Tag: Canon
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Lighthouses and Fall Colours
Another beautiful day means another road trip to a new part of the island. We started out our day by heading to the Summerside COVID testing site for our mandatory follow up COVID test after our arrival in PEI. Negative again. Their organization and no nonsense approach to the whole situation is quite refreshing. After…
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China Impressions
It has been an interesting, enlightening, and entertaining month in China. The first 18 days were doing a private tour organized through Wendy Wu Tours, with the final 10 days being at a house sit in the city of Qingdao looking after three dogs and three cats. I love history, but both Karen and I…
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The Great Wall of China
What trip to China would be complete without a visit to the Great Wall of China.
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People of China
First off, I need to get on my soap box for a moment. We utilize Trip Advisor a lot when planning our trips and Karen contributes a lot of reviews on places we have been. One of the funny things about reading a lot of the reviews about China is the indignation when people find…
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Gardens by the Bay
During our first visit to Singapore in 2016 we did very well racing about seeing as many sights as we could during our brief 35 hour stop over. However, on this trip with a 10 day house sit, we have time to savour more of this amazing city and catch some of the sights we missed…
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Adelaide, South Australia
We have arrived and settled in to our latest house sit in Adelaide. We had briefly stopped here a couple of years ago and are happy to be back with more time to enjoy what the area has to offer. Unfortunately we seem to have brought the rainy weather with us and every trip out…
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Relocating….Again
After enjoying three great house sits over three months in Perth it was time to change locale once again. One of the main reasons we returned to Australia for another year was that we never got out west in the first year we were here. But, as well, we didn’t get to spend much time…
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Appreciating Local Heritage
From our house sit in the community of Bassendean we have been ideally located to do some sightseeing. One of the pleasant surprises was finding the convenience of the transit system and the helpful, friendly Transit Officers working the train lines. Whether taking the train into Perth and Fremantle or driving around Guildford and the…
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Rottnest Island
We have heard we are currently experiencing the worst winter in Perth in a number of years, so we counted ourselves lucky to be able to get out to Rottnest Island on one of the few sunny pleasant days. Other than a few isolated areas in Western Australia, and a few islands off the WA…
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Fremantle Prison
We finally made our way to Fremantle and our first order of business was to check out the World Heritage Fremantle Prison. One of the most striking things about this prison is that it was in full operation until 1991. Bear this in mind as you see some of the photos of the facilities and…