Travel
Travel can teach you so much: about your home, about other lands and cultures, and about yourself. You may even find exciting places to go closer to home that you never even knew about!
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Little Washington, NC
Our home for an oh-so-short time. Washington NC, we hardly knew ye!
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Nova Scotia
Our huge moving and traveling adventure. What a wonderful place; we just absolutely fell in love with it and would have stayed under different circumstances. Here’s some of our Nova Scotia adventures and why we went there — and why we left.
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Back in the day
Things I remember from childhood and teen years mostly.
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Family
Stories about family and friends. My favourite? — “Secrets of the Silver Spool“.
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Tales of the Golden Beetle: the little engine that could
(image above: this is not David’s beetle (nor my photo), but I imagine that his looked much the same in terms of “attitude” as he drove it on gravel roads during the MCO rally. Well, except for all the lights — we just had the regular headlights and a small dent in the front after…
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10 years after – memories of my father
Ten years ago today, my father Bill Cadzow passed away after a steady decline due to dementia and a short bout with pneumonia. It seemed sudden, but not unexpected. It was his last wish to have his ashes scattered in Loch Indaal, an inland bay of Islay, the southernmost of the Inner Hebrides islands off…
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Epic experience as a Halifax Citadel soldier-for-a-day
I first heard of the Halifax Citadel soldier-for-a-day experience on the BBC program, Great Canadian Railway Journeys hosted by the always-colourful Michael Portillo. I thought this looked like great fun and an experience not to be missed. (His day as a soldier starts at the 8:33 minute mark.) And, since I’m originally from Scotland, the idea…
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Our NS faves for food & drink (so far!)
After we completed quarantine in our new home of Nova Scotia, it didn’t take long for us to get out and start enjoying local delicacies — heck, the first restaurant recommendation we got was from the RCMP officer who checked on our quarantine compliance! My first focus was finding a good seafood chowder — much…
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The top 7 differences we found in Nova Scotia
If you’re moving to a new country, you HAVE to expect differences. After all, the culture, laws, and social rules and customs are probably not the same as in your last home. We moved to Nova Scotia from North Carolina earlier this year, and Jackie (my American better half) correctly expected that everything would be…
