UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 29 May 2014 | Photo Gallery
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ICELAND | Wednesday, 28 May 2014 | Views [2020]
WE COULD SEE A TONGUE OF THE VATNAJOKULL GLACIER from our hotel room in Hofn. Of the five glaciers in Iceland, Vatnajokull is by far the largest, perhaps as big as the other four combined. One hundred miles later we were still driving on ... Read more >
ICELAND | Monday, 26 May 2014 | Views [2010]
WE HAVE SEEN ATLANTIC PUFFINS BEFORE, of course, in both England and Newfoundland. But we always have time for these clowns of the bird world, so we drove north from Egilsstadir to Hafnarholmi nesting site on Borgarfjordur. We expected ... Read more >
ICELAND | Sunday, 25 May 2014 | Views [678]
NAMAFJALL WASN'T ON OUR TOURIST MAP but the plumes of steam were visible from the Ring Road. There were enough cars in the lot to attract our attention but not enough to signal "crowd," so we pulled in. There would be little else of interest ... Read more >
ICELAND | Saturday, 24 May 2014 | Views [1429]
THE RING ROAD CIRCLES THE "PALM" OF ICELAND - this should be easy for you Michiganders to visualize - for some 1300 kilometers. It is considerably longer if you travel up the “fingers” like we have. We shan’t be coming this ... Read more >
ICELAND | Wednesday, 21 May 2014 | Views [1720]
NOT EVEN THAT INTREPID DUO CROSBY AND HOPE ventured upon the Road to Stykksholmur. To our surprise, Sir Clive, our trusty SatNav, knew the way from Reykjavik. Or rather, his way. Clive has acquiesced to our frequent birding stops, photo ... Read more >
ICELAND | Monday, 19 May 2014 | Views [1234]
AFTER A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP AND BREAKFAST we loaded up with brochures from tourist information and sat down to make a plan. (We have no guidebook for Iceland but I am #1 on the library’s e-book waitlist.) We would love to go up to the ... Read more >
ICELAND | Sunday, 18 May 2014 | Views [545]
IT WAS 11:30 PM WHEN WE LANDED to a pink sunset at Iceland’s Keflavik Airport. Where winter daytime in Tromsø, Norway was two hours of twilight at noon, midnight in Iceland is like pre-dawn. I turned on the lights on ... Read more >
ICELAND | Sunday, 18 May 2014 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 14 May 2014 | Views [432]
WE DECIDED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE WONDERFUL sunshine and head to Greenwich and the ferry is a good way to travel while combining London’s sights without the crowds of the sightseeing boats. Big Ben tolled ten times as the ferry slid into ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 13 May 2014 | Views [475]
THE BRITISH MUSEUM HAS ONE OF THE FINEST collections in the world, between six and eight million artifacts courtesy of the Empire’s rapacious explorers and collectors of the 19 th Century. We returned today In search of the remaining 35 ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 12 May 2014 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 12 May 2014 | Views [402]
WE SPENT A FEW DAYS IN GERMANY AT RAMSTEIN Air Base filling prescriptions and satisfying our cravings at the food court with a sample of every unhealthy, wonderful tasting option, something I actually dreamed of while in India. Then it was off ... Read more >
SRI LANKA | Sunday, 4 May 2014 | Views [1583]
FOR ONCE WE TOOK A BIT OF OUR OWN ADVICE – we stayed in Negombo Beach, not Colombo, for our last night in Sri Lanka. Negombo Beach is dominated by three overpriced Jetwing Resorts, the kind of places that American tourists prefer. Not ... Read more >
SRI LANKA | Friday, 2 May 2014 | Views [1932]
KANDY IS THE BUDDHIST HEART OF SRI LANKA. And the Sri Dalada Maligawa, the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, is the center of Kandy. No, it isn’t the next Indiana Jones sequel, but a shrine containing a tooth of the Buddha, snatched ... Read more >
SRI LANKA | Wednesday, 30 Apr 2014 | Views [1759]
IF YOU CAN'T QUITE PLACE “SRI LANKA," it is the teardrop island off the tip of India, the tea and spice island formerly known as Ceylon. And despite its proximity to India, Sri Lanka is definitely not India. Most noticeably, Sri Lanka ... Read more >
SRI LANKA | Sunday, 27 Apr 2014 | Photo Gallery
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MALDIVES | Saturday, 26 Apr 2014 | Views [1630]
DESPITE OUR ELATION AT LEAVING INDIA (I didn't even look out the window as India receded under our wings) I was reluctant to visit the Maldives. Only 200 of the 1200 islands bobbing in the Indian Ocean are inhabited; some are treeless spits of ... Read more >
MALDIVES | Tuesday, 22 Apr 2014 | Photo Gallery
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INDIA | Tuesday, 22 Apr 2014 | Views [1530]
WE WERE HOODWINKED - OR MAYBE IT WAS HORSWOGGLED - by the guidebooks. Both Lonley Planet and Frommer raved about a houseboat tour of the Kerala Backwaters. LP went so far as to rate it the #2 top experience in India, ... Read more >
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