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  We were sad to leave Guilin and Ian our guide who took us to the ‘off track’ places where  as Pat would say, we really got to ‘smell the roses’. When we landed in Chongquin, the biggest city in China with a population of 32 million (and I’ll bet no one who is readingContinue reading “Cruise on The Yangtze River and The Three Gorges Damn.”

On arrival to Guilin there was the most beautiful aroma.  It is Osmanphus and apparently only blooms for one week every year.  Its gorgeous.  Ian is our Guide and he is very easy going and considerate as well.  He’s traveled quite a lot and is very intuitive to to travelers needs.  We decided to skipContinue reading “Guilin, Tai Chi and cobra wine.”

Ah the beauty of having a guide!  It was very late when we arrived in Xian and lovely to be met by Sharon who picked us up and brought us to the hotel. The Terracotta Warriors did not disappoint.  Pictures fail to show the full majesty of it all and I’m not sure what isContinue reading “Xian, food, warriors and Guilin.”

  I think that the Chinese people are amongst the most friendly I’ve ever met.  We’ve been asked a few times to have our photograph taken.  They say its because Pat is so handsome and I am so beautiful. I’ve also read to expect this as that they haven’t seen many tall white people before..Continue reading “The Chinese people”

Had a good nights sleep following being awake for 24 hours and our guide picked us up at 11. BTW I couldn’t recommend using a travel agent more. David Biltek from The Art of Travel did all the organizing for this and he is wonderful.  We went to Tienanmen Square last night but there sContinue reading “China and Tibet”

My first day in San Francisco was more than I expected.   I decided to stroll down to the pier via the famous Lombardi street.  The hills here are incredible and I could feel the effects of all the climbing on my legs Of course first stop was the Garibaldi Square to suss out theContinue reading “San Francisco”

Well the lads and lady returned from the winery quite the experts. You can imagine what the next meal was like ordering and tasting the wine. We strolled over to Signoria square which is like an amazing open air sculpture museum with David, The Rape of the Sabine women, Perseus holding Medusa’s head and aContinue reading “Cinque Terre and Venice…”

3 am rise to fly and we are now in Florence. WOW! is the only thing I can say. There was a bit of a mix up when we arrived, tired and a bit grumpy it might be added. We couldn’t check our luggage into the apartment because the other tenants were still there. FortunatelyContinue reading “on to Florence”

We have had some beautiful anchors where we pop in for a swim and then off to some small beach restaurant.  Surprisingly enough the meals haven’t been too expensive .. well, with exception to the night where we stayed in port of Cava Gavatta which we had to shelter from the mistral winds.  We metContinue reading “2nd Week Still sailing in Sardinia”

Our fist swim off the boat and of course  the Floridians hesitated and strangely enough didn’t believe me that the water was warm. As you can see from the photo Brian’s stress level quickly adapted to Island time. On our second anchorage, Porto Palma, on the Southern tip of Sardinia we cooked fish with LemonContinue reading “Sardinia and Corsica.”