passchendaele Battlefield – Understanding the Canadian Role
In a previous post I described the Canadian role at the battles that took place around the small city of Ypres in 1915 and 1916. We suffered over 14, 000 casualties in those battles, but it wasn’t over yet; after Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele Battlefield is probably the most notable of once obscure places along the Western Front, […]
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