My sister-in-law, daughters and I took the bus to the next town where there is a museum made up of a set of traditional old houses that were moved from the hillsides and assembled in a little wooden town. In summer there are folkloric festivals with singing and dancing and lots of people. It was…
My husband has been to two funerals since he came – an uncle on each side of his family. On Monday we were picked up for the 90 minute drive to Zlin for the second one, an uncle I have met a number of times. Most of the way there, we had some time to…
In a recent conversation about travel packing, M asked me if I took my bathing suit to South America. “Yes,” I replied, “since we went snorkeling, but I could have gotten away without it by unzipping the legs of my jungle pants, and I wore a shirt anyway to avoid sunburn on my back.” “Oh,…
The romantic and spectacularly scenic train trip across Canada (well at least from Vancouver to Toronto) has not been as impressive as I expected. Mom has always raved about her train trips, and we were trying to re-create something on this trip. I did it as a child and of course it was a huge…
We got home yesterday. Today I went into the office for awhile to catch up on emails and prepare for some meetings on Monday (now canceled, fortunately). I was amused to read an e-mail exchange between 2 fashion mavens in the office, commenting on my packing list: “She has no cosmetics in her cosmetics bag!!!…
Yesterday was a free day in Guayaquil, so we went down to the waterfront, checked out the Parque de los Iguanas and a museum, and walked along El Malecon 2000, which is a revitalized strip along the water (when the Guaya River enters the Pacific) with touristy promenade, shops, view points, gardens. It connects up…
We flew back to Guayaquil from the Galapagos. It was a great trip – watching blue-footed boobies dance, magnificent frigatebirds, swimming with young sea lions, eating excellent food on the boat. We took lots of photos, and the underwater camera has worked well. One evening on the boat, one of the young people had his…
This afternoon we met the other people who will be on our 4-day cruise – 2 Australians, 2 Dutch, 1 Irish, and us. We were taken to lunch and then to the tortoise area here on Santa Cruz Island. Saw about 6 or 8 giant tortoises, including one blocking the road on the way in…
Seeing Clarely 