Bathing body and soul in Baños
For the first time on our many and varied travels, I was crying because I didn’t want to leave.
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Travel: What’s in store for the children of Cuba?
Now that Cuba and the United States are engaged in talks aimed at normalizing relations, what changes are in store for the socialist experience there? In particular, how will possible changes affect Cuba’s children?
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Romance in Bruges and mussels in Brussels
This summer we explored Belgium and once again fell in love with Jacques Brel.
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Holland: Gouda anyone?
We walked to the wonderful Best Western Hotel Gouda and spent two days in this older, smaller, friendly, traditional Dutch town
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Greece: Agathonisi, where the living is easy
Lucky for us, George happened to have an available room, reasonably priced at 25€ a night with AC, fridge and a patio big enough for a Montreal-style stand up party.
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Beyond Amsterdam to Leiden and The Hague
The thrill of being in Leiden is that it is virtually pollution-free, not poisoned by carbon dioxide fumes from cars: people of all ages ride by on their sturdy bicycles or sail by in boats along the canals toting picnic lunches, babies, and family pets.
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Leros proves to be calm, friendly and bright
We came to Leros with no expectations. It’s just there — a smallish Greek island in the Dodecanese group west of Turkey in the Aegean, close to some of our favourite islands. But we discovered so much more.
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Karpathos – the Greek Island that trumps them all
We know we’ve made that claim before about other islands such as Lipsi. Just call me the girl who cried Heaven!
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Celebrate friendship and romance in Paris
This summer, marked 50 years since my husband, George, and I, then two immigrant nine-year-olds from opposite sides of the globe, met in the hallway of an Outremont apartment building. To celebrate our 34th year as a married couple, we went to Paris. Our window of opportunity was two […]
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Greek Islands: Where life’s a beach, keep yourself safe
That evil sun! We thought it was good to soak up the sun when we were young, and now our pre-cancerous lesions are showing their ugly faces. Irwin and I have both been told by our dermatologist to stay away from the Greek Islands. After four years of warnings about […]
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