The culmination point of our adventures due to storm Boris was in Budapest. Although we explored a fair bit of the city, we were drawn to the river. We had long walks around the Danube River banks …

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27.12.2024

Snippets of Vienna – Around Our e-Table

As mentioned if our Vienna blog post the Austrian capital was our hub for this trip. We didn’t stay as long as in other cities, but still had 3 full days to explore just days before the storm…

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23.12.2024

The last train – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: 2024 Fall trip to Europe (Posting just over 3 months later) Sat, Sept 21 Last train for this trip that is. I for sure hope there will be at least a few more.

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14.12.2024

Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia – Around Our e-Table

This is probably the longest video Alex made. Short, dark and cold days would do this to you. But watch it to the end. Weather was perfect and we enjoyed every moment in the city. &n…

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13.12.2024

From YYZ to Bratislava – Around Our e-Table

With a big delay we are back to the beginning of our Fall 2024 trip to Europe. One out of the waiting room, many more still gestating.

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11.12.2024

Prelude to the holidays – Around Our e-Table

Although I still have a post or two on our fall trip (and Alex has a few videos in the waiting room, but given the state of our medical system it’s gonna be a while), just to brighten the short and…

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05.11.2024

Haarlem was a missed opportunity – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: 2024 Fall trip to Europe (Now that the next trip is booked and Alex’s 70th celebration is over, back to our September trip.) In Haarlem at last!

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18.10.2024

Sofia as always was nice, but… – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: 2024 Fall trip to Europe The reason for this short visit was very sad. (The four photos from the mountains are given to me by Vanya, curtesy Ivo and his friend. Ivo’s last photos.)

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13.10.2024

Vienna was a mixed bag – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: 2024 Fall trip to Europe For this trip Vienna was our hub. We’d touch it a few times as we changed countries and moved from one city to another.

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07.10.2024

Budapest was a wash, literally! – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: 2024 Fall trip to Europe Sept 14 – Sept 21 We made it safe to Budapest on one of the last trains that ran from cold and stormy Vienna (snow to the west of Austria). What a change f…

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05.10.2024

Bratislava is underrated – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: 2024 Fall trip to Europe Aug 30 – Sept 5 After 31 years I am back to Bratislava. It’s Alex’s first time. As mentioned in my previous post I have very fond memories of Bratislava, the Slo…

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03.10.2024

The most happenstantial trip we’ve ever had – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: 2024 Fall trip to Europe Sept 29 A month after we took off to Europe. It is Sunday afternoon and we’ve been back for a couple of days now. Fighting jetlag and enjoying the lovely weather…

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17.09.2024

Dodging Storm Boris – Around Our e-Table

This short video is to let everyone know that we are safe and sound, if a little wet, in Europe. In mid September, parts of Europe suffered severe flooding from a massive and long-lasting rainstorm…

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31.08.2024

Autum trip to Europe – Around Our e-Table

Off to Europe again. This time we’ll visit my Bulgarian friends, Hungary where my grandfather used to live and along the way Austria, Slovakia and The Netherlands. Stay tunned.

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11.08.2024

Warm dry winter, wet cool summer – Around Our e-Table

It is July and I have booked our next flights. And accommodations. And some trains. In February Alex thought we would not travel again.

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22.05.2024

Simple Rhubarb Recipes – Around Our e-Table

It has been warm but rainy spring. Contrary to all recommendations I bought seedlings and planted my veggies end of April and early May.

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17.03.2024

Porto, the revolting city – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Portugal Take 2 In a year Porto has changed. The streets are steeper and the up-hills are longer. We stay with the same people. Loved their studio and the location. That grocery store a…

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29.02.2024

Why did we miss Evora last year? – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Portugal Take 2 Lisbon We arrived in Lisbon exactly a year after we there in January 2023. Arranged to stay with our old hosts with whom we had kept in touch.

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28.02.2024

Update – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Portugal Take 2 While sick in bed for over a week, finished the 3 of José Saramago’s (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1998) books, we bought from bookstore Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal.…

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30.01.2024

Coimbra, the old capital of Portugal – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Portugal Take 2 Life got in the way and we haven’t posted anything for a long time. We are currently in Coimbra, the medieval capital of Portugal,

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26.10.2023

Update – Around Our e-Table

We’ve been travelling for over 2 weeks in Europe. By the end of our short journey, we’ll visit 6 countries. Usually our travel is slower, however the goal of this trip is to visit friends in Switze…

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13.10.2023

The red sun: Let’s get the hell out of here – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! Fri, Jul 14 We head back. Eh, not due to the looming emergency yet. After breakfast we fill Doranya up with water (who knows where the next refill will be?), dump the holdin…

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13.10.2023

Driving through Kelowna, a flash back in time – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! Tue, Jul 11 and Jul 14 We didn’t stay in Kelowna and in hindsight it was a good thing that I could not book a campground there. But we drove through it on the way into and o…

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13.10.2023

Carcross, Tagish, Teslin and goodbye North of 60th – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! Tue, Jul 5 And then we hit the road. Carcross, Tagish, Jakes Corner, Little Teslin Lake, Johnsons Crossing, Brooks Brook, Teslin, Morley River, dip into BC, Swift River, Ran…

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13.10.2023

Peachland and Okanagan Valley – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! Tue, Jul 11 As mentioned in some previous posts we still hadn’t realised the gravity of the wildfires around us and how the smoke from them was affecting us. In the morning …

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13.10.2023

The red sun: Smithers, Burns Lake, West Lake – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! Sat, Jul 8 Despite the smoke and red sun, when visible, we were still in the lull before the storm that was developing around us. Wildfires. Today we are heading towards Pri…

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13.10.2023

A borrowed headline “The summer the sun turned red” – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! It’s not exactly stolen or borrowed, since I was already writing of “The red sun”. But I am months and many posts behind.

