December 2014 until December 2015 ~ starting with Sandduning in Peru .....

To visiting the condors in the Colca Valley and flying above the Nasca Lines ...

To paying tribute to ancient Inca burials ...

Times in Lima ...

Then flight to Iquitos and onto the Amazon ...

Visiting San Pedro tripal village up the Amazon ...

Back to the hostel in Cusco ...

Visiting sacred floating on Lake Titicaca ... 

Dearest Jill, we will miss you, forever.  THANK YOU ...

Helen turns vegetarian in her new kitchen.  Yum yum!  I miss your meals!

Back in Burnaby!

Many people have memories of times in Auntie Evelyn's Victorian house by the sea, 38 Seapoint Avenue.  It has been sold and here is the notice to request permission to refurbish and alter the 'protected structure' of this wonderful place.

 

Camino Trail, pilgrimage, here I come!

Since my last blog and writing in Inish Turk I have been back in the Dublin area, meeting up with Arran and Teresa and spending times with family and friends.  Later I first went to Roscommon and spent a week in the beautiful Abbey Hotel pool, helping  a couple of women get over their nervousness and get their legs kicking in the water.  Then I took a bus to county Sligo and visited several of W.B. Yeats haunts and stayed in a hostel in Strandhill beside the sea.  Had great fun assisting a group of volunteers for two days with autistic children surfing in the aquamarine seas of the Atlantic.  After Sligo I went to Donegal and spend a wonderful week in Malin Head, the most northerly point of Ireland; stayed at the Sandrock Hostel, walked a lot, met lovely people, and saw basking sharks leaping happily from the sea!  Saw Danncing at Lughnasa in Letterkenny, spent a night in my favourite hostel in Galway, cycled to the Killarney Lakes, briefly visited Cork in the south of Ireland and returned to Dublin on a sad note.  One of my best friends had passed away a couple of days before.  I was glad to be in Ireland to spend some time with her in July and later with her family.  I feel privileged also to have been in Ireland when my favourite English teacher died at a good ninety plus year old age.

It was especially good to be here for my cousin Helen's 70th birthday party, August 31st.

I have so many memories, this blog cannot begin to describe!  Meantime, close up now.  I will go to see my lovely 96 year old Auntie Evelyn soon and before I leave for Madrid this afternoon.  It has been a wonderful three months and now, my Camino pilgrimage!