by Jean Llewellyn | Aug 2, 2020 | Travel
Saturday morning started with a BANG! Quite literally. So, we left the Clarion Hotel in Pembroke – fabulous place – after a very restful night’s sleep. Pulled up several metres behind a vehicle towing a trailer at a stop light before rejoining the Trans-Canada when,...
by Jean Llewellyn | Aug 1, 2020 | Travel
Before I begin – many thanks to friends, Anne and Sandra, who were kind enough to answer the question about Canada’s bi-lingual status. Apparently, Quebec’s provincial government mandates the use of French only on road signs, but even more interesting, from Sandra:...
by Jean Llewellyn | Jul 30, 2020 | Travel
Glorious weather, quiet roads, no hold-up at the Nova Scotia/New Brunswick provincial border check-point for Covid-19, so we’re well on our way. One-fifth of the journey covered today, trolling along, enjoying the fabulous NB scenery. Indeed, if you discount the...
by Jean Llewellyn | Jul 27, 2020 | Travel
Finally, after several weeks of chronic indigestion caused by the roller-coaster of ‘have we, or haven’t we’ sold our Nova Scotia property, the stars aligned and we received an email confirming that our buyers’ financing had finally been approved. Yikes! It’s been an...
by Jean Llewellyn | Apr 11, 2019 | Travel
Well! To borrow a few words from the husky-voiced country crooner Willi Nelson, we’re ‘On the Road Again; Goin’ places that I’ve never been; Seein’ things that I may never see again…’. In short, and to bring early closure to any suspense, we’re heading ‘home’ to...
by Jean Llewellyn | Aug 31, 2017 | Travel
From the outset, I confess that I’m not what you’d call ‘savvy’ when it comes to artificial intelligence. In fact, the first time I saw the acronym ‘AI’ in a BBC report about robots, I wondered how artificial ‘insemination’ had crept into the message as, being...
