Fair warning: this post is photo-heavy. Click on any of the pictures to see a larger version. I mentioned in my previous post that I’d just returned from a cruise, and this one was different from the ones I’ve previously taken with my husband. For one thing, this time he […]
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… that I’m afraid of heights? Yup. I used to take students to Europe every couple of years, and it was such fun — until I had to go up into the Eiffel Tower or something else that was very tall. Cue the wet palms and racing heart — I […]
Last weekend my husband and I flew to San Francisco to meet our younger daughter and her fiancé for a weekend of wine tasting in Calistoga. We’d never done that before, and we loved it! The scenery was gorgeous, the weather was beautiful, the company was great, and the wine delicious. […]
I’ve been away with my husband on another cruise, this one in the southern Caribbean area. We sailed out of Colón, Panama, on a Royal Caribbean ship, Oasis of the Seas. Before the cruise, we spent a night in a resort hotel in Colón, and I was delighted to see […]
Our final stop in Norway was in Stavanger. We visited a museum detailing how the oil industry works, another museum that showed the sardine canning process, and the old part of town with its wooden houses. This was part of the shopping area — really pretty! The following day was […]
We spent most of one morning cruising the scenic fjords — and I can’t begin to express how beautiful they are! Here is a shot of one of the magnificent waterfalls we saw. That afternoon, we visited Haugesund, which hadn’t been on our original itinerary but was added when a […]