International Travel / Just the Parents / Tanzania
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 […]
Central/South America / Just the Parents
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 […]
Central/South America / International Travel / Just the Parents
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 […]
Just the Parents
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 […]
Just the Parents
The condo
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 […]