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A royal experience
Our table is on the second level on the right. What can you say about a Queen Mary experience that hasn’t already been said? I guess I am going to see what I can do about that. I’ll start with the...
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New York. A feast for the senses. It’s eye-filling, loud, smelly, busy, hot. And exhilarating. Cacophony defines the waves of sound. But painting a word picture of the smells, the tastes, the crush,...
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Sights of New York
One day I will figure out how to insert more than one photo into the blog. In the meantime…in no particular order a smattering of New York.
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Sights aboard the Queen Mary
Some of the things we saw on board we didn’t dare point the camera towards. Some fantastic (and unbelievable for that matter) cosmetic surgery comes to mind. And some things are best left in your...
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How can I not have written about Boston?
Boston, where every step is a journey through history. Boston, steeped in the building of a nation. Boston, where a red light is a suggestion. We loved Boston. We spent time in the various historic...
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Unexpected sights
The unexpected often mystifies and delights. And sometimes the mystification is about why we are surprised. I was surprised at how rocky the parts of Sweden that we saw were. Very much as I imagine...
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James Taylor, on our ship!
Several months before we left Edmonton to embark on our Grand Victorian Progress (as we have started calling this trip), our friend Anne Marie dashed off an email to us saying that she had just read...
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Some things never change
Way back in the early 1600s, the King of Sweden, King Gustav II Adolph decided he wanted to build the biggest and best warship ever. So he commissioned a ship builder and things got under way. After...
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Bicycles rule
In Stockholm, Copenhagen, and especially Amsterdam, bikes and riders rule the world. A pedetrian strays into a bike lane at dire risk. Bikes and bikers have absolute priority and they’ll take out an...
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A glorious day
We have just had a glorious day. We’ve just arrived in France after several weeks in Scandinavia and the Low Countries. To date, I haven’t written about any given day, but today was such a beautiful...
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How lucky are we?
Every now and again I get annoyed when someone tells me we are lucky…lucky to be retired….no, we worked for 45 years and I figure we earned our retirement. Lucky to be on this trip….well perhaps, but...
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A new love in my life
Alsace is beautiful. I fell in love with Alsace. No matter where we went we were ooohing and aaahing over the beauty of the scenery. The first time we went to Switzerland we felt like that too. Every...
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Who knew?
The things you learn when you travel. Belgians lay claim to inventing the french fry. According to the Frites museum (yes, Virginia, there is a museum dedicated to french fries — it’s in Bruges,...
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Technology
We are back in the world of very iffy WIFI. Yet while I rage about technology and its horrors, the rage is very self-denigrating. I wonder at the young people who can’t do anything without their smart...
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Count the times
How many times have we been to Venice? Let’s see. We’ve been to Stockholm, the Venice of the North. Well, one of the cities with this nickname. The city is built on 14 islands and 30 per cent of its...
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The cliches are true
I’ve always believed in the truth of a cliche. If so many people repeat something so many times that it becomes a cliche, well, talk about having to define a word by using it. So it shouldn’t come as...
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The sights we’ve seen
We have spent a good part of this trip dazzled….by sunlight, by that sunlight reflected off impossibly blue water (river and sea), by beautiful architecture, amazing landscapes filled with ever...
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P.S. on luck
Italy has added some perspective to my attitude about good luck. Specifically, luck plays a role in where, when and to whom we are born. When we were fumbling around trying to get some kind of...
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Planes, trains and automobiles
It’s interesting to look at what people drive in different parts of the world and how they get from A to B. Here in the parts of Europe we have visited, the roads are crazy small, crazy twisty and...
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What a night
Every time we come to Paris, we repeat one thing we did on our first trip here. We go on an dinner cruise. Last night was the night for this trip’s cruise. It was a wonderful as it always is with...
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