I hope every­one had a lovely Easter.  Here in Lanciano, Easter is a pretty big deal with parades and march­ing bands going around the town nearly every­day since last Thursday. Chris cap­tured some amazing shots of the Easter parade this past Thursday. We’ve been relax­ing in Lanciano with my good friend Cristina (who I call “Cris) [...]

It was a chance encounter. We had met Petrit and Gloria only the morning prior, as we ate break­fast in Selcuk and pre­pared to go our sep­ar­ate ways. They told us about their trip, and we learned that theirs was remark­ably similar in both scope and itin­er­ary to our own. We had each been in [...]

As prom­ised, here are some of the photos we got in Vancouver. We’re in London now, and after walking for about 10 hours yes­ter­day (we estim­ated about 14km), we have a ton of photos from here already, but first things first. Although it is my intent to write more once we get a bit more [...]

Fresh mussels. Shrimp.  Steak. Asparagus. Broccoli. Zucchini. I love food. Des, Dale, myself and Chris all did dif­fer­ent tasks to create an amazing dinner at the Millers’ place. The next day we went to Dale’s parents house (also Millers) for dinner. Margie whipped up a fant­astic red meat pasta sauce which we washed down with [...]