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Reflections on our Family Sabbatical
This is a very hard blog post to write because part of me doesn’t want this trip to have an “end” although the more logical side of my brain knows that we have to get back to real life and school and income-generating pursuits to fund future adventures. But here it is, my concluding blog…
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Playing Pick-Up Soccer/Football Around the World
Here’s a bonus article, as I’m wrapping up my blog writing (still one wrap-up blog post to go though…). If you have been reading the blog regularly, you may have noticed that I had a photo of the kids playing soccer in many of the posts. It was a goal that the boys had set…
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More Peru Marvels: Cusco and the Amazon
The last leg of our journey – hard to believe! It was sometimes hard to focus on the present, with the end of the trip looming and the home-to-do-list coming to the front of our minds, but we really enjoyed the time we spent in Peru, and this last leg was full of great experiences.…
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First week in Peru: Lima and Sacred Valley
The last country on our tour – Peru! And it is a great one to end with because it’s such a fascinating new country and culture for us. So far, it’s been a wonderful place to visit. The people are really friendly and helpful and the historical sites are amazing. We are trying out the…
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Big Family Week in The Netherlands
Our last week in Europe we spent enjoying family time in The Netherlands. Both of Steve’s parents, Bert and Odile, are from the Netherlands and so they were excited to meet up with us there to show the grandkids around their country and introduce them to the many relatives. My sisters-in-law Elanor and Carol, and…
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Bike trip around Bodensee in Germany
This week was all action as we spent six days doing a big bike tour around Lake Constance (or “Bodensee” in German). We had chosen this spot because the bike ride itself is mostly flat but it’s in a beautiful hilly area that also touches the alps on one leg. It’s also very established as…
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Exploring Beautiful Bavaria Germany
This past week was exciting for us because we got to see family for the first time in months. My amazing sister Katharine and her wonderful husband Kilian flew in from Toronto to host us for a week in the Bavaria area of Germany (where Kilian is from originally). We are so lucky to have…
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Exploring Stockholm
We spent only a short week in Stockholm – Sunday morning to Friday afternoon – which is shorter than our usual stay in a place, and we left wishing we had stayed longer. Stockholm really impressed us as a city. It’s so well set up with bike paths, walking streets, parks, waterways and an excellent…
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Above the Arctic Circle in Abisko, Sweden
The kids really wanted to visit Northern Europe on this tour after having great memories of a family trip we did to Norway many years ago. To be honest, I wasn’t initially excited about Northern Europe because it has many similarities to Canada, so we did a lot of research to find a unique experience. …
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Visiting Turkey: Istanbul and the Mediterranean Coast
While we loved our time in Asia, I think the family did a collective sigh of relief upon landing in Turkey, our first country of Europe on this trip. Although the kids did remind me that Turkey is only partly in Europe, it generally feels more European than Asian and provided us with comforts we…
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The 2024 Lake Waslander family trip around the world
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