Intelligence gathering and more… Washington DC

Posted by on Apr 6, 2013 in USA | 0 comments Crossing into the US at Niagara Falls proved interesting, when the Immigration official didn’t know quite what to make of our situation (how can our employer grant us that long for a vacation!?) and asked us to step back into the waiting room while he discussed it further with a colleague.  Eventually we are waved on through, the last back onto the bus before continuing to Buffalo, where we...
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“Don’t miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow looking for that pot of gold.” Unknown.

Posted by on Mar 28, 2013 in Canada, USA | 1 comment Niagara Falls is only around one and a half hours bus ride from Toronto and on arriving into the Terminal we promptly got into a cab for the 10 minute drive to our Best Western hotel which was conveniently located only 5 minutes’ walk (all downhill) to the famous falls.  Yay! The room was about four times the size of our room at the hostel and although it doesn’t have cooking facilities or a...
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“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

Posted by on Mar 27, 2013 in Canada, Iceland, USA | 1 comment Taking in Toronto …. With so much to see and do in Iceland, I was beginning to show signs of organisational overload, and so was seriously behind with arranging lodging and activities for the North American leg of our journey. We originally thought we would fly directly into Florida but Toronto just happened to be the cheapest destination in the North American continent with Icelandic Air,...
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Iceland (part two) – or black and white!

Posted by on Mar 25, 2013 in Iceland | 3 comments   Iceland is monochrome and moody – the black sand of the volcanic beaches and the black lava desert, white as the freshly fallen snow and ice that surrounds everything. But it is also a really colourful place too – in history and nature. There are the most amazing shades of blue – in the ice, the water.  Purple lupins and green moss and little tufts of greenery than would...
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Iceland – not just fire and ice!

Posted by on Mar 23, 2013 in Iceland | 3 comments We were not entirely sure what to expect in Iceland, but we were pleasantly surprised in finding quite a cosmopolitan city full of friendly locals prospering with well-established infrastructure (less so the further away you got from Reykjavik though). Sometimes I did wonder if we had returned to the ‘70s, looking at the style of furniture and wallpaper used, but decided it was more vintage...
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