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Extremadura – Seven Great Reasons to Visit
This is the first of several posts from my recent trip to the Extremadura area of western Spain, a place that is not on most tourist’s radar, but really should be. Comprised of the two provinces of Badajoz and Cáceres the Extremadura has just over a million people living in area about the size of […]
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Vietnam with Adventures Abroad
This is my first post of many to come from our 2023 trip to Vietnam with Adventures Abroad. Alison and I did this trip in conjunction with visits to Laos and Cambodia as well, but you can also do it as stand alone trip. We spent the first nine days of the trip in Laos […]
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Bonaire – A Quick Visit
In the fall of 2023 we returned to Landhuis Jan Thiel in Curacao for the first time since Covid. It is one of our favourite places on earth and we found things much the same as before the pandemic, enjoying morning walks around the salt lake with Digger and Dingo, the resident dogs. We stayed […]
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Philippi and Kavala – Via Egnatia Continued
This is my third post from the Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by Victor Romagnoli since crossing over into Greece from Turkey. In the first of those posts we visited the border city of Alexandroupoli and in the second spent some time in the magnificent Dadia National Park. Today we will move on to […]
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St. Pierre & Miquelon
When I told people I was going to France by taking a ferry from Newfoundland they looked at me like I had lost my mind. But I was in fact quite sane. Although most people don’t know it, the islands of St. Pierre & Miquelon, only a few kilometres off the coast of Newfoundland, are […]
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Vientiane – Laos’ Surprising Capital City
In the last post from our trip to Laos with Adventures Abroad we visited the mysterious Plain of Jars and learned about the aerial bombardment the area endured during the Vietnam War that still has repercussions to this day. In this post I’m going to consolidate the last two days of the trip into one […]
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Dadia National Park
When our guide Victor Romagnoli and I were planning the Via Egnatia tour we both agreed that we wanted to include as much natural history as possible. Since we are both avid birders visiting Dadia-Lefkimi-Soufli Forest National Park or just Dadia National Park as I’ll call it in this post, was a no brainer. It […]
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Twin Rivers GC Hole by Hole
Up until recently the only golf course I had played on the island of Newfoundland was the great course at Humber Valley which is currently ranked #28 in Canada on the SCORE Golf Top 100 Courses in Canada list. That course was designed by Doug Carrick one of the best of the modern Canadian golf […]
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Plain of Jars – Laos’ Greatest Mystery
In this post we’ll visit one of Laos’ three UNESCO World Heritage Sites and the scene of one of the world’s most intriguing archaeological mysteries, the Plain of Jars. Nobody knows who built the stone monuments that resemble gigantic jars or why they built them, but everyone who visits this remote place comes away with […]
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