Jan 22
After completing our last season as managers at the Beaver Island Lodge, we were exactly back where we were 10 years ago when I wrote the story “Wide Open Spaces Ahead of Us”. Our first trip then was also to Nashville, where Han’s oldest friend in the US had moved to. Sadly Ric passed away …
Apr 09
Our transatlantic Princess cruise 2025 intentionally ended in Southampton UK, as it was about a two hour drive from my long awaited dream of visiting Seaton Village in the UK. Caught a taxi to the airport to pick up our rental car, which I was not on board about but Han really wanted the car. …
Apr 30
Remembering the good times we had during our first winter on Beaver Island during Covid, and the fact that we have made deep friendships with some other “islanders”, combined again with the fact that it had been an exhausting vacation season at the Beaver Island Lodge, AND the fresh memory of our disastrous Pacific cruise, …
Apr 06
Port of Call: Papeete, Tahiti The Islands of Tahiti constitute of the 118 islands spread over a surface as big as Europe. The best known 3 islands are Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora. These volcanic islands are located in the South Pacific Ocean, in the heart of the Society Islands, also called French Polynesia. From …
Apr 03
Port of Call: Apia, Samoa This capital city of former French Samoa with about 36,000 inhabitants, situated itself in 2011 just across the international dateline, which of course meant we lost a day we never got back.😂 For those of you who don’t know how globally confusing this whole ordeal, introduced in 1884, can be, …
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