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What’s top of my mind: Getting the house and garden to rights. I’ve finally got my strength back after that nasty bug I picked up in Alaska. I’m looking at all that has to be done before I disappear on my next holiday. Fortunately, I have until September, so the situation isn’t dire, but I’ve […]
What’s top of my mind: Nothing. It’s a very calm and peaceful place at the moment, my mind. Where I’m going: to the backyard. Yesterday I finally felt energetic enough to go out into the backyard and do a day’s gardening. I cleared out both patches of warrigal greens and chopped and dropped the last […]
Here is the last view from our balcony. What a beautiful sight to wake up to. I don’t think that any awakening will top our first morning in Banff though, when Megan pulled back the blinds and said, “It’s SNOWING!” That was a great moment. We went down to breakfast and while we were there, […]
What a lovely little place to wake up to! This was the view I saw when I drew back the curtains. It wasn’t a great morning. I was so SLEEPY… After the shenanigans of the first night of our trip, Megan’s snoring and sleepwalking had been fine. But unfortunately, the snoring reached new heights last […]
Our reconnaissance mission two days ago went as planned. Our taxi driver took us straight through to the Silver Seas check-in. Here’s our ship – the Silver Muse. We sat and watched her as we drank coffee, waiting for the check-in to open at 12. There were lots of kids walking around with Didney t-shirts […]
It’s always lovely meeting up with blog readers. We’re guaranteed to like each other – because why read the blog of someone you dislike? – and we can jump straight into conversations without much of that ‘getting to know you’ stuff. At least on their side. As it happens, most of the people I’ve met […]
This is the hallway of our hotel in Victoria, Vancouver Island. If twin girls holding hands suddenly appeared at the other end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised. I spent most of the morning catching up with the blog, leaving the room just as I received an ecstatic message from Megan, who had gone on […]
In the morning, on the way to the Jasper Canyon walk we saw another bear!!! It grumpily headed back into the woods when our huge coach pulled up, but see that black splodge in the middle? Definitely a black bear. The bears’ way of pregnancy is very interesting. Now (May) is the prime time for […]
Today was the day we met our tour guide and our group. The plan was to have a whistle-stop tour of Vancouver before we leave the next day. The first thing of interest that we saw was a very narrow building. It was built out of spite, when the city decided to widen the road […]
What’s top of my mind: My 7th continent! Yes, in a few more days I’ll get the set! Megs and I leave on Sunday. I can’t tell you how incredibly lucky I feel to be one of the few people in human history who will be able to say that I’ve set foot on all […]
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