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  • New York Day 3 – Statue of Liberty and 911 Memorial

    This trip has been full of bucket list type of sites. We have all grown up with TV and movies shot in NYC so there are lots of familiar places. The Statue of Liberty being perhaps one of the more famous. The official name of the statue is Liberty Enlightening the World. She was a…

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  • New York Day 2 – Central Park and The Met

    We were too late last night to grocery shop at Trader Joe’s, so this morning we headed over before breakfast and coffee. Dave was cranky but recovered once sufficiently caffeinated. I don’t think anyone is particularly jet lagged, being only a three hour time difference, just tired after a long travel day yesterday. After breakfast…

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  • New York – Getting there and Times Square

    We started our trip with a nice and early 5am wake up call. Nothing like flying east to get you up and off to the airport early! We were on a nice new Boeing 787 and while we (Kris and I) had emergency row seats with tons of leg room, we had to “reboot the…

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  • Madagascar Day 28 – A Day at the Museum.

    Our plan for today was to visit the Louvre. We had no real requirements except to see the Mona Lisa. There’s a ton of other things to see of course and we had a few things on the list but the first and most important was to see Ms. Lisa. Before we left though, we…

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  • Madagascar Day 26/27 – Overnight Flight to Paris

    1am is not a good time to be awake. However it was when our flight from Madagascar to Paris left. Air France loaded us up and we actually left 10 minutes early. A very long 10 and a half hours later with little sleep we landed in Paris. Once again we are staying near the…

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  • Madagascar Day 25 – Tana, Our Last Day in Madagascar

    On our last day in Madagascar we had a free day to relax. Our flight to Paris leaves at 1am so we intended to wander and explore a bit and not do too much. We slept in and had a lazy breakfast. We had three errands we wanted to cover off. First was chocolate. Northern…

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  • Madagascar Day 24 – Nosy Be Back to Tana

    Today was our last day at the Anjiamarango Resort in Nosy Be. Our fight back to Tana wasn’t until 6pm so we were able to sleep in and relax. It seemed no big deal to get a late check-out today – there are several other groups here, but it is not even close to full.…

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  • Madagascar Day 23 – 25th Wedding Anniversary

    Today is our 25th wedding anniversary. We’ve had some amazing anniversary trips over the years and when we were talking about this trip we agreed we needed to go “somewhere good”. Not that our other trips weren’t great, but this one needed to be extra special. Madagascar is about as far away from Vancouver as…

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  • Madagascar Day 22 – Nosy (Island) Tour

    Knowing we had to get up and go today made it easier to make a 7am breakfast and a 730 departure. Medi drove us back to the same beach as yesterday but today we had a competent captain and a working boat. The trip to Nosy Iranja took about 1.5 hours. It is actually two…

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  • Madagascar Day 21 – Nosy Komba & Nosy Tanikely

    After an inglorious start to part three of our Madagascar adventure yesterday, this morning redeemed itself. We thought we had some excursions booked through our travel agent, but the hotel seemed to know nothing about it. And because we were not picked up by a GMT+3 driver yesterday, no pick-up time was decided and no…

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