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20 jaar 5sterrenovernachtingen in de natuur bijzondere ontmoetingen mooie natuur en gedenkwaardige momenten

Mijn eerste blog vanuit Leiden In dit tijdperk van Covid19 met iets minder bewegingsvrijheid dan we gewend zijn leek het mij leuk eens terug te kijken op al die bijzondere voettochten die ik heb gedaan. Je moet toch wat als die tocht van deze week niet




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46.den madeira

Vcera som pred spankom este zacal pozerat film mama mia no nedopozeral som ho bo prisli do toho dolezitejsie veci.Cornflakes s mliekom a smer cvicisko.Neviem ci som to spominal ale ako som si dal oprat veci tak sa mi zbehol opasok cul ho ledvaj




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Vino de Casa

Let me start by telling you what I have around the house to drink on a normal day. Is there such a thing these days as a normal day Many of you already know my every day sparkler is Veuve du Vernay a brut rose' from Loire France. Well under 10 a bot




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Vang Vieng Home of the worlds best Sandwich

Laotian food is really something special sure in most countries you could go out for dinner and a show. However when you step into Laos the Dinner is the show. Performance plays a big role in Laotian cuisine. Youll likely find a spectacle in e




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Strange Days Indeed

This has got to be the weirdest situation weve ever found ourselves in ehAs global citizens we gotta do our part. Stay home. Practice safe distancing. Wash our hands. Remain calm. Be respectful. Help neighbours. For me it all started when a




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Dundee Beach Northern Territory to Barmah Victoria. January 2020

31st December 2019It has been a while since I last wrote 30th August actually. We were just back from Bali and waiting for the mango season to start. Well we never did get any work but that was OK. Danie has done a lot of




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Derbyshire 92 Chesterfield Boris is back the clouds were social distancing rain ahead for the Bank Holiday

Shall I let you into a little secret oh go on then . I am quite enjoying this walking . Lying in bed unable to drop off to sleep I sorted out in my mind where I was walking to in the morning . The weather whas a let down . Over the past few weeks someone




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Stuck In Lodi Again

Many of you know I was stuck in Lodi one summer back in 1968. I went to summer school worked and played baseball for the local Lodi nine. I never knew much about the town except for some of the players who grew up there. I also knew they produced hu




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Lakes Louise and Moraine Need I say more Canada September 2015

Well our first little one was almost here and Nikkie was really excited to go on a babymoon I mean as if we really need a reason to go on vacation but I guess this was as good a reason as any. As always it was a struggle to decide what to do not too




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Iceland Day 3 the final day

As day three Dawn's upon our souls. We start the journey to the capital. Present in the moment as only Iceland can teach you to do. We follow the highway upon what I expected to be an ordinary drive filled with the same scenery as the days before. Be warn




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Finland Day 2

Finland day two.The hotel is a bustle with people a conference is being held in the hotel. The lobby is stuffed with people groups of people laptops open discussing topics important to them. We make our way to the breakfast bar just off of the lobb




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2018 Bucharest to Amsterdam

July 29 2018. We had lunch on board the boat and disembarked at Kelheim. What little we saw of it was by the Danube and then from the bus windows when we immediately left the city. Our destination was the village of Bielngries where we broke into smaller




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Veliko Tarnovo

I'd arrived in Veliko Tarnovo quite late the night before. The minibus driver had been kind enough to drop us near the centre of town instead of the West Bus Station which is about 5 kilometres out of town. It dramatically shortened the walk to my hostel.




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Derbyshire 93 Chesterfield Hunan ynysig A Simon and Garfunkle hit Is that rain I hear

Is that rain I hear Gently tapping on the window . I cannot hear anything as I lie under the bedclothes . I am sure it is raining . The work of fiction the weather forecaster got it right . April is going out in the way April should go out . Light ra




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ON TOUR Woche 346 Indonesien

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Hawaii

Hawaii with Connie McGhee May 2008Day 1We stayed in a decent resort on the beach and near a little touristy retail area just north of Lihue. The first day we decided to go to Opaeka'a falls and on up to Waimea Canyon. We met a nice couple at the c




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Surviving Covid19 Nacogdoches County Texas USA

A few months ago most people did not know what a pandemic was or how deadly it could become. Just common sense told me that the Corona virus could become a global pandemic with many sick and many would perish. A pandemic is an disease epidemic with a rapi




