Hi! We are Lisa & Douglas traveling and enjoying life one day at a time cause it's a Big Amazing World!
This morning Douglas ventured out to look for the recommended organic bakery, ‘Alexine’ which is just around the corner from our hotel. We had croissants & palmiers for breakfast every morning. This shop won an award in 2016 best baguette competition in Paris. In Paris, everyone seems to be carrying a baguette and most…
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Day 1: Paris e arrived in the City of Light on a cold, drizzly, dreary day. Where is Spring- it’s May 11th? Checked into our stylish hotel, Terrass, http://www.terrass-hotel.com/ on the hill in the village of Montmartre, picked up a croissant and walked to Sacre-Coeur – Sacred Heart Basilica that looked like a giant white castle…
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These past 2 weeks in Bali have flown by so quickly and our days & evenings have been filled with new experiences and the effortless flow of life on the island. Hanging out in quiet Sanur beach We headed to Tulamben in East Bali to snorkel around the US Liberty ship which was sunk by…
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Yangon is like stepping in to a time warp. Burma’s largest city is filled with street markets, crumbling colonial mansions and ramshackle deserted government buildings. There are no motorcycles, no ATMs, no large department stores and no fast food chains. The only foreign currency accepted is US $. Hotel accommodations are limited, Internet access is…
View MoreSo you may remember from a previous post, Lisa and I had signed up for a “pre-canned” tour of the temples close to town, but we adjusted this with short notice and instead rented a driver and a car for $35USD and a Tour Guide for $30USD through the hotel and started our day at…
View MoreAs they say, only “mad dogs and English men” go out in the hot noon day sun. Well, Lisa and I were feeling a bit English and went to this temple in the peak of the heat. On the bad side, its very hot, but on the good side many of the tourist and especially…
View MoreBanteay Srei temple is the exquisite “Women’s Citadel” about 32kms from Siem Reap. It was one of Cambodia’s last major Khmer temples to be found “again.” It is a small temple, but has some of the finest stone carvings of any of the temples. It has been partially restored, so there are some original carvings…
View MoreI arrived at the airport, went through immigration, and was on my way in the hotel van by 2pm. The hotel was the Tara Angkor that is out of downtown, but on the way to all of the temples. Lisa did an outstanding job choosing this place and arranging to have pick-up. It sure makes…
View MoreHere is a snap of our hotel. If eating at the hotel, you could dine inside or in this courtyard. In the background is the raised pool. Nice elephant, eh? While we were at Tara Angkor, three different tour groups rolled through the hotel, a French one, a Russian one and a USA one. I…
View MoreAs the Beatles song goes, “grabbed my, my hat, made the bus in seconds flat…” I like the HK airport, besides having a couple of Popeye’s Chicken restaurants and three or so tiffany’s, its easy to get around. To get to Siem Reap, I ended u p going through Bangkok with the first leg being…
View MoreThere are a lot of problems with blogging. A lot of folks don’t really know how much work it takes. Whilst in Australia and visiting new Zealand, I didn’t blog, but instead just posted a subset of photos on facebook and wrote captions. It seemed like a fair number of my friends liked this. But…
View MoreSo here I am sitting in the British Airways ‘special’ lounge in the SFO airport. “How did I get here?” Well, I was able to use miles to boost myself a free business class to Hong Kong and an economy back (due to availability ). Having abused my citi AA mileage credit card for the…
View MoreBula! My daughter Ashleigh was visiting this week so we decided on a whim to spend a few days in Fiji- which is only a 3.5 hour flight from Sydney, similar to travelling to the Caribbean from the southern states. Since this is Ashleigh’s final semester at A&M and I’m celebrating my b-day for a…
View MoreMrs Macquaries Chair is a famous attraction on Sydney Harbor. The story is that the wife of the first Governor was so homesick for England that she would sit on the edge of a peninsula and watch the ships. Her husband then had men carve a chair for her out of the sandstone there. Alas,…
View MoreLisa’s Sister had arrived on Friday morning from the states and Lisa and I had been keeping her busy for the next two days. She had had one request before heading over in that she wanted to do a walk about. Lisa eventually explained to her before her arrival that a walk about was a…
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