Travel related: Canada, USA, , Mexico, Central / South America, Europe
○ Cruising, RV, Weekend
We have been enjoying the 1,000 year old history of Spanish Castles and 2,000 year old Roman Ruins during our snowbird escape to Costa del Sol – the sunny south coast. See two previous history articles: Fuengirola Castle, Roman Ruins The Alcazaba of Malaga, Spain; Islamic Muslum style castle from 11th centry, which is more […]
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This old Castle (el Castillo Sohail) dates back to before 1000 CE is located in Fuengirola, which is the town we are snow-birding in for a few months. Its not as fancy as some of the other castles in Spain, because the ruins are older, but the protective walls are impressive to picture in an […]
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Our Canadian snowbird escape this year took us to Spain in Europe. We enjoyed the sunny Costa del Sol area in the Mediterranean a few years ago when we visited for a few weeks in the spring season, and realized that they have a mild winter season which is more like our spring or fall […]
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Some reflections on our 1st year of retirement, which began on Jan 1, 2023: Although everything went pretty much as planned, the biggest surprise was the strange psychological feeling that it was too good to be true, and we might get caught – sort of like playing hooky from high school, and the principal would […]
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My DNA ancestry test revealed that many of the people who consider their ancestry to be in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and coastal Spain, actually originated from the Persian Plateau area of the Middle East, about 25,000 years ago! This northward migration happened as the Ice Age was receding and plants and animals were being […]
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Wikipedia has a sister site called Wikivoyage for travelers. The more I use Wikivoyage to investigate and plan travel destinations, the more I realize my old faithful paper travel guides, like Lonely Planet, Frommer’s Guide, etc. are now obsolete! The whole world is at your fingertips. It’s better than TripAdvisor because it is not trying […]
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Would you share a kitchen with your neighbors? A unique housing development with a community of mixed ages and backgrounds, who share many common resources, has just welcomed its first home owners in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada. The 30 condo homes (1-3 bedrooms), have the shared use of a 5000 sq. ft. “common building” and […]
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One of our YES friends, Murray, decided to sign on to a classic “age of sail” tall ship for three months when he retired a few years ago. The “Picton Castle” is a square rigged Barque ship that provides appropriate training to able bodied people of any age that are looking for a truly unique […]
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The beautiful tall ship “ARC Gloria” from Columbia, visited the port of Halifax, NS for the past few days. Today the crew was very busy taking down the night lights trim, and climbing in the rigging. It was fun to hear the traditional naval whistle in use to communicate signals to the various crew. (takes […]
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A very popular white sandy beach in Nova Scotia is the Summerville Beach. It features very flat beach walking for many kilometers in an area of luxury resort accommodations. Even surfing and paddle boarding. Nearby there is a “free” world class fantasy world attraction in the woods behind the Crosby Greenhouse nursery in Liverpool. It […]
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