Onwards to the north of Iceland – or at least part of it. Today’s journey takes us to Iceland’s second largest city: Akureyri. When we arrived it was 45 degrees, starting to rain, and the weather would get even more interesting! Let me say that anyone who is packing for Iceland, do follow all the […]
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A taste of Northern Iceland
September 2nd, 2019 · No Comments · Education, History, Iceland, Lesson Learned, Museums, Musings, Site Seeing, travel
Tags: Cold winter evenings·crewel work·embroidery·history·horses·Iceland·learning·museum·snow·stables·textile
Where is Iceland?
August 21st, 2019 · No Comments · Education, Food, Iceland, Itinerary, Lesson Learned, Musings, My Goals, Reading, Teaching & Learning, travel
Iceland — do you know where it is? What do you know of it? I’m always first to admit that my geography knowledge is sorely lacking! The benefit to me when I travel is that I finally figure out where in the world that place is located! So first, go here and check out the […]
Tags: Blue Lagoon·climate change·horses·Iceland·learning·novels·reading·retirement·travel
Life Lesson: Laughter and life and enjoyment
March 9th, 2015 · 1 Comment · Lesson Learned
They did have fun. It usually involved other adults. Friends, male friends of my father’s, or if it was women, their wives. Mostly the women were a certain one or two of my mother’s five sisters. Drinking was always involved, music on the turntable – the turntable was part of the large piece of furniture-besides […]
Tags: aging·beer·Children·Dad·family·food·laughter·learning·life lessons·Miss Vicky·party·TIny Tim
March 2nd, 2015 · No Comments · Lesson Learned, travel
In 2008, part of our sabbatical trip was a several day visit to Morocco, visiting a few cities, villages and an overnight ride into the dessert. Lesson learned: people are people wherever they live, needing shelter and food and love; heights are only as scarey as you let them be; travel opens the mind, the […]
Tags: adventure·camel·family·food·heart·home·learning·life lesson·mind·travel
Beauty, mornings and Spain
February 23rd, 2015 · No Comments · Lesson Learned, Musings
Lesson learned: Remember to remind yourself to appreciate what you do have… One day on our recent trip to Portugal and Northern Spain with Odysseys Unlimited, we woke to a magnificent morning in the Spanish Prynees! Literally – to overuse the word that does seem overused these days. We’d arrived in night before to the […]