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¿Who’s Watchin’ You, Cádiz?
The laid-back Spanish beach town of Cádiz, Spain is world famous for its watch towers, many of which were built during its heyday of trade-based prosperity in the 1700s. We spent our first day trekking around the Old Town in search of the official watch tower and highest point in Cádiz, the Torre Tavira. Fluent […]
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The Best Flamenco Singer in All of Spain
You gotta love Spanish culture. Machismo, fine wine, tapas, flamenco, Rafa Nadal. We felt very fortunate to get a chance to visit southern Spain, also known as Andalusian Spain, where many of the classic stereotypes originated and are strongest even in this modern era. Everywhere we turned there was stunning architecture, natural beauty, history to […]
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Niceness in the Great White North, eh?
During last winter’s Olympic games we kept hearing coverage about how nice and friendly Canadians are. We’ve met a few over the years and have never been given reason to doubt the stereotype. Visiting a large Canadian port like Halifax, however, gave us the chance to experience Canucks en masse; and they really are nice! […]
Burnin’ this feed
I’ve got big plans to completely re-design and re-write samandshannon.com. Step one is to start using feedburner so that we can see just a little bit more about who’s out there and whether anyone is reading what we’re writing. If you’re currently a subscriber, would you mind doing us a favor and updating your feed […]
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A-B-C…easy as 1-2-3…simple as do-re-me…
Our final three ports of call were the ABC islands in the Dutch Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao. We went scuba diving in Bonaire and beached it in Curacao and Aruba. The ABCs all have arid climates which was quite a change from the tropical rainforests to which we’d become accustomed. Curacao was especially beautiful, […]
Flaming Limbo Lower Now!
During our evening in Trinidad, we attended a cultural show that knocked our socks off with national champion calypso singers, steel pan players, talented drummers, and limbo-ologists. Our camera battery died shortly after the show began. Thankfully, my iPhone camera still had some juice. Too bad it isn’t the newly announced iPhone 4 because the […]
Jolly Good Sporting, Old Boy.
We visited Trinidad and Tobago on a national holiday, so most of the shops and restaurants were closed. We had the good fortune, however, of hitting on a day when they were hosting an international cricket match between the local Caribbean West Indies team (wearing maroon) and South Africa (wearing green). Neither Shannon nor I […]
Grenada: Let’s Be Friends
The night before our arrival in Grenada, our friend and co-worker Courtney had a vision: she forsaw us zipping around the winding mountain roads on mopeds or scooters. We left the ship with that plan in mind but were unfortunately not able to find a scooter rental shop once ashore…we’ll have to try again on […]
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A Whale of a Tail
The island of Dominica (pronounced “doe mee NEE kuh”) is a volcanic island rich in natural beauty and vastly undeveloped to date. Like most of the eastern Caribbean islands, tourism is the main economy, but at Dominica the focus is on eco-tours to the rainforest, hot springs, and waterfalls as well as small mom ‘n […]