Travel
Land of Kiwis
Feb 13, 2021
Finally we got on a plane to Auckland which is located about two thirds of the way up New Zealand’s north island. Wellington is New Zealand’s capital, but Auckland has always been its...
Portugal
Feb 6, 2021
The ancestors on both side of my father’s family came from Sāo Miguel, the largest island in The Azores. The Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal, is an archipelago...
Holiday in Spain
Jan 30, 2021
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, and is world famous because of the enormous rock rising up from its centre. It sits on...
Rock the Casbah Again
Jan 23, 2021
My husband Douglas and I visited Morocco in 1989, and inspired by The Clash’s song “Rock the Casbah”, we decided to visit one. Casbahs consist of several buildings surrounded by...
Rock the Casbah
Jan 16, 2021
Morocco is an ancient and fascinating country situated in the northwest corner of Africa and bordering both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It was a protectorate...
Viva Italia!
Jan 2, 2021
My husband Douglas and I spent a month travelling around Italy in the spring of 1985. We didn’t have any sort of plan other than wanting to visit...
Turkey (Not in the Straw)
Jul 18, 2020
The first place Douglas and I visited in Turkey after Istanbul was the ancient city of Ephesus. Ephesus had a population of some 225,000 people in its heyday. The largest temple...
Istanbul (not Constantinople)
Jul 11, 2020
Turkey is a geographically diverse and historically significant country. It is home to Troy (the setting for Homer’s timeless epic “The Iliad”), and the city of Ephesus, whose...
Hitchin' a Ride
Jun 6, 2020
Hitchhiking seems to have fallen out of favour in recent years. My husband Douglas and I hitchhiked whenever possible when we were travelling in...
Just Like This Train
May 30, 2020
One of my favourite ways to travel is by train. You can quietly enjoy the scenery or read a book, and unlike air travel you always have the option of getting up and stretching your legs...
A Land Downunder
May 9, 2020
Our plan was to visit family in Sydney and Brisbane and then make our way northwest through the Outback before using the far northern city of Darwin as our...
Toro Toro Toro!
Apr 7, 2020
One of my all-time favourite children’s books is “The Story of Ferdinand”. This tale of a peaceful bull who prefers smelling flowers to butting heads...