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Bucket list travelogue Day 4
The morning hours were spent in the geothermal mineral hot springs outside of Reykjavik. The strange feeling of being in a gigantic outdoor swimming pool in Iceland. After sitting/squatting in the very warm geothermal broth, doing an impression of a potato in sulphuric soup you are supposed to ‘plunge’ into the real very cold sea…
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Look what love has done to me. [The true story of ‘crying Tony’]
We call our travels: Adventures. There remains an element of, ‘we have no idea what is going to happen’. Looking back there could be a searching for reasons, I wonder why that happened? If I hadn’t looked in that direction…if I hadn’t sat there, would this not have happened? ‘It is all a random coincidence’.…
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Bucket list travelogue. Day 2 into 3
There is no doubt that a major tourist attraction of Iceland are the Northern Lights. Since it is completely weather dependent and can’t be scheduled, you ‘take what you can get the day you go out. The moon was so bright and the air almost too clear, even though we drove about 45 minutes out…
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Who goes to Iceland in December?
Coming Soon: ‘In search of the Yule Cat’, a bucket list travelogue of the safest country in the world.
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What Flag is That 12.03.2025
The island republic of Seychelles. It is composed of 115 islands found in the Indian Ocean, 1,000 miles from Kenya Africa and 700 miles northeast of Madagascar. This set of islands was known for centuries to traders who would sail past it. As is common the islands were ‘claimed’ by a number of countries. It…
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What Flag Is That 12.02.2025
The Great Qing, aka: The Qing Dynasty. It was the last imperial dynasty in China, lasting from 1636-1912. After The Qing Dynasty came the Republic of China. At it’s height it had a population of 400 million. In it’s history there were many emperors and world wide shifts. The flag is the Azure Dragon on…
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What flag is that 12.01.2025
Franco-Ontarians (French: Franco-Ontariens or Franco-Ontariennes if female, sometimes known as Ontarois and Ontaroises) are Francophone Canadians that reside in the province of Ontario. The first francophones to settle in Ontario did so during the early 17th century, when most of it was part of the Pays d’en Haut region of New France. It extended from Newfoundland to the Canadian Prairies and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, including all the Great…
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What flag is that 11.30.2025 St Andrew’s Day
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom’s land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. In 2022, the country’s population was about 5.4 million. Its capital city is Edinburgh, whilst Glasgow is the…