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Living above The Barber of Seville
It’s been almost one month since our last post on Auckland New Zealand and a busy month it has been. We left Melbourne on 18 December flying home to Boston by way of Hong Kong and experienced our first real travel misadventures of this now almost three year odyssey. Our flight out of Melbourne was […]
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A Quick Trip to Auckland New Zealand
Helen and Sue had visited us in Melbourne and we had no plans to see them in Auckland but the more we spoke on the phone the more obvious it became that we had to visit them as we don’t know when or where we will meet up again. We did stay with them in […]
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Harar Ethiopia seen through Emily’s eyes
After our big day attending church at Abuna Yemata Guh Emily found us another spur of the moment guest house in Mekele. She called and talked to the owner who was an Englishman. His guest house only has three rooms and they were all available so Emily booked without looking at pictures. It was much […]
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Melbourne with Helen and Sue
On Halloween our dear friends from New Zealand, Helen and Sue, arrived. We met them many years ago in Bermuda and have remained friends despite now living halfway around the world from each other. They are the kind of friends that no matter how much time passes between seeing each other we always pick up […]
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Ethiopia, From Churches Underground to Churches in the Sky. This is a must read. Best ever
For those of you following this blog and reading from the email, it would be better for this one to click on the link and read it directly from the site as there are some must see videos. The videos are the best part of this blog. The landscapes of northern Tigray seem to spring […]
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Ethiopia, first five days
In 2009 I took Sandy, Jennifer, Matt and Geoffrey to my birth country right after my 60th birthday. Jason and Emily were unable to go as Jason was a new father for the third time and Emily was in school. I have promised Emily that I would take her to Ethiopia someday. Jason has a […]
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Wandering Melbourne
We have been here for 11 days and decide to run a different direction this morning heading for Fitzroy Gardens which is east of us. The run starts out with three long blocks of uphill running. Fitzroy Gardens consists of 68 acres and are one of the major Victorian era landscaped gardens in Australia and […]
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Around Melbourne and The Great Ocean Road
This post is mostly about The Great Ocean Road but first a two day wander of Carlton Gardens and Fitzroy with Bill & Katiti. Carlton Gardens is a three block walk of long blocks east. Like NYC Melbourne has long blocks going east to west and short blocks north to south. Carlton Gardens is a […]
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Tasmania
Sunday, 20 October we are in an Uber on the way to Melbourne Airport before 5am when Jim sees a text from Jet Star saying that our 6:10am flight has been delayed until 8:10. Instead of turning around and going home for the wait we proceed on to the airport. We had deliberately planned this […]
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Melbourne Australia
We arrive Melbourne on 15 October 2019 at 8:30am having completely missed the 14th. It is springtime here with temperatures in the 50’s and 60’s and misty rain. Our Airbnb is atypical for us as we have booked accommodations in a high-rise on the 23rd floor with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the magnificent […]
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From Newport RI to Newport Beach CA
We left Newport RI October 10 and spent the night in Boston. Morning of October 11 at 5:30am we were heading back to Logan International Airport in an Uber for a flight to LAX. We had booked an Airbnb for two nights in Corona Del Mar which is a seaside neighborhood in Newport Beach. We […]
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Boston, a Whirlwind Stop at Home.
We arrive home to Boston the evening of October 1 taking an Uber to Jenn and Rob’s home in Melrose. Jim has a 9am appointment in Lynn where he met up with his good friend from medical school, Roger Hadley and his wife Donna. Roger was a medical school classmate and is the recently retired, […]
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BMW Berlin Marathon
Saturday before the Sunday marathon we met up at Charlottenburg Palace to do a four mile fun run organized by the marathon planners and open to registered marathon runners and their friends and family. Jim was very reticent about participating but ended up loving it. It was wonderful and fun being among a sea of […]
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Berlin
Day #26 of our road trip is spent driving about four hours back to London stopping for breaks every hour or so. One long stop was in Taunton where Sandy did some shopping and Jim relaxed at an outdoor cafe. Upon arrival back in London we stayed in Richmond which is a suburban town in […]
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Road Trip Day #25, A Harrowing Hike in the Woods.
Today we plan on doing another hike on the south west coast path going from our Airbnb barn to Lynmouth, but this time Sandy is smart and buys maps of the route from the tourist information shop in Porlock. Unfortunately Jim leaves the best map behind when we set out from our barn on this […]
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