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13.10.2023

Stewart-Cassiar Highway – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! Wed, Jul 6 Soon we’ll say goodbye to the 60th parallel, crossing it for one last time and heading south to the unknown. Not knowing what and where we might dump Doranya’s ho…

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14.09.2023

North of 60th: The Turn Around – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! After a wonderful visit with Alex’s nephew Michael and his fiancée Erin in Haines Junction (HJ) it was time to turn around and head for home.

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11.09.2023

North of 60th: Teslin, Marsh Lake and arrival at Haines Junction – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! Wed, Jun 28 The Alaska Highway in BC is BC 97. It crosses the BC – Yukon (YT) border a few times. Driving from south the first one is a short section with crossing at

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07.09.2023

Alaska Highway to Liard Hot Springs – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! Tue, Jun 27 Driving to and on Alaska Highway was as spectacular as the Icefield Parkway. In a very different way.

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04.09.2023

From Jasper to Alaska Highway – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! June 25 – June 26 When we started the trip, I had only 14 places booked out of 45 scheduled. These were the National and some popular Provincial Parks.

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23.08.2023

The Icefield Parkway and Jasper – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! Jun 22 – Jun 24 This post is mainly a photo essay. Driving through the Canadian Rocky Mountains is spectacular.

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22.08.2023

Lake Louise – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! Jun 18 – Jun 21 We approached the foothills of the mountains shortly after we merged with TransCanada Highway 1 at Seebe.

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12.08.2023

A month on the road – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! (Hmmm… This was supposed to be posted a long time ago but somehow got lost in the winds and wildfires. I guess rushing back home we didn’t have lots of spare time or wifi fo…

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31.07.2023

Haines Junction, YT – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! (Jumping the queue; Many posts will come in a different sequence to our itinerary – D) It’s Day 47 (Fri, June 30) of our adventure and only 200 or so kilometres ahead…

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04.07.2023

In dinosaur land – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! Wed, Jun 14 The morning rain settled the dust and brought fresh coolish air (24C in comparison to scorching 33C yesterday) and a nice breeze.

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03.07.2023

Medicine Hat Alberta and the end of a griddle saga – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! Fri, Jun 9 – Sun, Jun 11 To get ahead of the severe thunderstorms forecast for Saskatchewan we left the eerie Grasslands a day earlier.

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27.06.2023

The Grasslands, SK – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! June 7: Entering the badlands of the Canadian prairies. After a searing hot few days we drove through slightly milder but threatening weather from Moose Jaw SK to Grasslands…

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21.06.2023

From Moose Jaw to The Grassland National Park, SK – Around Our e-Table

Storyline: Westward Ho! The idea of boondocking at Moose Jaw’s information centre was thwarted by the extreme heat and our propane griddle malfunction.

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Budapest during the flood – Around Our e-Table

Snippets of Vienna – Around Our e-Table

The last train – Around Our e-Table

Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia – Around Our e-Table

From YYZ to Bratislava – Around Our e-Table

Prelude to the holidays – Around Our e-Table

Haarlem was a missed opportunity – Around Our e-Table

Sofia as always was nice, but… – Around Our e-Table

Vienna was a mixed bag – Around Our e-Table

Budapest was a wash, literally! – Around Our e-Table

Bratislava is underrated – Around Our e-Table

The most happenstantial trip we’ve ever had – Around Our e-Table

Dodging Storm Boris – Around Our e-Table

Autum trip to Europe – Around Our e-Table

Warm dry winter, wet cool summer – Around Our e-Table

Simple Rhubarb Recipes – Around Our e-Table

Porto, the revolting city – Around Our e-Table

Why did we miss Evora last year? – Around Our e-Table

Update – Around Our e-Table

Coimbra, the old capital of Portugal – Around Our e-Table

Update – Around Our e-Table

The red sun: Let’s get the hell out of here – Around Our e-Table

Driving through Kelowna, a flash back in time – Around Our e-Table

Carcross, Tagish, Teslin and goodbye North of 60th – Around Our e-Table

Peachland and Okanagan Valley – Around Our e-Table

The red sun: Smithers, Burns Lake, West Lake – Around Our e-Table

A borrowed headline “The summer the sun turned red” – Around Our e-Table

Stewart-Cassiar Highway – Around Our e-Table

North of 60th: The Turn Around – Around Our e-Table

North of 60th: Teslin, Marsh Lake and arrival at Haines Junction – Around Our e-Table

Alaska Highway to Liard Hot Springs – Around Our e-Table

From Jasper to Alaska Highway – Around Our e-Table

The Icefield Parkway and Jasper – Around Our e-Table

Lake Louise – Around Our e-Table

A month on the road – Around Our e-Table

Haines Junction, YT – Around Our e-Table

In dinosaur land – Around Our e-Table

Medicine Hat Alberta and the end of a griddle saga – Around Our e-Table

The Grasslands, SK – Around Our e-Table

From Moose Jaw to The Grassland National Park, SK – Around Our e-Table

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