Travelblips

Travel blog by a global nomad

Archive for February, 2008

19 Feb

Starting the social cycle again

Travelling has the most amazing perks and it has some downfalls as well. The world is made of many many different cultures and all react to people in different ways – indifference, enthusiasm, curiosity, caution… And all will present many different faces to the passing traveller depending on whether the traveller is visiting or staying. [...]

18 Feb

So cold, the harbour froze

I admit I’ve only been in my temporary digs for coming up on 3 weeks now, but in all that time, I’d never seen the harbour at St John’s, Newfoundland show the slightest hint of ice through frozen rain storms, sub-freezing winds or heavy snowfall.And yet this morning, after a night where the temperature plummeted [...]

17 Feb

Frozen tide mark at Spaniards Bay

I have been very tardy of late in getting out and exploring this new part of the world to me of late. Partly this is because I was driving a gas guzzling truck and partly for personal reasons. However, got a new car – no excuse! Gotta get out there and explore!
So I consulted the [...]

13 Feb

Throwing the anchor (or I thought I was prepared to buy a car)

I had researched cars intensively on the web, I’d even driven around the closed dealers -new and used on Sunday, to look at the cars and jot down makes and models to research on the web, I knew which ones were good ones, I had researched the most favourable financing deal, I had thought about [...]

13 Feb

Preparing the anchor (or thinking about buying a car)

I finally had to do it. After 12 years of being blissfully car free (offsetting my flight carbon emissions by using foot and public transport at my end destinations…), I have ended up in an area where I needed to have a car. Public transportation was dubious at best, and cycling possibly never an option [...]

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