We were fortunate to be able to borrow Neil’s friend’s cottage at Lake Rousseau for the Easter long weekend in March 2016. Doubly fortunate, Grandpa and Tita Christine took care of the kids while we were away. To this day (2020), the kids reminisce about that eventful weekend, including: There was a power outage due to […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The kids have heard us talk about my condo. These are the pictures the real estate agent took for the sale. The listing went up on the day I left to meet Neil in Amsterdam for a week’s vacation (convenient timing for showings). The condo was sold four days later, while we were still in […]