Category: Our Views on Travel

Although I was not worried about filling my time in retirement, it was important to me to have meaningful opportunities.  I had very few criteria; I wanted to nourish my love of teaching, I wanted to incorporate as much travel as I could, and I wanted to find ways to give back through volunteer work….

Ken and I love to meet new people on cruises.  Friends enrich the experience beyond the daily sites and activities and elevate it to another level.  Our most recent cruise offered up a treasure trove of fascinating friendly people that shared excursions, dinners and more than a few drinks while at sea.  We agreed to…

When it’s time to get away from it all and just relax an all inclusive resort is the go to choice for many travelers.  We haven’t tried it (I think I would be bored), but millions cannot be wrong, so I decided to get a more unbiased opinion.  I reached out to our friend Joy…

Early in the morning we received an urgent message that our friends had secured a table at the rear of the ship for us to use as we travelled through the Suez Canal.  Since it was an important part of our itinerary, and a bucket list item for all of us, their eagerness was understandable.  We were…

Ancient Egyptian beliefs hold that east is the direction of birth and the west is death.  On the second day of our overnight excursion we travelled west across the Nile River to visit the the Valley of the Kings, burial spot to many of ancient Egypt’s best known pharaohs. Valley of the Kings was part of the ancient…

“ Yalla beena” is an Egyptian saying that means we go together.  Although our guide Ahmed used it during our overnight excursion from Safaga to Luxor to ensure we stayed together and moved as one, it came to mean so much more for our intrepid group of travelers. The opportunity to stay overnight at a hotel on…

Dubai is such an eclectic mix of the new and modern and the old and traditional.  The sights, smells and sounds were exotic and intoxicating for us Canadians escaping the winter dark and cold with the brilliant sunshine that supported the midday heat an added bonus. One of the first perks I found in retirement…

Since we started this blog in December 2018 a lot has changed; with us and with the world. We still travel and now that I am retiring we will travel more often.  We appreciate the freedoms we have so much more now since it was taken from us during the global pandemic.  I hope at…

Our time aboard the Norwegian Dawn was extra special since we were given a perks package that included the Specialty Dining Options.  Under normal circumstances we would not indulge (I am far too frugal and find the complimentary dining more than acceptable) but it gave us the opportunity to discover why these are such popular…