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47.den madeira

Dnes bude velmi kratky zapisok.Po ranajkach smer cvicisko.Vonku je krasne slnecno.Zastavujem sa v papiernictve medzi dvermi vravim co chcem no na moje prekvapenie mi tetula vravi ze zosit format a5 nemaju. Sa pytala este kolegu. No neviem n




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48.den madeira

Dnes asi este kratsi zapisok ako vcera.Cvicenie sa nekonalo davam si pauzu nech sa zregeneruje telo. Inak pocitovo mam viac sily vacsiu vydrz a uplne taky stastnejsi som. A to spravilo len male cviceniePred obedom vybehnutie omrknut ine papiernic




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ON TOUR Woche 347 Indonesien

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ON TOUR Woche 348 Indonesien

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ON TOUR Woche 349 Indonesien Schweiz

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Derbyshire 94 Chesterfield the day did not start wella skip in the pouring rainrunning out of things to say and do

It was not the aching feet that were stopping me in my tracks . To be fair they were burning . This walking plays havoc with the arches of your feet . It was not my brain working overtime thinking of reasons not to go out . Although it would have been easy




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Holed Up Chez Kaj

It is Day 42 of Californias shelter in place order and while these accommodations are pretty good Im getting tired of staying here.ltem stylemsobidifontstyle normalgtChez Kaj 3 12 starsLocation 5 sta




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Destin Vacation JuneJuly 2010 Just me and Mom

Destin Vacation Just me and Mom JuneJuly 2010Day 1Got up at 0410 and drove down using our GPS. Ate at Shoney's for breakfast before leaving. We got to Destin around 1400. We felt so good that we went grocery shopping. We stopped by our beach for




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Oregon Trip 2011 week of July 4th Just me and Mom

Oregon Trip 2011Day 1We left the house at 0600 and ate breakfast at Shoneys before heading to Nashville. After dropping off the car at Alexis Inn and Suites and after Mom was finally able to get up into the shuttle van lol we were off.The fl




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Mexico Trip Oct. 2012 Rob and I

Mexico Trip October 2012 First trip with RobDay 1We headed to Atlanta at 0900 and had a nice drive down. Since we had our dive gear with us upgrading to first class was not too much more so we decided to do that and it was quite fun. We arr




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Things You Never Knew

To keep your mind off this terrible pandemic here is some totally worthless facts from Travel Trivia MSN and others to fill your hard drive. Although several countries lay claim to the worlds oldest flag the Dannebrog or Danish cloth h




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Trip To Tampa Clearwater

In February 2020 before Coronavirus caused chaos and shut everything down I was able to spend the month in Florida. Most of the month was spent in Amelia Island I'll be writing about that more extensively soon but I had always wanted to see Tampa. The




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Derbyshire 95 Chesterfield Bottom Road 125 days and counting down

Rain it can be quite therapeutic . When it patters on Gabbys roof it can lull you into sleep . When it hammers down it is worse than listening to Ginger Baker and Keith Moon on their drumkits on the roof. It does the garden good . But lying in bed listen




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49.den prechod poiso faja dos cardos

Budicek 630 hodeny do seba jogurt zbalenie pinguin batoha a hor sa odchytit bus c.103 smer poiso.Na tury uz chodim s normalny batohom maly latkovy som odpisal odtrhli sa mi snorky je to provizorne zaviazane ale nic moc.Odchytavam bus na hlavne




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50.den madeira

Dnes je opat krasne rano 1000. Smer cvicisko.Latinak akurat koncil bol tu este chvilu jeden chlapik a neskor dosla fajn baba.Ta robila len cviky na brucho podobne tim co robim na ubytku.Dnes som vynechal bicykel nech si koleno este oddychne




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Baja California Baja California Sur Mexico

Feb 14 2020 Mar 07 2020We left home just after lunch on Friday February 14 2020. Our truck with our 35 square foot casa on the back is packed with the essentials we will require and then some for the next 75 or so days. First stop is Calgary w




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2018 Bucharest to Amsterdam

July 30 2018. Nuremberg. The first stop on our Nuremberg tour was at the Zeppelinfeld originally the spot where one of Count Zepppelin's airships landed thus Zeppelin Field. In 1933 and 1934 it became the rally grounds for the Nazi party. Later Albert S




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Hysterical Journey to Historic Places

FORT GIBSONThe 1830s would have been amusing times to have gone forth in America. In 1821 the Mexicans finally kicked the Spaniards out of their country and began to move forward with plans to settle Texas. In 1824 America responded to Mexican e




