Posts in Tag: Boat Tours
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Bay of Islands – Exploring New Zealand’s Northland
In this post Alison and I are going to explore a small part of the very northern tip of the North Island of New Zealand, an area called, not surprisingly, just Northland. I have already put up two posts from Northland, one on the Nova Scotian founded settlement of Waipu and another on the Top […]
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San Rafael Glacier & Aiken Park
This is my eighth post from the March, 2024 trip to Chile with Adventures Abroad led by champion empanada eater and all round great guy, Chris Tripodi. In the last post we cruised the waters of Lago Todos dos Santos and enjoyed the lovely German architecture of Puerto Varas in the Patagonian Lake District. After […]
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Patagonia Lake District – Volcanos, Waterfalls & Pudus
This is my seventh post from the March 2024 trip to Chile with Adventures Abroad. In the last post we visited the first of what I deemed to be the big three on this trip, Torres del Paine National Park and it far exceeded even my very high expectations for these famed mountains. From there […]
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Seville – Highlights from a Fabulous City
The 2024 SATW Canadian Chapter meeting was held in Seville, Spain and provided me with the opportunity to visit this wonderful country twice in six months. I had been in Caceres and other areas in the Extremadura in November, 2023 for the SATW Freelance Council meeting and came away with a fond appreciation of that […]
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Mekong Delta – Vietnam’s Endangered Lowlands
This is my ninth and final post from our 2023 trip to Vietnam with Adventures Abroad. In the last post our group toured Saigon and found out that the entrepreneurial spirit there marks it as quite different from Hanoi. In this last post we’ll head down to the Mekong Delta where the majority of Vietnam’s […]
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Hoi An – Vietnam’s City of Wood
In the last post from the Adventures Abroad Vietnam tour we visited two very different sites in Da Nang, the Museum of Cham Sculpture and the pagodas of Marble Mountain. It was yet another eye opening day in this fascinating country as I had no idea who the Cham people were and their important role […]
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Mount Athos – Cruising by the Monasteries
This is post #4 from the Greece portion of last spring’s Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by the Canadian who knows more about Greece than most Greeks, our friend Victor Romagnoli. In the last post we visited the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Philippi and in this one we’ll see another. When Victor and […]
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Alexandroupoli & the Turkish Border
This is my fifth post from the Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by our friend Victor Romagnoli in the late spring of 2023. The first four posts were from Turkiye including the last one from Edirne, which turned out to be a very interesting and untouristy place. As noted in the previous posts the […]
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Kicker Rock – San Cristobal by Boat
In the last post on this Adventures Abroad Experiental tour of Ecuador we landed on the Galapagos island of San Cristobal and immediately were immersed in the amazing wildlife for which the archipelago is so famous. In this post we’ll board a small boat and continue to look for more unique species on land and […]