All Posts By: liiling
Phoenix
We’ve been having lots of conversations about past travels so I am going back to post about some of them. We were both asked to attend a conference in Phoenix, Arizona – all expenses paid, including for Christine (our nanny) to come along to watch the kids while we worked. The conference was from Oct […]
Pipi Brewster
Christine helped us solve the “hair in the face, Lara can’t see” problem… see pic from Keith.
Barbados – Nolan’s First
Since we can’t travel due to covid, we’re going to continue travelling vicariously through our memories. In January, 2008, when Nolan was 4 months old, we spent 2 weeks in Barbados (Jan 1-15). We were so fortunate to stay with Aunt Mary and Uncle Tony, and spend loads of time with them. Nolan was a […]
Zanzibar
We had Zanzibar pizza for dinner the other night and talked about our travels there. That prompted me to dig out the photos to show the kids. We visited Zanzibar Island between Oct 21 and 26 in 2006, at the end of our two week visit to Kenya and Tanzania. We spent one evening watching […]
Monteverde: Night Walk, Aerial Tram, Orchid Garden, Coffee Tour
We signed up for a guided night walk in the Reserva Santa Elena on our first evening in Monteverde. Cost was USD17 each, which included transportation from and back to our hotel. Neil writes that the “guide for our night walk, Francesco, was excellent – soft-spoken, knowledgeable, friendly, and he really seemed to enjoy what […]
Guanacaste, Costa Rica
The day after our wedding, we rented a small Daihatsu 4×4 and drove from the resort in the Gulf of Papagayo to El Coco. After that, we headed to Guaitil, a small town where locals make and sell pottery using traditional techniques of the Guanacaste natives. We checked out a local market, and visited the […]
Our house
In September 2004, Neil and I started looking for houses after selling my condo and subletting a one-bedroom apartment at Yonge and Davisville. We started our search for our new home in the East York area and here’s a sampling of what we viewed. I wasn’t keen on the area: street parking, a 30+ min […]