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After our lovely Saturday evening in Prague, I started my journey home Sunday morning – but not too early! The three of us had a quick breakfast at the airport, which wasn’t cheap, but surprisingly good. Then we headed on our separate ways. The girls are staying in CZ for an extended period. I missContinue reading “Returning Home”

Kutná Hora is a town about 50 minutes from here. We wanted to do a little day trip that wasn’t too far away since I’m working in the afternoon this week (Calgary hours – so starting around 3 PM here). We had a really enjoyable day out, seeing the popular sights that we’ve seen beforeContinue reading “Kutná Hora-UNESCO World Heritage Site”

This is a very special and unique time to be in Europe in summer. Always the busiest season for tourism with packed attractions, restaurants, lines everywhere and sky high prices, this quiet summer of 2020 will be one for the books. We spent a beautiful summer Saturday seeing some of the classic sights of PragueContinue reading “Prague Without Tourists”

4 short months ago, this would have been the same old trip as usual. The same type of trip that millions of people around the world were taking every single day. How so much has changed since then. First, this trip was delayed and changed many times, initially due to the pandemic itself and needContinue reading “Global Travel and Coronavirus”

The next stage of our trip brings us about an hour east of Cape Town to the Cape Winelands. We stopped for lunch at one of the first wine estates on the way, Vredenheim. In addition to high quality, inexpensive wines, they offered delicious estate made grape juice for kids in the tasting room, aContinue reading “Cape Winelands – mostly”

We had one final morning of unsettled weather so we headed over to the Two Oceans Aquarium mid-morning on Boxing Day. A lot of other people had the same idea, too – the place was pretty packed! We got to walk through an interesting skeleton made completely out of scavenged plastic – bottles and jugsContinue reading “Pizza, Penguins, and a Party”

This is a trip we’ve been looking forward to for what feels like a long time. After one short flight and two long ones, that didn’t go as smoothly as our previous very long trip in April (Elinka now happily says about this weekend’s journey: “I threw up on two planes! At the end andContinue reading “You’re going where?”

We took off for a 4 day weekend in sunny San Diego this past weekend. We wanted to get away somewhere that we could be pretty much guaranteed good weather, but not too hot, and less than 6 hours travel time per direction. Success! Of course, we hit the famous San Diego Zoo. It’s definitelyContinue reading “Long weekend in the Sun”

We got in our bonus stop! Our final stop is in London. A great view of the city greeted us just before arrival – then we headed into Central London and went on a great walking tour from Tower of London across Tower Bridge, then along the South Bank to Westminster. It’s a great walkContinue reading “A Short Day In London”