Atlantic to Pacific via Panama Canal

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Travel to Portugal – 1st trip post-pandemic Really looking forward to (1) using my passport again.

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Walking through Beijing

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I strolled out after breakfast from the hotel and decided to try the subway to one of the largest temples. There are enough English signs to get by but I was the only obviously non Chinese person. 

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Tale of two toilets

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it was the worst of times (or toilets) and the best of times (or the very best of toilets). When I landed in Beijing yesterday afternoon, Lillian, one of the Tauck local guides, met me and made the offer that …

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Walking around Vienna

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Unbelievable serendipity.  I had hoped to see lippanzaner horses but the stallions were at summer camp but while we were walking . . .   I didn’t know that the foals were born brown and turned white later.  More posts …

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Buda at night. Pest

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Nighttime is beautiful, too.  Looking forward to tomorrow. We cruise down the Danube for lunch and then old Synagogue and then to Central Market.  Which is not part of HEB

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Weather is star in Budapest

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Perfect weather will make a perfect trip. I am traveling again on this Tauck tour with my compadre Andy Hey that I met on my Tauck trip in Spain. After lots of sleep, took great walks ( ten miles and …

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Sunshine and Rain (literally and figuratively)

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After my very early morning trip back to the chaos at Heathrow and standing for a couple of hours in numerous snaking lines, I finally was told that getting to Budapest – with my bags – in the waning days …

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Stranded in London

The mass cursing of British Airways may be having some effect, but my puny whining is negligible. Plus, you can’t reach anyone at BA in any event. With bags still missing, I don’t have to take any time in deciding …

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Bilbao. Basque Country

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Apparently, neither my pitiable Spanish nor my fairly fluent English was good enough to clearly communicate among the Basque people. Although most signs weren’t in Spanish, some were in English, and I felt like I was in some other country …

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