Posts in Tag: Adventurers Abroad
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Switzerland with Adventures Abroad
Alison and I have just returned from our latest overseas excursion, a two week walking/hiking tour of Switzerland with Adventures Abroad which was quite a departure from our previous trip on a passenger/freighter in French Polynesia. The two trips could not have been more different in every aspect but one, we loved them both. What […]
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Dolphin Watch with Dr. Michael Poole
In the last post our Adventures Abroad tour of French Polynesia took a fast ferry to the beautiful island of Moorea and began our stay at the excellent Manava Beach Resort. In this post we’ll begin exploring the island and its marine inhabitants from the comfort of a boat that has come to pick us […]
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Cappadocia – Where & What Is It
We are well on in our Adventures Abroad tour of western Turkey led by the indomitable Yasemin Reis and today we will finally reach the fabled region known as Cappadocia, a destination I have wanted to visit for many years. Much of what we have seen so far on this trip has been a repeat […]
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Manava Beach Resort – Heaven in Moorea
This is my first post from one of the most beautiful places on earth, the island of Moorea in French Polynesia. In the last post I concluded the circle tour of Tahiti as our Adventures Abroad group ended the day at the site where Captain Cook and later the H.M.S. Bounty set anchor off Venus […]
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Konya – Home of the Whirling Dervishes
In the last post our Adventures Abroad western Turkey tour made its final stop on the Mediterranean coast at the city of Side. It was now time to turn inland and cross the Taurus Mountains to the high plateau of Anatolia where the fabled region of Cappadocia awaits us. But, before we get to Cappadocia […]
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Side – Greco/Romans Ruins Amid a Modern Town
Today marks our final journey along the Mediterranean Coast on this Adventures Abroad trip through western Turkey led by expert Turkish guide Yasemin Reis. In the last post we visited the wondrous ruins of Perge, one of the first places where St. Paul preached the new Christian religion. We will depart from the city of […]
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Tahiti Circle Part II
This post is a continuation of the Tahiti circle tour which I began in the first post on the Adventures Abroad French Polynesia trip that Alison and I took earlier in 2022. In that post we visited the Papeete market and the most complete marae or temple site in the entire territory. In this post […]
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Perge – Walking in the Footsteps of St. Paul
In the last post from this ongoing series on western Turkey with Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad we visited the great theatre of Aspendos and marvelled at the Roman engineering feat of the inverted siphon aqueduct that brought water to that city. In this post we’ll visit Perge, a much larger archaeological site not far […]
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Tahiti – Circling the Island, Part I
This is my fourth post from a recent trip to French Polynesia, but the first one where we actually get down to sightseeing with our Adventures Abroad group led by veteran guide Martin Charlton. In the last post I recommended a self-guided walking tour of Papeete as there is plenty to see there that is […]