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Thursday, March 30, 2023

JAMAICA: OCHO RIOS AND DUNN'S RIVER FALLS AND KONOKO FALLS

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  February 18, 2023 Ocho Rios (Spanish for "eight rivers") is a town on the north Jamaican coast. Many believe Christopher Columbu...
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Sunday, March 26, 2023

JAMAICA, DAY 3: GREENWOOD GREAT HOUSE AND FALMOUTH

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February 17, 2023 Bob got up early for a morning of bird watching, and I slept in until 7:30. The hotel included a breakfast buffet with boi...
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Friday, March 10, 2023

JAMAICA, DAY 2, PART 2: SPANISH TOWN AND THE WORTHY PARK RUM PLANTATION

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  February 16, 2023 Our next stop was a brief one in Spanish Town, the Spanish and then British capital of Jamaica from 1534 until 1872, a p...
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Sunday, March 5, 2023

JAMAICA DAY 2, PART I: HOPE BOTANICAL GARDENS AND THE BOB MARLEY HOUSE

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  February 16, 2023 At 7:00 AM we met up with Bob's relative Chad, who had arrived at about 11:00 PM and checked into the same hotel we ...
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Sunday, February 26, 2023

JAMAICA 1: GETTING THERE, PORT ROYAL, AND FORT CHARLES

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  February 15, 2023 Many years ago my husband began doing research on his third great-grandfather, Captain George Cannon of the Isle of Man,...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

PORTUGAL: SADO ESTUARY, LDS TEMPLE, AND A LONG TRIP HOME

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  July 3, 2022 On our last day in Portugal we met up again with Bernard, our friendly bird guide, in the Sado Estuary, an area of wetlands k...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

PORTUGAL: EVORA, PART II - EVORA CATHEDRAL, ROMAN RUINS, A LOST CAR, AND DINNER AT TABERNA TIPICA

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  July 2, 2022 As I noted in the last post, we realized that we hadn't really paid attention to where we had parked the car, and so we d...
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