Posts in Tag: Museums
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St George Bermuda – Find Out Why It Is a World Heritage Site
In the previous post Alison and relocated to the eastern portion of Bermuda to set up residence at the Grotto Bay Beach Resort for three nights. We will use it as a base to explore St. George, Bermuda or St. George’s as it seems to be called on at least half the maps. It was settled […]
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Royal Naval Dockyard – Why It’s A Must Visit In Bermuda
Our first full day in Bermuda looks very promising. From the balcony of our room at the Southampton Princess I can tell it is going to be a hot one. This is the only day that we don’t have a golf game scheduled so the plan is to take the free ferry from the Waterlot […]
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Winnipeg Mint – Well Worth a Visit While in the Winnipeg Area
In a previous post I described how important and influential the city of Winnipeg was to my upbringing and yet ultimately how and why I made the decision to leave her. Initially I returned to The Pas to work for the CN as first an operator/crew clerk and then in my dream job as a […]
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Canadian Museum for Human Rights will Transform Winnipeg
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights will open in Winnipeg this September and I believe it will entirely transform the city in the same manner that the Guggenheim Bilbao has transformed that northern Spanish city; so first a little history of Bilbao and how it is changing from a cultural backwater to a must see […]
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Delft – Home of Vermeer and Other Reasons to be Daft about Delft
In the last post we wrapped up our bike and barge tour of Holland with Cycletours and then took the train to Delft to join in the first ever Dutch celebration of Koningsdag. Alison and I both agreed it was one of the most interesting days of our lives. Today we will take the time […]
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Boston – How to Get the Most Out of a Three Night Visit in Winter
We’d had enough of the shitty Nova Scotia weather so a road trip was in order. I bought some Bruins tickets on line (more expensive than Leaf tickets if you can believe it), booked a room for three nights at the Battery Wharf Hotel and hit the road. Listening to Harlan Coben’s excellent thriller Six […]
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Kilauea Crater – Crown Jewel of Hawaiian Volcanoes N.P.
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a trip 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 Maui’s Mount Haleakala National Park which features a dormant volcano. In this post […]
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Maui – Touring the Ioa Valley Where Kamehameha Conquered the Island
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a trip to Hawaii’s four main islands that Alison and I took a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. On the two previous days we had played golf at the Royal Kannapali course and the Kapalua Plantation course, so […]
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Pearl Harbor & the Bishop Museum – War and Peace in Hawaiii
This is one of a series of posts I did during and after a visit to all four of the main Hawaiian islands a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post Alison and I arrived back in Honolulu after a week in Kauai and I described […]