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Travel Blogs from Cambridge
The Final Days
... and spent the evening and next morning doing some souvenir shopping in the Historic area of Queretaro. Our favourite spot to sit and observe people was in the lovely lavender garden in the Centro.
We caught the bus back to Guadalajara at noon on Thursday and arrived in Ajijic by taxi in the early evening.
Robyn's house had been rented out for the month of April so we had made arrangements to stay at a new ...
A trip of a lifetime
... on Safari. Imagine having a picnic lunch in Arusha National Park or spending the night in a private camp in a village with the Massai. Imagine the elephants in Tarangire National Park or the over 30,000 large animals of the Ngorongoro Crater. Picnic lunches by the hippo pool and finally the Serengeti National Park. When I asked one of the girls if she was excited today she said that she was so ...
Home Again, Home Again, Jiggedy Jig...
... reveal the bike in all its muted glory. The storage oil must be drained and refilled to the correct level before I can hook up the battery that has sat silently charging (hopefully) since my last time home. Although I could never be described as a religious man, it is at this point that I say a silent prayer to whichever influential deity might be listening. The ignition key starts the fuel pump whirring and I wait for a few seconds after it has fully primed, mentally ...
Erin - near Toronto
... on jumping over the gaps in the rock, but she did brave a particularly wide opening with the allure of about a hundred white flowers tempting her across. The flowers were triliums – the provincial flower of Ontario.
After racing out of the forest to try and catch sight of a long double decker train (which turned out to be single decker with two carriages), we got in the car and continued along the escarpment to a point where you could see the ...
Jim & June's Odyssey 091022
... degree), working part-time at a bank, training 15-20 hrs per week and performing every weekend. The team is very talented and has been crowned Canadian Champions for 23 out of 25 years. They are so good that they are regularly invited to demonstrate their skills in the USA. We took Brandon (a grandson of our friends Jim & Della) to the game and after a 37-18 win by the “Stangs” we all ...