Gah! This blogging stuff hurts my head

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Jean

Sitting here on the deck of our cottage at the beautiful Alders on Vancouver, Island.   Mike and kids are down at the beach working on their entry for today’s sandcastle competition and I’m trying to figure out how to … Continue reading →

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Valparaíso – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Jean

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If we’ve discovered one universal truth, it is this:  bus stations are always located in the grittiest, skiddy-est parts of every town, city and village.   Another truth: if there were pageants for ugliest bus stations in dirtiest parts of a … Continue reading →

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The Santiago Slow Down

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Jean

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Yup, you can all (all six of you) heave a great sigh of relief.  This’ll be a fairly short one.   After a couple of months of fairly frenetic travel, one epically long intercontinental flight, and a wacky week of … Continue reading →

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South Island by Storm

Posted on June 10, 2017 by Jean

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Like many of the most memorable moments on our trip, we never really intended to visit the South Island of New Zealand.   Sounded a lot like home we thought, so we opted to spend most of our time on … Continue reading →

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A Middle Earth Birthday

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Jean

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The Newland boys (all three of them) are big fans of the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, so when Mike suggested a trip to Hobbiton to coincide with Tom’s 10th birthday, it seemed fitting.   Throwing budgetary restraint to … Continue reading →

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New Zealand – Hittin’ The Wall on the North Island

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Jean

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Ahhh….New Zealand.   Aotearoa.  Land of the Long White Cloud, the Maori, the All Blacks, the Hobbit, the elusive Kiwi.  You were a hard entry.   Not since September, when we flew Vancouver to London, have we been so entirely, completely … Continue reading →

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North to the Ningaloo

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Jean

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Spoiler alert – this post contains far, far, far too many photos of the beautiful beaches of Western Australia.   It was impossible to stop snapping away like a lunatic – they are just that beautiful and empty and untouched and other-worldly and…0k, … Continue reading →

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Perth…but barely

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Jean

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After booting it out of Thailand, we spent a very odd and somewhat disconcerting night in a grand hotel in Kuala Lumpur that we’d booked on points.  It must have been a 1000-room hotel, complete with balustrades, crystal chandeliers and … Continue reading →

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Island Hopping – Thailand Part 2

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Jean

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With our considerably lightened load, we kissed our pals goodbye and jumped on a Lomprayah high speed ferry to Ko Tao, a tiny speck of an island in the Gulf of Thailand.   We had high hopes for this little spot – … Continue reading →

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Thai-ing One On With Friends – Thailand Part 1

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Jean

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It feels a bit odd to be sitting in Santiago, Chile writing about Thailand.   A lifetime ago. After moving so fast (too fast?) for the last couple of months, it’s nice to be hunkered down in a cozy Airbnb … Continue reading →

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Angkor What?!?

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Jean

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With heavy hearts, we left Sri Lanka….Heavy hearts, that is, until the kids saw the amazing inflight entertainment options on our Sri Lankan Airlines plane.   And again, it was a red-eye with not a wink of sleep to be had. … Continue reading →

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