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musings and mosaics

musings and mosaics

Tesserae of Travels Through Life - Words, photos and moments of mosaics.

Bits and pieces of the mosaic

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Into the 21st Century!

This past week the Vic High Alumni Association arranged tours for alumni... Read More

Salt Spring Island Day Trip

My day trips to Salt Spring Island began because of the pandemic.... Read More

Io Saturnalia

Io Saturnalia! Happy Saturnalia to all. Here is a repost of my Saturnalia story... Read More

A New Place for Musings and Mosaics

Welcome to the new Musings and Mosaics website. I’ve moved my travel... Read More

Bruges

After a brief stop in Liege (the 13:01 to Bruges was cancelled... Read More

Valkenburg

The first three nights of our Netherlands/Belgium trip my friend Kathy and... Read More

Roma Revisited

All roads lead to Rome and here I am again. I had... Read More

Lastly Lisbon, with a Side of Evora

Lisbon, in my 1981 memory, was gray and lacked charm. Fast forward to 2016... Read More

Salema & Sagres – Storms, Sand, Sea, Surfers, Seafood, Shopping & Some Americans

We spent our hour long bus change in Lagos chatting with a Scottish couple from... Read More

Surviving Sevilla

Ghosts from European journeys past. Arriving in Seville by train, I wondered was... Read More

Catching Our Breaths in Cadiz

What were we thinking booking 5 nights in Cadiz? On the itinerary,... Read More

On the Loose in Al Andalus

We started our journey in Andalusia at a gallop. Like Romans with... Read More

The London Blitz

1 major metropolis, 2 crazed Canadians, 3 dizzying days and 4 noisy nights. Well... Read More

Traveling Food

After writing yesterday's post, I started thinking of the different dishes I... Read More

Caramelized Red Onion Chutney

Food is a big part of travel. Finding new flavours and recipes... Read More

Desolation Found

I'm working on a travel article about a trip I took to England... Read More

Instead of Blogging

What did I do tonight instead of writing a thoughtful and well-written blog... Read More

Funny Thing

What happened to Days 15 & 16? A mid-NaBloPoMo break. I'm making... Read More

Big Cats

Large felines (lions, tigers, jaguars and leopards) were a popular theme in... Read More

Book Ends

The other day I returned a book borrowed from a friend. The... Read More

Photo-bombing

Day 12 - I can't think of anything to write tonight. I spent... Read More

Remembrance Day

Dad during WW2, I think before he left for 6 years in... Read More

Tile Cutting 101

Have started playing with my latest mosaic. It has quickly become apparent that... Read More

I Found Myself Singing the Russian Words to Moscow Nights.

During coverage of the Sochi Olympics, music for Moscow Nights came on and... Read More

Why not Machu Picchu?

Why is Europe my number 1 destination? Am I a product of my... Read More

Last Place on Earth?

Time to use the prompt for today's post. But that's okay it's... Read More

Ships

I realized after I hit publish last night that I had forgotten... Read More

Wherever you go, there you are . . .

Take your best self with you, wherever you go.

“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.”

Moslih Eddin Saadi

“Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey.”

Rumi