Tag: boats

  • Meandering along the Mekong – Phong Dien Market, Can Tho, Vietman – Part two

    Originally posted on A Word in Your Ear:   Back to our trip along the Mekong.  Our host was a funny lady and cracked jokes all along the way – she was also a bit handy with the bamboo and made many different things out of the strips by plaiting them together    Rings with a stone, bracelets, flowers…

  • Most scenic cruises

    “As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”~Margaret Mead   Antarctica and the South Shetland Islands     Galapagos Islands    …