Monthly Archives: December 2017

Deep Spain and Northeast Malta – the Malta part

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Returning to Madrid Most of us parted ways when our bus arrived back in Madrid. Several hours of daylight remained and Jane and I decided to have one more walk about the city and share a late dinner. She accompanied …

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Deep Spain and Northeast Malta – the deep Spain part

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Morning in Madrid and a ride to Gredos In the morning, Jane and I met another of our group’s volunteers, Chris. Perhaps to his regret, he accepted our invitation to join us as we traipsed about the city.  As we …

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Deep Spain and Northeast Malta – the Madrid part

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A different year In a typical year, I take one significant trip but 2017 was a bit different because after carefully considering my original plan to travel to and through the four states I needed to visit to raise my …

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Enough of this smoke. I’m outta here – Part 4 – The finale

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Family of Man Since the Calgary Herald story mentions the Family of Man, perhaps I should, too. Or, since they likely do a better job of it, let me quote this CBC Calgary article from 14 May 2016: Since their …

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Enough of this smoke. I’m outta here – part 3

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Family of Horses I didn’t have any particular plan in mind when I set out from the NMC. It was mostly sunny and warm but not hot so I thought simply wandering – at least to start – might be …

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