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Differing Travel Budgets

Rarely does anyone discuss travel budgets PRIOR to a trip to a far away place. I am so very fortunate to have the inimitable Mr. Mike as the best travel buddy in the universe. We have been all over the world with rarely a hiccup. He knows how to travel




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Derbyshire 96 Chesterfield Today should have been the day that's about all I can say

Today should have been the day. It is going to be a day of would have could have and should have again. We would have been waking up on the park and ride paid our fee to exit and driven the M2 down to the tunnel . We should have been sitting in the car




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Day 07 From Tatsuno to Hiroshima Jun 2019

Saturday 29th June 2019Before heading to Hiroshima in the afternoon I made a brief stop at the town of Tatsuno. This is home to Japan's only Soy Sauce Museum. Access to Tatsuno is relatively straight forward with frequent trains departi




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An extraordinary journey to.....our HOMES

They say a person needs three things to be truly happy in this world someone to love something to do and something to hope for. Tom BodettThe latest statistics from the WHO dashboard published at 0200 am on 1st Ma




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Trip to Destin JuneJuly 2013 Rob me Laurel and Mom

Trip to Destin JuneJuly 2013Day 1 June 29thWe left the house at 0730 and drove a very LONG 12 hours to get there due to traffic. We went and checked out our condo which was really nice then did some grocery shopping. When we got back Rob and




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Trip to Oregon May 2013 Rob Me and Mom

Trip to Oregon on May 2013 Honeymoon tripDay 1 May 25thWe left Knoxville at 1240. We had a very long flight to Oregon that included long layovers. But had some awesome chocolates at the Charolotte Airport. We didn't get to the hotel in Medford




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Day 08 And so my journey ends at Hiroshima Jun 2019

Sunday 30th June 2019Breakfast was a happy affair at Royal Host one of the nicer restaurants in the city that opens early in the day and closes late into the night. I liked how well my scrambled egg turned out to be creamy soft and f




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Day 01 Kuching Aug 2019

Friday 9th August 2019And so here we are on our annual MC retreat to the state capital of Sarawak with some of the nicest people I have ever met in my life. About 40 of us assembled at the airport on National Day 2019 for our flight to Kuching.




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Derbyshire 97 Chesterfield small random acts of kindness The Five tests The R word Here comes the sun E45

Goedemorgen to you all . We would have probably woken up in Belgium this morning having dined on waffles or frites last night . I am sure that the sun would be shining as we rose . The sun has arrived here so the chances are Belgium would have been just as




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51.den madeira

Po ranajkach smer cvicisko. Dva dni po sebe robit tie iste cviky je blbost no co uz.Na plac prichadzalo stale viac a viac ludi. Tolko som tu este nezazil.S vytahanimi rukami smer supermarket.Takze ruska su neni povinne bo dost ludi ich nemalo




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Hysterical Journey to Historic Places

SOMETHING FOUNDOne of the best western movies ever made was called ltem stylemsobidifontstyle normalgtThe Searchers starring John Wayne. It was about a little girl named Cynthia Ann Parker who was abducted by the Comanche




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52.den madeira

Zdrave ranajky salat syr hriby do seba hodene okolo 1100 kedze som isiel neskoro spat.Po jedle dokukanie prvej serie a smer mini prechadzka do parku santa catarina.Vonku opat genialne pocasie.Najskor som sa chcel v parku zvalit do travy al




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Mexico Vacation March 2014 Rob and I

Mexico Vacation March 2014Day 1 March 8thFlight was good. We got chocolates at the North Carolina on our layover there then on to Cancun. We were transferred to Akumal Beach Resort in Akumal where our room was on the 3rd floor of Building 6. Awe




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COVID19 in Cusco Quarantine Week 7

Sunday 26 April 202042 days down 14 to goToday is my mothers 71st birthday. I called her in the morning and was glad to hear that she has a beautiful sunny day in Boise and plans to go outside. Social distancing rules in Boise and com




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Derbyshire 98 Chesterfield walking in the footprint of Wingerworth Hallwhat is the connection between Wingerworth Randolph Hearst and the St Louis City Museum

Did you know that there was a connection between our large 7000 inhabitant village of Wingerworth Randolph Hearst and the a museum across the pond in St Louis No neither did I until I treated our village as if I were a visitor on a first visit . As a v