This info comes from a regular traveler to Morocco "The fall is considered one of the best times to visit the country. Morocco in September begins to cool down and calm down. Warm weather and blue skies become the norm as the country transitions into fall, and most tourists return to their daily lives. October … Continue reading Best time to visit Morocco?
10 Things about The One in a Million Boy It’s never too late to make a new friend. Everyone has a story worth hearing. No matter your age, you can achieve goals. We all have something to give. Family is not defined merely by blood or marriage. Commitment is not easy, but it will be … Continue reading One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wod
Atlanta surprised us today. We really knew nothing about the city other than we wanted to visit the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. We found a reasonably priced hotel in the Midtown area, a perfect place to stay for city folk like us. We mapped the library and decided it was walkable, about 3 miles, and … Continue reading Jimmy Carter Presidential Library
Tourism is the main industry in Croatia these days, but it’s fairly low key. We booked two day tours from Dubrovnik, one to neighboring country of Montenegro and the other to Bosnia and Herzegovina. As we were staying at an AirBnB in the old city which is totally care free. We were told to meet … Continue reading
Here is a movie I look forward to seeing - The Bookshop. Read this review in today's paper. I love the reviewer's description: “The Bookshop” doesn’t lend itself to easy explication. Like the best novels, meaning is to be savored, not summarized." How perfect is that? Sometimes when I am writing a book review, I try … Continue reading “The Bookshop” – like a classic novel
The variety and quality of things to do amaze me. I've mentioned the Cape Cod College Baseball League and the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, both world class. You can hear a lecture almost daily, something for everyone. Within the last 10 days we attended three talks. At the Truro library we heard Peter Kornbluh … Continue reading Cape Cod is an amazing place
A woman about my age becomes a queen. Lisa Halaby was born to a prominent Arab-American family. Her great-grandfather emigrated in the late 1800s and her grandfather was a successful importer and associate of Stanley Marcus of the Nieman Marcus stores. Her father was head of the FAA under JFK and later president of Pan … Continue reading Leap of Faith, Queen Noor’s memoir
Well-known novelist Barbara Kingsolver and her family decided to take food sourcing into their own hands. They moved from the desert of Tucson back to a family farm in Virginia and chronicled a year of growing their own food or buying from local sources. What they couldn’t produce or find, they’d do without. This is … Continue reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Such a lovely small city – fine climate, everything is so close, prices reasonable, but the people are what makes it happen. I feel fortunate to be here and have the time to take it all in. Around 5:30 am I woke to singing. It sounded like it was on the street, but by the … Continue reading A day in Antigua
We returned from the Coban area today by a very nice air-conditioned bus into Guatemala City. From there we needed to get the one hour ride to Antigua. There are many options and we’d decided ride the local. At the bus station, a little man asked where we needed to go, and when we said … Continue reading The Chicken Bus to Antigua
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