A trip to Mexico City The Trip to Mexico City with our friends and family – nine of us. We will fly to Mexico City in the morning and immediately start the tour. Our itinerary is below: Day 1 (Monday January 31st): Airport pick-up and transfer to Hotel Catedral, historic centre of Mexico City Afternoon walking tour of Mexico City’s historic centre*...
First of all I drive a truck – a big one, small one any kind of truck and get paid for it. I like the challenge of safely handling a long vehicle, heavy weights and putting them into small docks and doors. Secondly I like the people I work with – professionals who do a trying job with skill and...
In the midst of all this doom and gloom – Dems f******g things up in the Senate, Covid still hanging around, PMJT still on the ‘bad-boys’ list with the anti-vaxxers, the anti-vaxxers still clogging the ICUs one can still find off the wall stories that make you think. This story: Two men take corpse into Irish post office to claim...
Howcum people who blog and put up vlogs and podcasts on social media always want to put the camera on themselves talking about the action before them? Surely the idea of using a camera shot is to tell a story with images? Now it is common practice to get a couple of minutes of the vlogger focussing the camera on...
Yesterday the nearby State of Nayerit issued new regulations that shut down bars and casinos as well as large events. Restrictions were imposed on restaurants as well. Today the neighbouring State of Jalisco, where Puerto Vallarta is located announced their restrictions. Naturally because Tourism is the main industry in Jalisco their regulations are more lenient. No shutdowns, now all we...
“Do not go to the airport in the afternoon”, advice bandied about by locals. Unfortunately some of us do not heed the advice. The crowd in the pic is only half of what it was when we first started to wait. PVR schedules about twenty planes in hour between 2pm and 3pm. Don’t ask me why but they do. As...
Was an eye-opener. Travelled by bus. We have been avoiding the bus because of overcrowding, but our friends have used it and we decided to go with them to DownTown PV. Skipping the first two buses we entered the third. Fare still 10 pesos and we found a seat for each of us. Traffic was the usual good to busy...
In Mexico masks are asked for. MOST locals are wearing them, as visitors and tourists we must wear them too. It is a sign of respect for the locals, not blind obedience to an authoritarian government! Why is it that he only unmasked appear to be white and look like tourists? Who are these people and what do they think?...
This collection of articles came from a column in a section of the Northumberland news, called “Forever Young”. There are fourteen pages in this collection so keep turning pages as they are in particular order or style. Turn the pages by using the arrows in the box below the story
I wrote this article just after Adam Bureau came to Town. He is now a successful Town Councillor.
I returned to look at Lauria Hyundai, three years after the opening to check on the progress in the industry.
This story tells of the locally successful Nissan Dealer in Cobourg. Tyler Campbell tells all.
This story was one of my first for a local publication. Written in 2008.
This article was about the history of coffeeshops and the coffeeshops in Cobourg in 2008
There are 52 of them – Jackson Houses; a basic Canadian style of design that was built by Reuben Jackson...
In 2008 the ‘mancave’ craze was just getting to be a big thing as the price of electronics was getting...
After 83 years the Pontiac Auto Manufacturing section of General Motors, came to an end. This article tracked the Pontiac...
We are inveterate travellers. Accustomed to many travels not much fazes us these day. This pic taken in India shows how we blend in to the environment.
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