Havana is stunningly shabby and elegant. It could be the years of neglect, or it could be the type of materials used in construction, but everywhere there are crumbling buildings with vestiges of ornate detail and grandeur. The view from the rooftop is an unrelenting mess – one can’t imagine where to start renovating! Streets in…
I diligently wrote daily draft blogs on my i-phone during the trip, but didn’t have access to wireless internet to send them. Then, on return, I had some trouble with Gmail on my phone, so I removed and re-installed the app. Hadn’t thought about the fact that the drafts existed only on my phone, and they…
In Toronto we got celebratory with an evening at the opera. The photo shows the keeners at the pre-show talk. The building is new and modern and quite impressive. If you are wondering when my love for opera began, you have good reason to wonder. M got cheap ($35) tickets to the Canadian Opera Company’s…
The variety of hostels, motels and hotels is an interesting part of travel. For Australia and New Zealand I had a list of hostels in various towns, downloaded onto my i-pod, so we would pick one and try to find it in town, and make a decision on the spot whether it was acceptable or not.…
> Please note, KB, that there is no bottle of wine in this photo. It is Friday evening and we are now in Melbourne, from where we fly out the day after tomorrow. I probably won't post again until it is time to edit my blog and add more photos.
> We're on the road from Sydney but progress is slow because there are beautiful beaches and views around every corner/curve of the road. We have quite a collection of shells and rocks to bring home. The photo shows me with some small acquisitions. Last night we stayed over a pub in the town of…
> After two weeks experiencing the gentle but scenic charms of New Zealand, we are in a big city (4.5 million plus a LOT of tourists. It is an outdoorsy city with huge and impressive botanical garden in the middle; the famous opera house is just one part of the whole shoreline complex that spans…
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