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This is my third time in Italy and the former two times I always left Italy with the strange feeling that this country owes me something. It was always a good visit, but there was always something missing from the equation that left me yearning for an undefined satisfaction…that is until I hit the coast.…
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So Naples is one of the Italian cities I haven’t travelled to before and it is kind of an odd place, but with interesting historical reasons for the oddities. The first thing is that this city was built as more of a strategic fortification back in the Roman era, and as such it is a…
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Mike and I haven’t toured the Eternal City since our honeymoon, which was 21 years ago, and it was a new experience to be back with our child. As we were quite jetlagged on stop #1 of the world tour, and it was a sweltering +38C, not all exactly went to plan, but it still…
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Well, we are t-minus 9 days to this world trip and, somewhat trivially, I realized that I have nothing to wear. I will be the first to admit that I am not the most stylish person and I don’t particularly relish thinking about what I am going to wear everyday. A bit side benefit for…
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The idea of taking a trip around the world with your family is really exciting and full of adventure, the trouble is once you get started on planning, you realize man there is a lot of prep work. The first question people ask when you tell them you are doing a trip is the itinerary…
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Crossing back over the island we made our way over to Fogo Island. I read somewhere, somewhat romantically, that Fogo was an Island off of an Island, somewhere in the North Atlantic and if that doesn’t make you want to go explore, then I don’t know what will. As an architect, I was really interested…
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We travelled all the way to the northern tip of the island in search of icebergs and vikings to be greeted with a lovely June snow, sleet, and rain, all within one day. However, because the weather was poor, you felt a strange sort of kinship to the vikings who were explorers here 1000 years…
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The Viking trail north to St. Anthony was a beautiful drive along the sea with several interesting stops. The first one we did was to visit the SS. Ethie shipwreck which happened in 1919. The SS. Ethie was caught in a blizzard, (which by my second week in Newfoundland’s spring season here, I can totally…
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Grose Morne National Park is simply astounding and the 3 nights we spent here were some of the best times of week 1. For starters, the days here featured good weather (+13C) for us to frolic around the park in, which if you are spending all of your days outside, seems like a necessity. Secondly,…
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Starting off our 2 week trip to Newfoundland, I have found that life here is just a bit different. Our trip is in the height of ‘Sprinter’ this year with the average temperature in St. John’s being a balmy +3C for the first weekend of June. The strength of the wind at the most eastern…
