Posts in Tag: markets
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Chichicastenango – Guatemalan Market Town
We are close to the home stretch on Victor Romagnoli’s Central American odyssey for Adventures Abroad. Previously the group has visited Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador and lastly the ruins of Copan in Honduras. Today we are crossing back into Guatemala which we briefly traversed on the way to Copan. Our destination is the […]
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Leon – Nicaragua’s Most Interesting City
This is my sixth and final post on the poorest country we will visit on this Adventures Abroad exclusive trip to Central America specially designed and led by ace guide Victor Romagnoli. In my first post I provided a synopsis of what I liked and didn’t like about Nicaragua with the ledger coming down far […]
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Bogota Market – A Great Introduction to Colombia
This is the second in a series of posts on the South American country of Colombia. In the first post I mused on whether or not Alison and I would find Colombia to be the stereotypical Latin American violence ridden banana republic or a country finally at peace with itself. Well the answer became readily apparent […]
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Waterloo Ontario – Highlights of RVing in the St. Jacob’s Area
For the past three years I have going on an annual RV trip and writing about it for RV Gazette, a publication that unfortunately no longer exists. The first year was totally insane as my son Dale Jr. and I drove 4000 kms. in a week over ridiculously bad roads in a crossing of the […]
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Alsmeer – Visiting The World’s Largest Flower Auction
The bike and barge tour through Holland with Cycletours had another great day yesterday visiting the city of Leiden, touring an organic cheese farm and playing a game of boules. Today’s highlights will include at visit to the world’s largest flower auction at Alsmeer followed by a bike ride right through the centre of Amsterdam. […]
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Hawaii Five-0 – Searching for Steve McGarrett and Wo Fat
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a visit to the four main Hawaiian islands that Alison and I took a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post we visited the sites of Pearl Harbor and the Bishop Museum. In keeping with the […]