It must be Glasgow because it’s December 9th. These vistas are becoming mixed in my memory but first thing it’s off to Kevingrove Museum where I begin with a completely unanticipated organ concert. It’s raining and foggy of course here in Glasgow....
Skip this post if you’re not into Irish history. My great grandfather, William Verner was a Presbyterian minister in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland in the 1800s. His family fled Ireland at the end of the century–my grandfather, Edwin, left for South...
I’m currently in South Ireland having a grand time….I’ll post more when I get some time off. Yes, there is a town by this name in Wales–a photo-snap I took as the train departed for Holyhead where I caught the ferry to Dublin. Stay...
Meet my fellow passengers: Karin, Gabi, Edith and Daniel. We are required to go through an abandon ship routine and survival suit orientation. The safety raft is the orange boat at a 45 degree angle above–everyone climbs on board and it is literally jettisoned...
Toronto has this big tower–huge–about three times taller than the Space Needle and unlike the Space Needle, this one will be hard to climb. They want $30 bucks to ride up the elevators and denied me access to the stairway when I asked, so I decided...
Traveling in the off seasons has it’s advantages, notably you don’t need reservations nor do you wait in lines. Being a rolling stone who has quit airline extortions, I book an Amtrak to Vancouver BC where my real adventure begins. My first night’s...
