Mary and Kevin Travel

Fever/Dream

Well, people’s fear of fever (coronavirus) led to a dream flight with hardly anyone on the plane. I had a whole row to myself across which to stretch for sleep. Though I don’t sleep well on moving things (trains, boats, planes, planet Earth). It’s more like a fever dream...

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Coming Full Circle

We wanted to give everyone time to enjoy the holidays and ring in the new year. We stayed two days in Invercargill, the southernmost city in the Commonwealth of Nations (former British nations). It was very rainy and windy. A public statue outside our hotel window turned into a...

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Christmas Seals

Easter Seals was a well known charity when I was a kid. But we have seen a lot of Christmas seals. (See video below.) We have also seen signs for Christmas lilies, when I had only ever heard of Easter lilies. So happy holidays from the land of summer...

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Lessons Learned

I read a travel writing book a while ago that noted that smell was the one thing you could not capture on film about a foreign destination. The scent of eucalyptus as we drove through the coastal mountains of Australia was fabulous, like a free worldwide menthol air freshener....

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