Backcountry Roads on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales
May 31, 2016. A drive along a series of twisting backcountry roads on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. Leaving the collection of several medieval structures at Penmon, we passed […]
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Horseshoe Falls and a Hidden Church in Llangollan, Wales
The Lens-Artists Challenge this week is ‘Getting Away’, and I realize that, although the restrictions of staying in our own region of the province (BC) were lifted June 15, we […]
Touring Death Valley in California
“Travel prepared to survive,” the National Park Service gives as advice on travelling through Death Valley. The name of Death Valley is a clue; it starts with the word ‘Death’. […]
A Trio of Tiny, Perfect Towns in Northeast Wales
May 28, Saturday. (Route map at the end of the post.) A good chat over breakfast with our landlady in Holywell sent us off for a loop drive along secondary roads that […]
Bloody Foreland and the Pass to Glenveagh National Park in Ireland
September 25. Driving on the Donegal Peninsula along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, we had problems finding a decent breakfast, went for a long walk along windswept Traemore Beach, and then […]
The City of Dieppe on France’s Opal Coast
A road trip through Northern France in a sunny June… In June hotels seemed at way more of a premium than we were used to with our ‘book-as-you-go’ travel style. […]
Grönemad on the Bohuslän Coast of Sweden
Grönemad is a tiny town along the Bohuslän Coast of Sweden, a place to stop at on our way to Grebbestad. The typical granite cliffs of the Bohuslän Coast with the […]
Tracking Down the Past: Making Ice Cream (Denmark & Vancouver)
In 2018 Al & I headed to Denmark and Sweden with the idea of meeting up with my aunts and uncles and cousins, and also to track down some of […]
A Batch of Beaches on the Wild Atlantic Way in the North of Ireland
September 26. This day we followed the Wild Atlantic Way (WAW) route along a batch of beaches on the northwest coast of Ireland: Maghery, Portnoe, Ardara, Malin Beg and into […]
Kinsale in Cork County, a Colourful Irish City
October 9. The instructions to find the Rockview B&B in Kinsale were, “if you’re coming from Skibbereen look for the white house, go left and that’s the Glen Rockview…” Al […]
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