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Iceland
It’s a 7 hour flight from Vancouver to Iceland and there is a 7 hour time difference. The flight left at 7 pm and arrived around 9 am the next day. We met our friends John and Nancy from Denver at the airport and headed to the hotel. We did a tour of the city…
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More Tennis
Actually I did bring my small camera – so a few more shots: Andreescu and Bouchard before their match: A couple of shots each of Andreescu and Bouchard: Pliskova and Riske: Finally – Halep: We are off to Ottawa; it’s now all about grandchildren.
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Tennis
We’re now in Toronto watching the Rogers Cup Women’s Tennis. Today we watched two matches in the sweltering heat: Yastremska beat Konta 63 62 and Wozniaki beat Putintseva 64 62. I brought my sony point-and-shoot and took at few (thousand) pictures. It’s not my usual subject matter and I probably won’t bring the camera to…
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Wolfville
We did stop and get a tour of the tidal power station in Annapolis – very interesting – except that it doesn’t work on a large scale (changes the water/silting such that the turbines would end up being buried); also the present station is offline, pending an evaluation of the cost to upgrade wiring –…
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Last Day in Annapolis
Last night we went to the Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens but were chased away by the mosquitoes. Above – an Acadian house within the gardens. Today we were going to go for a hike, but as we drove to the trailhead the paved road turned to a gravel road which then turned into something requiring…
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Annapolis Royal
Yesterday we drove to our new place in Annapolis Royal. On the way we stopped at the Grand Pre National Historic Site. The site is on a section of land that the Acadians had farmed after reclaiming the land using an ingenious dyke system that allowed the water to drain from the land while preventing…
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