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By Grace Bridges KIWI COME HOME Posted Friday, July 16 - 4:21 pm
So I’m home again from my travels, with plenty to tell you about New Caledonia. It was my first time there, and as the plane neared the island, the coral reef became visible – the reef that encloses the world’s largest lagoon, so I’m told.
By Grace Bridges KIWI COME HOME Posted Wednesday, July 7 - 11:37 am
Itchy feet again? Yep, it's your neighbourhood globetrotter reporting in from a tiny coral island off the coast of Noumea.
By Grace Bridges KIWI COME HOME Posted Thursday, July 1 - 9:10 am
For a country with only a little more land area than my own and twenty times the population, it has always surprised me that there is so much open country in Germany—where the silence is so heavy you can feel it, and the pace of life is slow and settled.
By Grace Bridges KIWI COME HOME Posted Wednesday, June 23 - 2:38 pm
By far the largest—and youngest— in the Auckland volcanic region, Rangitoto sits at the gateway to the city and is visible from any position high enough.
By Grace Bridges KIWI COME HOME Posted Monday, June 21 - 1:41 pm
The name alone conjures up memories of the sweet summer I spent there, scribbling in a room with a sea view. It proved easy enough to arrange accommodation in Ireland, even from another country, and that is how I ended up in Balbriggan.
By Grace Bridges KIWI COME HOME Posted Wednesday, June 9 - 1:54 pm
It was Captain James Cook who named many places in New Zealand on his tour of discovery, even if some names are rather obvious, as in the case of the Bay of Islands.
By Grace Bridges KIWI COME HOME Posted Wednesday, June 2 - 4:41 pm
When I think about Ireland......a sense of Home creeps over me, a sense of belonging that’s not quite like anywhere in the world, even though I hail from far away.
By Grace Bridges KIWI COME HOME Posted Friday, May 28 - 11:37 am
Within the city itself are also many things that must be seen by the serious tourist, and some are off the beaten track.
By Barbara Washburn TEXAS TRAVELER Posted Friday, May 28 - 11:15 am
Randy and I are just a few years away from retirement; anxiously awaiting the time when we don’t have to plan out every vacation down to the minute.
By Grace Bridges KIWI COME HOME Posted Wednesday, May 19 - 11:46 am
If you had just a few days in Regensburg, here is what I would advise you to do first of all. Providing the weather is fine, and it should be at this time of year – barring seasonal thunderstorms, of course – take a walk around the city’s riverbanks and islands.
By Barbara Washburn TEXAS TRAVELER Posted Thursday, May 13 - 11:08 am
Climb aboard a bus for the short trek up to Acoma Sky City. Perched atop a 367-foot-tall mesa, this almost nine-hundred-year-old pueblo village towers over the breathtaking landscape of western New Mexico with its desert floor and unusual rock formations
By Barbara Washburn TEXAS TRAVELER Posted Wednesday, April 28 - 3:15 pm
My hat goes off to you brave souls who travel alone. I would like to think that I had that degree of chutzpa…but when it gets right down to it, I know I don’t.



