Travel
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Help send a blogger to camp
… on an island… at the Great Barrier Reef… in Queensland! First things first. Take a look at this video. There'll be a short quiz afterwards. Now. What are these people laughing at? Would you like to see the video they're watching? Carry on below the fold.
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Dreams of a cup of coffee.
One of my favourite coffee experiences involved coffee that was quite unlike any other cup I've had. Every trip that I've made to Cuba included a visit to a 19th century coffee plantation. Isabelica was established at the end of the 18th century by a plantation owner who had fled the slave rebellion in Haiti.
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The House? No the house.
I've decided to do a curling post in the hope that the Curling News links to me and I get to put up big numbers like the indomitable Townie Bastard. I went to the final game of the Canadian Mixed Curling Championships down here in Iqaluit, which I mostly spent distracting the said Townie Bastard
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The other Vilcabamba story
I’m not a really big fan of sleeping under a mosquito net. Oh I know of their utility, and the serious threat in many places by zoonotic diseases, but seriously if it wasn’t important I wouldn’t do it travelling in tropics. I just find them hot and stuffy, and lets face it, the tropics are
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Did the earth move?
I’ve only been in one earthquake. It was disappointing. Only days after the Los Angeles earthquake of 1994 Janice and I were in Vilcabamba Ecuador. It had been a little surreal watching the destruction played on the news on a TV set in Cuenca Ecuador, and staying in a little cabin on the mountains overlooking
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More links than a cartoon sausage
Here are some interesting things for your perusal. First of all, the 67th edition of I and the Bird is up at Trevor’s Birding, from way down under. As always there is a wide selection of bird posts to choose from as Trevor takes us on a holiday around the world. Stop by Murmuring Trees
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Of Cats and Birding Cape May
Cape May New Jersey is one of the world’s great birding spots, somewhere that has been long on my list of places I hope to visit some day. It is no longer on that list, as the city has shown that it cares little for the protection of birds, the same birds that draw thousands
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You ought to be in Pictures. Or not.
Part of my dearth of blogging on late can be attributed to the fact that I was actually out of Arctic Bay for a week, and actually got to go home to Roblin for a short visit with my family, and to introduce Hilary to them. The unfortunate thing is I can’t blog about my
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A journey to Hill 70
The citation for my Grandfather’s Military Medal reads "For conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on August 15th, 1917. Although on reaching the objective, he had only three survivors of his section, he bombed three dugouts, killing nine of the enemy and taking 18 prisoners, whom he kept in the trench until he had organized
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Hill 70
By far the most emotional aspects of my trip to France were the times I tried to walk in my Grandfather’s footsteps. When I stood near where he jumped off at Vimy I was overcome with emotion remembering my grandfather, and failing in my efforts to imagine what it had been like for him that