Just back from our fabulous trip and planning to start to tell the tales of our visit very soon. Meanwhile I hope you all will have a great 2019. Riki
Read more "Wonderful trip to East Africa Pt. 1 coming soon"I left you at the Rimrock Hotel in Banff. Now the amazing thing about this place is that it is ranked very high on many travel sites online, and travel magazines like Travelers Condé Nast. We really did not like it, and found it below par. So how then do we trust these rankings? Or […]
Read more "Fun and Travel with our British Friends Pt. 2"I have written before about our good friends, Stewart and Barbara from Lancashire, particularly our great trip to Italy with them. See: https://suddenly70.ca/2016/10/09/viva-italia-part-1/ https://suddenly70.ca/2016/10/17/viva-italia-part-2/ https://suddenly70.ca/2016/10/31/viva-italia-part-3/. You will have a better idea of our relationship and our ease in travelling together after checking out these earlier blogs. We have now done 6 visits/trips with them and […]
Read more "Fun and Travel with our British friends"After our sojourn in Greece we headed northwest to Italy, specifically Brindisi which is on the Adriatic coast. There is not much to see there, but about 40 minutes away is Ostuni, nick named the White City. This is not to be missed, as they say, however, we did skip it, because previously on a […]
Read more "Wonderful cruise to Greece, Croatia and a little bit of Italy PT. 2"The best thing about a cruise is that you unpack once. I am a pretty organized traveler, and don’t usually take too many clothes, but no matter how little I do take it is nice to just settle in. That being said, I always plan a few days in the embarkation port to get over […]
Read more "Wonderful Cruise to Greece, Croatia and a little bit of Italy"Just back from a wonderful holiday in the Mediterranean and looking forward to sharing, but crazy busy now at home before guests arrive from the UK, and we all head West to the Rockies. Tally ho as they say. More to come… Riki
Read more "Wonderful Cruise to Greece, Croatia and a little bit of Italy"It is already mid August, and soon summer will be over. How did that happen? Now it seems I am trying to squeeze all the good summer things out of the next few weeks, just as I am squeezing all I can out of life. Once you hit your seventies things change subtly like waking […]
Read more "Summer in the City 2018 Part Two"