Posts in Tag: walking tours
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Pere Lachaise Cemetery – A Walking Tour with David Burke
A few days ago I filed a post on a self-guided walk in Montmartre Cemetery and that visit spurred me to want to visit Pere Lachaise Cemetery, its much better known big sister. While Montmartre is reasonably compact with only one way in and out, Pere Lachaise is massive with considerable elevation change and multiple entry points. […]
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Montmartre Cemetery – How to Enjoy A Self-Guided Tour
Montmartre Cemetery Montmartre Cemetery is one of the reasons we chose to stay in the Montmartre area on a recent trip to Paris. Here’s the view we had from our apartment. While Pere Lachaise cemetery gets all the publicity, Montmartre cemetery can more than hold its own in terms of famous burials, moody atmosphere and […]
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Hemingway in Paris – A Search with David Burke
It’s a a beautiful Spring day and I’m off in search of Ernest Hemingway in Paris with guide David Burke. Won’t you join us? Ernest Hemingway treated his children badly, his friends worse and his wives abominably, but he was one hell of a writer which is why I’ve been an admirer of his (well […]
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Montmartre – A Great Place to Chill Out in Paris. Here’s Why.
Our trip to Paris via the overnight Air Canada flight could not have gone smoother. Clearing customs was a breeze – France does not require entrants to fill out any advance documentation and apparently relies on the information encoded on your passport. I wish other countries would follow suit – who the hell knows the […]
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Bridgetown – A Walking Tour of Barbados Capital City
A few days ago Alison and I really enjoyed the tour of the Barbados Garrison and George Washington House put on by the Barbados Garrison Historical Consortium Inc. However, that tour does not actually take you to the sites of downtown Bridgetown so today we are returning by ourselves to see what Bridgetown has to offer. […]
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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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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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Winnipeg – An Early Morning Walking Tour and History Lesson
When I’m travelling I always try to get up at first light to see if there is going to a ‘magic hour’. This is the brief period of time in the very early morning and late dusk that creates the best light conditions for photographs. It took three days, but on the third morning in […]
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Winnipeg Manitoba – How My Affair with this Prairie City Began
My affair with Winnipeg Manitoba began innocently enough; I was an eleven year old boy with an overbite so pronounced I could have been a stand-in for Beaver Cleaver. At a time when orthodontics were unknown in northern Manitoba my parents deemed it necessary to have this situation corrected and how they found the name […]