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Magnesium Lotion for Sleep
Travelling can be stressful and so here are the two things I travel with and use regularly at home.
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An Ode to Pacific Coasting: California (Part 2)
Coast through Central Coast, from Lompoc to Monterey, California.
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An Afternoon at Granville island
Granville Island is the perfect dog-friendly, kids-friendly spot to spend a day at on your visit to beautiful Vancouver.
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SLO: Creamery Marketplace
The Creamery Marketplace is a cool spot in San Luis Obispo in Central Coast. Here’s where we took our visitors on Saturday.
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Hiking Pismo Preserve
Pismo Preserve is a local favourite for hikes, nature-lovers, and photography. The multi-use trails are also open to bikers and equestrians. Here’s what to know about visiting Pismo Preserve.
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Prospect Cottage
”A little farther along the peninsula is Prospect Cottage, the black-tarred shack where Derek Jarman retreated in his final years. Dying of AIDS, the director transformed the house into a text, covering the walls in books and paintings and poetry. John Donnie’s poem “The Sunne Rising” is inscribed on an outside all, hand-cut from marine…
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Oranges In Flight
I am reading Katherine May’s book called Enchantment. She has divided it into sections according to the elements. This is part of Air. This passage caught my eye as I have never known this about oranges. Ginger, yes. And so I looked into it and there is some information about its essential oils. One FB…
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Black Prince Well
The St Nicholas Hospital was founded just outside Canterbury in 1084, and was probably the first of its kind in England, a place where people with leprosy (now called Hansen’s disease) could live together on the edges of society, in an almost monastic fashion. They paid their way by begging and saying prayers for the…
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Hong Kong Eats
Hong Kong is truly a foodie paradise. The sheer number of choices and availability may surprise and astonish visitors. Here’s what I ate on my recent trip.
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Art: Gathering on Travels
Stitch Stories is a wonderful book full of ideas, techniques, inspiration, and stories…
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An Ode to Pacific Coasting: California (Part 1)
In this series we start from Southern California north on our Pacific Coast Highway trip. Dr Seuss, Bart’s Books, Koba Sushi are some highlights
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Big Sur is reopened
As of January 14, 2026, Highway 1 through Big Sur is re-opened. The work on the last section, Regent’s Slide, was completed ahead of the scheduled date of March 30. Regent’s Slide goes back to February 9, 2024. At the time, a section called Paul’s Slide had already been closed from January 14, 2023. Six…