Monthly Archive: July 2010

So here we are again, sitting in a terminal at the end of a trip. Our passports now record trips to Europe (2006), New Zealand North Island (2007), France 2009, New Zealand South Island...

I’ve loved Northern California and San Francisco since I had four days here fifteen years ago. They were still repairing earthquake damage in 1996, but San Francisco shone above the double-dip recession this week....

I wouldn’t bother with a blow-by-blow account in normal circumstances, but the trip into the airport was crowned by visiting the Mall of America (aka Maw of Amerika). I have to share the disabled...

We’re sitting on the back deck at ‘Nepean’, enjoying the company and the peace of the Lake. We’ve had a most relaxing couple of days: from the moment we touched down in Minneapolis, it’s...

I’m writing this in part standing in Century 21, the massive discount clothing store opposite the huge building site that is the World Trade Centre. Notice the number of superlative adjectives in the previous...

This was the day Central Park hit 103 degrees and nearly took us with it. We decided to attempt an agenda which in retrospect was lunacy, but which was fun until that last 40...

New York is in the middle of heatwave. This is the same city that we often see with snow and skaters, yet here we are, residents and visitors, sweltering with temperatures in the high...

Well, it is pretty fabulous so far – twelve hours after arrival and with a good night’s sleep under our belts – but getting here was not fun. The so called shuttle was a...

We love Banff in any weather, because it’s not overdeveloped and is very reminiscent of Queenstown, New Zealand, on a smaller scale. The natural setting is marvelous and so well-managed that we finally saw...