The Svalbard Triangle – Oban – Day 3 can be found here. Finally – a proper night’s sleep. No orange-light alarm clocks after a three-hour Air Canada doze, and no…
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The Svalbard Triangle – Oban – Day 3
The Svalbard Triangle – Travel Vortex / Oban – Day 2 can be found here. Have I mentioned lately how much I loathe transatlatlantic flights? Oh, just every single post?…
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The Svalbard Triangle – Travel Vortex / Oban – Day 2
The Svalbard Triangle – Travel Vortex – Day 1 can be found here. I wake as late as possible, but obscenely early – a mere three hours after I closed…
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The Svalbard Triangle – Travel Vortex – Day 1
We are Arctic bound! We’ve packed a more-reasonable-than-usual 299.7 pounds of luggage for our ‘brief’ 6 week summer adventure as we fly to Edinburgh, Scotland and then on to Oban….
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Club Med Charlevoix – Summer 2026 – Day 8
Our departure day dawned cold, and damp, and early. We had mostly packed up yesterday so it’s thankfully just a matter of stuffing away the last of our toiletries, charging…
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Club Med Charlevoix – Summer 2026 – Day 7
So dawns our last full day at Club Med Charlevoix. We have thoughts on how it’s all gone, but we’ll save those for later. First we need to get to…
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Club Med Charlevoix – Summer 2026 – Day 6
The good news is that we no loner feel as though we’ve been beaten with garden hoses. Instead, it merely feels like we’ve been beaten with whisk brooms. Progress! Today…
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Club Med Charlevoix – Summer 2026 – Day 5
There are days when you wake up full of vim and vigour, ready to take on the world – and there are days when you wake up feeling as though…
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Club Med Charlevoix – Summer 2026 – Day 4
After two days of mountain biking, yoga and late-night performances, we are sorely in need of a sleep-in. We wake at 8:30 am and head off for our usual breakfast,…
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Club Med Charlevoix – Summer 2026 – Day 3
Some ideas are obviously bad from the start. Others are only apparent with the luxury of hindsight. Today held the latter. I awoke blissfully unaware at 7:45 am, 30 minutes…
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