Caught an evening flight out of Auckland flying 14 hours to Vancouver. Uneventful flight as we all hope for except for some antics by a number of the passengers. One woman tried to stop someone from putting luggage in the overhead compartment that had her row number on it. She thought these were just reserved for the people sitting in that row! Then across the aisle from them a couple of passengers exchanged heated words when the luggage compartment above one of ...

We have visited Singapore often over the years during our time in Australia. As well as breaking our return trip the plan was to celebrate our wedding anniversary with a dinner which we did. In addition there are always places that need to be revisited and always something new that is worth visiting. Our hotel was down near the Singapore River close to some real good eating places including Clarke Quay. We had to go to Raffles for a Singapore Sling as we have no...

This morning we woke to a 21 gun (canon) salute from the ceremonial area of the Acropolis directly above us. This heralded the beginning of Greece's National Day. Today we left Athens for Singapore. The taxi arrived early (as planned) to make sure we would have time to avoid all the parades and road closures which would be going on during the National Day celebrations. We did not go by motorway but instead wandered through the city and countryside which gave us ...

Last full day in Athens which means last minute shopping as well as visiting the Central Market and Panathenaic Stadium, both of which we had seen while on the on/off bus. After having a really nice breakfast we hoofed it off to the Central Market. It was all meat (mainly lamb, pork and chicken) and fish. It was really clean with lots of noise as the vendors tried to entice you to buy their goods. Victoria Market in Melbourne sounds a bit like this one so it is...