I had never been to India and an invitation to participate in a conference at IIT Gandhinagar in the Gujarat was too great an opportunity to pass by. Centred on Ahmedabad and the Gujarat's capital city, Gandhinagar, attending the conference gave me a tiny window into the culturally and environmentally diverse country that is India. …
Australia adventure part 2
Well, its been a week since my last posting and tomorrow we head off back to Canada. I miss my kids, but I'm reluctant to say goodbye to this wonderful part of the world. It has been a busy week. We arrived back in Adelaide on Monday evening, quite late after our week on the …
Sunny South Australia
Here we are, a mere eight months after we said our fond, slightly misty eyed, farewells to Adelaide, once again in beautiful South Australia. This time around, there are only two of us. Sadly, because of the school year and the nature of the trip, we had to leave Rowan and Pippa (our erstwhile and …
A Newfoundland embrace
By Rachel It had to happen sometime... Last week we arrived in St John's, our penultimate destination before returning home. Closing the loop of our round-the-world adventure was a bit tough to accept in some ways - it's been such a fantastic year - but we couldn't have chosen a better place to reintroduce ourselves …
Magnificent Isle of Man
By Neil Up until a couple of weeks ago, I had only visited the Isle of Man twice before. The last time was in the late 1980's and it was memorable only for how miserably cold and damp it was. The rain never stopped from the moment I landed until, well, I guess, sometime long …
Castles of the Isle of Man
By Rachel I didn't expect to be wowed by castles in the Isle of Man. After all it's just a small island out in the Irish Sea - not a home of kings or anything. At least that's what I thought. But I was wrong. The Isle of Man is in a prime location for …
An Icelandic dip
By Rachel Tuesday was our last day in Iceland and we were able to finish off our time there with a true Icelandic experience. Reykjavik, like many (most? all?) towns in the country have public pools or baths heated by the geothermal activity for which the country is famous. However Reykjavik has 7 - yes …
Confessions of a railway geek, sort of…
By Neil Okay, I must confess two things here; firstly I am incredibly behind on my blog posts and I'm secretly a railway geek. In the first case, my excuse is that we have been traveling a lot in the past three weeks, meeting old friends and exploring a lot. There is no excuse in …
Reliving Lancaster
By Neil For those who don't know it, I can best describe Lancaster as a small University City in the North West of England, not far from the much heralded Lake District. It is an old city, with archeological evidence of human habitation dating back to the Iron Age and earlier. It was a port …
Water under the bridge; why I loved France.
By Neil It's been just over a month since we landed in France and traveled from Paris down into Brittany. The whole experience was too brief, but so memorable, that I felt compelled to write another post. Paris was marvelous, there is no other word I can think of to describe it. The architecture, the …
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