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Festive Season Fiji Style

Festive Season Fiji Style

by Irene Butler – Click Our Fiji Photo Gallery – A whole month in Fiji! How “bula” is that! After a solo press trip to this tropical paradise a few years ago, my husband Rick made me promise we would come back together someday – and here we are! A fine start is settling into our clean, cozy room at Jetset Accommodation in New Town on Vita Levu (the largest of the Fiji’s 333 islands). This is to be our home base for the month. After a refreshing dip in the hotel’s pool, we walk a block to Wailoaloa...

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Christmas Wishes from Fiji

Christmas Wishes from Fiji

Irene and Rick send warm wishes for a wonderful Christmas, and a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year! MERRY CHRISTMAS! Click below to start watching our 3 Christmas Videos

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Skyscrapers Souqs and Sandscapes of Qatar

Skyscrapers Souqs and Sandscapes of Qatar

By Irene Butler - Since tales of Aladdin swept my imagination away on a magic carpet in grade school, my desire to journey through the Arabian Peninsula has not waned. Sixty years later, I am to realize this dream. My husband Rick and I arrive in Qatar, the small country that jets into the Arabian Sea like a thumb off Saudi Arabia’s border, to discover how this culture steeped in tradition has melded with modernity. Continue reading Senior Living Magazine Visit our Qatar Photo Gallery

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Transylvania – A Melding of History and Lore

Transylvania – A Melding of History and Lore

by Irene Butler.- Published in Travel Lady Magazine - I have long been intrigued by Romania’s mysterious folklore. Images flash through my mind of free-spirited Roma (gypsies) moving across the countryside, gifted with musical abilities and with psychic powers to tell fortunes or bring on a curse. The very word Transylvania sends a shiver down my spine, and blood curdling images of haunted castles and fanged creatures. My husband Rick and I are ready to find the historical threads in the folklore. We leave by train from Bucharest to Transylvania – one of the largest and most picturesque regions in...

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Poland… at last!

Poland… at last!

By Irene Butler. Back in 2001 we entered Poland via train from Budapest, or attempted to…at 4 a.m. we were escorted off the train by armed guards at the border between Poland and Slovakia….why? We thought since our United States neighbours did not require a visa that we Canadians would not require a visa. WRONG! This year (a decade later) we flew into Warsaw and breezed through immigration with the customs officer barely glancing at our passports. I like to think this was to make up for last time, but in reality the visa requirement was lifted for Canadians...

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