IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED …
Photo: Marcy Wielfaert It is a case of trying for the perfect picture, one we could enlarge and print for the living room, so yesterday evening we drove for the third time to the New London Lighthouse. We were encouraged when our family gave positive comments on the picture you see here, but somehow, we […]
FACES MADE FOR RADIO
I talked Marcy into trying to produce some snappy video narration. I had this vision of producing a compelling travel video that would gain many viewers. I think we may stick with our day jobs. Click the link below and judge for yourself.
OUR FAVORITE PLACE
Today, I write this blog entry from our favorite place, Prince Edward Island. The skies are dark and somewhat brooding right now and the wind is blowing off the North Atlantic. However, we know that soon the clouds will thin, revealing a north latitude powder blue sky with a sweet clean smell, one that evoked […]
YAH-HOOIE!
Last winter, when we signed up for Germany/Austria, the tour itinerary listed an optional “Yodeling and Tyrolean Slap Dance” event. Never having sharpened our taste for yodeling and certainly not knowing much about the Tyroleans, we did not sign up. Once we arrived in the country though, we were immersed into the Teutonic sensibility of […]
GONDOLA RIDE
Our gondola ride was much more than we could have ever imagined. The travel videos and National Geographic articles cannot capture the nuance of sight and sound nor the sense and emotion of being transported along these ancient waterways. The voices of gondoliers calling to each other, the sun and breeze on the Grand […]
VENICE
In “The Art of Travel”, Alain de Botton wrote: “Travelers set off to investigate. In 1739, the poet Thomas Gray undertook a walking tour of the Alps, the first of many such self-conscious pursuits of the sublime, and afterwards reported, ‘In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have […]
