The flight was delayed by an hour (because the plane had to get de-iced in Toronto on its way down), and as a result we sat on the tarmac for a couple more hours after landing, and didn’t get home until around 2am 🙁 Neil: Incredibly uncomfortable seats! Maybe try WestJet instead of Rouge, next […]
Bought some sorrel and made the Bajan Christmas drink. Nolan: It was good, but kind of sour and I added too much sugar syrup. Christmas presents in Barbados! Nolan: When I first opened the present and saw the book, I was interested and so I started reading it. It turns out it is quite interesting! […]
Well camouflaged crab. Lara: Sea urchin!! SPIKY WATCH OUT!!!! Nolan: Lara, Dad and I went on a long walk on the beach while Felix stayed home sick with Mom and Grandpa 🙁 Dad almost stepped on the other sea urchin we saw on the walk. Lara: Rocky road!! Nolan: Lara thought that those cool rock […]
Uncle Tony came by to drive us to the grocery store and back!! View from the balcony. We stayed on the second floor of the Sandbox apartment on Brighton Beach Rd. North, St. Michael. It had two air-conditioned bedrooms (most nights, the 3 kids and Grandpa shared a room).
St Petersburg, briefly known as Leningrad, was founded by Peter the Great in 1703. It is associated with the birth of the Russian Empire and is considered the Northern capital. We were fortunate to have a Saturday free in this city, and doubly fortunate that work hired a driver and guide for us for the […]
We landed in Bucharest around noon on Jul 12, were picked up by work at the airport and given a brief tour of the local landmarks. And that was our few hours tour of Bucharest! The rest of the time was spent working. We departed Bucharest for St Petersburg on Jul 15.
In 2015, we were in Barbados from Feb 20-27th with Grandpa. With covid, we’re travelling through our memories now 🙂 This is departure day – getting the kids up and to the airport for 6AM. The excitement of the trip had everyone cooperating.
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 […]
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 […]