Geri and Derek on the Road

Not much to say really.  The plan was to fly out to Vancouver Island, check into a cheap motel in Courtenay and then spend three days at the...

I should commit to this blog for the record.  Our our first trip was 1990 or 91 and we went for two weeks at the Sol Palmeras in Veradero (l...

This bit of nostalgia comes courtesy of Geri Sheedy.  We're just back from a couple of weeks at the Melia Cayo Coco and were telling fol...

Vacation theft tactics come in waves, go in and out of fashion I think, and, of course, it is always the staff that get blamed and the holid...

1.  1990-2010. Read a lot of paper books, one, sometimes two novels a day, swapping what we brought with what was in the hotel's large l...

If you're headed south this year please consider the following. With tourism now still well below pre-pandemic levels, countries depende...

Last year, for Christmas 2023, we returned to Cuba for the first time since our time in Caibarien and Remedios in early 2020.  We had such a...