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Category Archives: Travel

Throwback Thursday – UWO’s Faculty of Information & Media Studies January 2006 MLIS Cohort

[Edit: I have no idea why I posted this on a Wednesday.  I’ve fixed the date.] I’m still thankful that, ten years ago this month, a couple upper year students told me during my first couple weeks of library school that it’s more important to get a photo of the people you start the program with rather […]

Posted 21 January 2016 § Humour § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – The Cost of Living Everywhere in the World in a Single Awesome Graphic

Not sure if this is a “Fun” link but it captures something I’ve been thinking about a lot since our most recent trip to Cuba.

Posted 15 January 2016 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Infographic § Jobs § Randomness § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Throwback Thursday – Kids in Cuba, 5 Years Apart (2011, 2016)

Pace in 2011… Sasha in 2016…

Posted 14 January 2016 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Beautiful Calm Waters in Varadero, Cuba

Shea took this video to try to capture just how beautiful, calm and clear the water was near our hotel on our second last day in Cuba…

Posted 09 January 2016 § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – How Rural Cuba Celebrates New Year’s Eve

This is very different experience to what we had a week ago in an all-inclusive resort targeted at tourists.  (Warning: Some may find the photos in the link disturbing.  Others may find them delicious!) 😉  Actually, maybe not that different…

Posted 08 January 2016 § Family § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – View From An #iberostarvaradero Beach Chair (Jan 2016)

You can even see the two scrapes on my shins detailed in yesterday’s post! 😉

Posted 07 January 2016 § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

10 “Injuries” During Our Cuba Trip

Shea jammed her finger winding up a Christmas spinning toy before we even left but luckily it only hurt for a day. Coming from a long line of Scots, I refuse to pay for something I can get for free. So while Shea goes to a tanning salon before any trip to get a nice glow […]

Posted 06 January 2016 § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “From Alto Cedro, I go towards Marcané/I get to Cueto, head for Mayarí”

Back from a week in Cuba and I have this song stuck in my head. (Funny tangent about how things come around – a good friend of mine was a big fan of the Buena Vista Social Club when they exploded in the mid-to-late 1990’s.  But at the time, I was too much into pretty standard […]

Posted 04 January 2016 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

One Week From Today…

…we will be here:

Posted 20 December 2015 § Family § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “Just add flour/Salt/A little red wine/And don’t forget a dollop of tomato sauce”

My month of unusual Christmas song posts continue with one of Australia’s best known Christmas songs – a song with no chorus about a man in prison wondering what the family Christmas will be like without him… “How To Make Gravy” – Paul Kelly

Posted 07 December 2015 § Family § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,