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Our Excellent English Irish Adventure – Part 3
The Weather I normally might make a passing comment about the weather when we’re travelling but I have to make a longer comment in this case. The weather has been … unpredictable. Since arriving in London and getting some rain for about an hour or…
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Our Excellent English Irish Adventure – Part 2
The Rest of London For any large city the size of London, there are weeks and months that you could spend here and never see everything. We only had four days here and the first day was kind of a write-off given how tired we…
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Our Excellent English Irish Adventure – Part 1
The Rigours of Travel People who say “getting there is half the fun” have never travelled by air. Travelling anywhere of sufficient distance is an energy-draining exercise. As my blog title has given away, we’re in London right now, having arrived here yesterday afternoon. I…
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Barb and Baden’s Newfoundland Adventure – Final
3rd and Last Destination We really enjoyed our stay in Bonavista and we felt that two days there was just enough to see everything that we wanted to see and get a taste for the small town. But it was time to move on so…
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Barb and Baden’s Newfoundland Adventure – Part 2
The Locals Before we even came to Newfoundland we had heard from numerous sources that the locals were extremely friendly and loved to talk to strangers. We weren’t sure how much of this was true and how much was urban legend. Being in Newfoundland for…
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Barb and Baden’s Newfoundland Adventure – Part 1
It was 10 years ago when we were last in Halifax. At that time we had landed here to start a multi-week driving trip through four provinces before returning home. That trip still stands out in our memories as some of the most spectacular sights…
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Barb and Baden’s India Adventure – Final
Final Destination By Friday morning we once again packed up and the driver that we had hired here in Kochi drove us to our last destination of Munnar, about 130 kilometres away. I felt kind of sad to leave our hotel in Kochi as it…
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Barb and Baden’s India Adventure – Part 5
As I was writing the final chapter of our India Adventure, I started to feel that it was getting quite long so I broke it up into two sections, this being the first. The Park It was really cold. It’s what I remember the most.…
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Barb and Baden’s India Adventure – Part 4
The Food Let me start out by saying that Barb and I love Indian food. When we were planning the trip we expected that we were going to experience a far greater variety of dishes from various regions of India and so far that has…
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Barb and Baden’s India Adventure – Part 3
Catching Up Although I last posted Part 2 of our India Adventure yesterday, so much has happened in the past day that I want to write about. I’m writing most of this section at about 6 AM on Monday morning. I find that this is…
