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Stamps

October 30, 2025

Canada Post reported a loss before taxes of 841 million dollars for the full year 2024. That’s roughly 70 million per month. Canada’s Prime Minister is right when he says that...

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Vlach, the Balkan’s “Shared” Language

September 30, 2025

Back from Greece, my daughter treated me to lunch. She wanted to share her latest adventures with me because she knows that I (as always towards the end of every month) was...

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The Lines of Torres Vedras

August 30, 2025

Due to the international tension created by recent events in the US people in North America – and elsewhere – seemed to have begun to search for new vacation locations outside...

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Innocent Victims

July 29, 2025

The Industrial Revolution buffeting the United Kingdom’s economy during the second half of the nineteenth century created a migration of workers from the countryside to...

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Beaches

June 30, 2025

Two Blogs ago I promised to write about the beaches of Albania, so we flew to Tirana (Albania’s capital), spent a couple of days there, admired the numerous freshly created...

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Rupert’s Land

May 31, 2025

“Rupert’s Land” was the name given to the Hudson Bay watershed by King Charles II of Great Britain and Ireland in 1670. At the time, he had no idea that this encompassed...

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Lake Balaton

April 30, 2025

Lake Balaton is a freshwater lake in western Hungary. It’s a major holiday destination with beaches, volcanic hills, resort towns and high-rise hotels along its 197 km...

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King Zog of Albania

March 31, 2025

It was always fashionable, nay necessary, to find a new place every year where to flee from the brutal cold of a Canadian winter. Getting to Florida was easy, so it was first...

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Where Will I Be Wintering Next?

February 28, 2025

Montreal is a cruel place in winter: cold, and snowy, with people in thick coats and heavy boots on streets that are hard to navigate.   I was getting older and less and...

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Caribou

January 31, 2025

When you examine a twenty-five cent Canadian coin closely (we call them  “quarters”) you’ll find the image of an animal on it that looks like a cow with horns on its...

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