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Madagascar #8 – Chama, Chama, chameleon … and more

Dear friends, I thought this would be my final blog, but realized that there is just to much to show from our last few wonderful days in Madagascar. After flying back from the south and our visits to Fort Dauphin and Berenty Private Reserve, we had an overnight stay in Antananarivo, and then set off [...]

2018-05-04T10:41:05+00:00May 4th, 2018|Animals, Culture, Design, Non classifié(e), photography, Tidbits, Travel, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Madagascar #8 – Chama, Chama, chameleon … and more

Visiting Patara Elephant Farm

Dear friends, Just a 40-minute drive from my house is one of the best-managed elephant camps of the many, some 60 in fact, in the area around Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand. As part of my own continuing education about the welfare of captive elephants, I spent the morning there, observing, talking with the [...]

Oman #7 – A voyage, villages and vistas galore

Dear friends, This day our voyage in Oman continued with a magnificent and for some, a nail-biting, drive through the mountains from Nizwa back to Muscat. The views were magnificent, the road challenging and the village of Bilad Sayt nestled under the barren crags very charming and photogenic. From one of the highest vantage points, what [...]

2017-11-16T21:45:28+00:00November 16th, 2017|Culture, photography, Travel, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Oman #7 – A voyage, villages and vistas galore

Oman #2 – Doors, dhows, and a dog

Dear friends, Driving eastwards from Muscat we passed through villages, wadis and towns, sometimes right along the coast, at other times flying along a smooth modern highway. We walked a little in Wadi Tiwi and also in the old port of Sur, and we arrived at the Raz Al Jinz Turtle reserved as the sun [...]

2017-11-11T10:37:15+00:00November 10th, 2017|Art, Culture, Design, Non classifié(e), photography, Travel, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Oman #2 – Doors, dhows, and a dog

NZ Road Trip #15

Dear friends, North, south, east, west ....  this last post about our great New Zealand Road trip, is to share some highlights, make some observations and thank all my friends and family who made it such a fun, fascinating and fabulous trip.  We travelled through both the South and North Islands and covered some 10,000 [...]

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