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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 § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: allinclusive, food

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 § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: allinclusive, holiday

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 § Travel § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: allinclusive, health

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 § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: allinclusive, holiday, music

One Week From Today…

…we will be here:

¶ Posted 20 December 2015 § Family § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Travel § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, holiday, parents, xmas

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 § Travel § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: holiday, music, xmas

Ground Crew De-Ices a Frozen Plane

I couldn’t resist posting this…

¶ Posted 01 December 2015 § Canada § Humour § Photo § PopCulture § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute, holiday

Random Thoughts on the Paris Terrorist Attack

There was a major terrorist attack in Paris on Friday. I have some thoughts… Part of the reason attacks like this have such an impact is that our education system has failed to overcome our innate human nature. I saw this summarized in a great graphic that points out how there are over 6 million Muslims […]

¶ Posted 15 November 2015 § Censorship § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Randomness § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: atheism, education, music, rant

Remembrance Day Takes Many Forms

Remembrance Day is when I think of my Grandpa Peet, a WWII veteran more than any day of the year. And he was at the front of my thoughts even more than usual over the last couple days with the news that one of his three remaining siblings, my Great Uncle Bobby, had passed away in […]