We are home and along with mild jet lag is the surreal feeling of being plucked from one reality and dropped back into our Dunbar lives. ...

We are catching our breath in the inland seaside city of Takamatsu after two eventful episodes in our Japan travels. We came here for a...

Along a stretch of the Kumano Kodo, the pilgrimage route at the south of the Kii peninsula, east of Kyoto and Osaka, there is a sign...

Ok just start writing. We are in the first stage of a month long Japan trip. We flew into Narita, navigated getting a SIM card, got the...

Tomorrow Sue and I head back home. It is May 16 and we ended the Camino ten days ago. Since then we stayed three days in Santiago, three...

It is Thursday, May 4 and we have arrived at Arzua, a small town two days walk from Santiago. This is day twelve and the Primitivo is...

We have completed day 8 of our Primitivo walk and spirits and stamina are still sound. Tomorrow we walk to Lugo and the next day join up...

We are day four into our Camino Primitivo walk from Oviedo to Santiago. Fifteen days and approximately 350 kms. I am sitting at a desk...

A year after last years European and Camino adventure Sue and I are blessed to be back in Europe again this year. After a great three...

I have been back in Vancouver for a little over a week. It has been almost two weeks since I left my friend and Camino companion David...

It is interesting to land in this fairly large city - population just over 1M, home to Airbus and a passionate rugby scene - as we had no...

Our friends Margot Paris and Chuck Brook have been the most extraordinary and welcoming hosts. I first met Margot at architecture school...

Its Thursday March 24 and I am writing in the late, sunny morning on the terrace of our friends Margot Paris and Chuck Brook's...

When I last filed we were on the ICE high speed train passing through the German countryside on the way to Berlin. The trip flew by and...

Catching up on two days is a bit of a challenge. Our last full day in Amsterdam could only be scripted by an urban planner and architect...

The past two days in Amsterdam have been great. Sunny weather, lots of satisfying walking and time in first rate art museums. We have a...

After a full first day in Amsterdam, slightly tuckered, I will keep this brief. We departed St. Ives yesterday and drove about four...

Sue and I headed out first thing to a local grocer who sold great pastries and ground coffee and milk. After breakfast she and I headed...

We headed out from our St. Paul's pad, caught an UBER that deposited us at the Budget rent a car near Euston Station. Not sad to leave...

After getting over day one jet lag we have thoroughly enjoyed the London scene. I am finding writing this blog and trying to be...