When I left you in my previous blog , https://wordpress.com/post/suddenly70.ca/11463, I promised to tell you about our trip home with the parcel. As you know, you can’t take liquids on the plane, so we had to figure out how to take the olive oil that Olivier brought us. Charles is always very clever at these […]
Read more "Globe and Mail Trip Pt. 2"Heading to France this evening. When I return I will tell you about my adventures there and also about my spring here in Toronto. Cheers! Riki
Read more "On vacation"Our stay in Venice passed quickly enough and we were excited to join the rest of the group onboard the Emerald Azzura that was docked in the Giudecca canal, at San Basilio, a port for smaller ships. The folks onboard called the Azzura a luxury yacht, in fact for us it was just a small […]
Read more "Globe and Mail trip continues"Have you noticed that every year spring comes faster? Well there is spring and there is spring. Quite profound I know, but some years spring in Toronto just doesn’t happen. We go from cold and chilly usually when we return from Florida, to steamy hot. This year spring is really slow to develop. Lots of […]
Read more "Spring 2023"I often muse about what makes life good. I am now a senior, some would say old, however, I feel like a young woman, well maybe not young especially when I am exhausted after a round of 18 hole golf, or start to feel little aches and pains. I have had a partial knee replacement, […]
Read more "Quality of life"We had booked a barge trip before Covid and finally decided to take it this past summer of ’22 after our Globe and Mail trip to Bordeaux. A little crazy it seemed, but we were already in France and just needed to fly from Bordeaux to Paris to meet up with the Barge people at […]
Read more "Barge Trip in Champagne"The next morning there was a particularly interesting session with the Globe Publisher, Phillip Crawley, about a front page headline referring to the new LIV golf tour. I took part naturally because I have been following the drama of this new Saudi sponsored tour. I also spent a bit of time talking about the arts […]
Read more "Bordeaux Cruise Pt.3 with the Globe and Mail"The last picture of my previous blog, Part 1 of the Bordeaux Cruise sums up how happy we were to arrive at the ship, and how happy we are in general. I love that picture! We settled in our cabin on the Scenic Diamond. If any of you have ever been on a River Cruise […]
Read more "Bordeaux River Cruise with The Globe and Mail Part 2"The fall turned out to be very busy. Concerts were happening in halls, and restaurants were open indoors, all of course allowed if you were vaccinated. And we were. So we decided to attend an absolutely brilliant concert of the Sondheim musical Follies. My dear friend, Richard Ouzounian, had been telling us about the performance […]
Read more "Autumn in the City"It was a beautiful summer here in Ontario, but now fall has arrived with lots of rain and a real unpleasant chill in the air. I promised to tell you about our visits to Stratford and other events that took place in August. Things are changing in the Covid department, in that fully vaccinated people […]
Read more "Summer 2021"
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