Note: See my exchange article at Wandering Educators about best books to read for Nova Scotia. Destination: Minnesota, Lake Superior Book: A View of the Lake: Living the Dream on Lake Superior by Beryl Singleton Bissell A GUEST POST from Jessie Voigts of Wandering Educators.com Regular partner, Jessie Voigts, has let us use a snippet from her [...]
These two Quebecois sisters played dress-up as Acadian settlers at Ft. Anne, the birthplace of Canada, in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. The museum there has hands-on activities for children in every room.
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Destination: Etruscan Italy Book: Etruscan Places: Travels Through Forgotten Italy by D. H. Lawrence (First published in 1932, NEW edition 2011)
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Destination: Paris Book: The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (NEW May 2011) by David McCullough
To get the entire list of books and see the rules, go to the announcement page. If you were Jonesing for one of the books that somebody else won, you can click on the book cover and go directly to Amazon to get your own copy. You’ll be happy, and anything you buy while you’re [...]
Destination: Africa Book: One Day I Will Write About This Place (NEW August 2011) by Binyavanga Wainaina (NOTE: After I wrote and titled this review, I carefully read Binyavanga Wainaina’s sardonic instructions on “How to Write About Africa” in the magazine Granta. You may want to check as you compile your Africa reading list.) Binyavanga [...]
This photo is part of Travel Photo Thursday, and you can see more travel photos by going to Budget Travel Sandbox and checking the list of participants at the bottom of her post. If you would like to see how a girl can be treated like a lady while traveling in Brittany, see my article [...]
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Perhaps you have been wondering where all those books are that I’ve been reviewing since our last Giveaway? Travel Memoir, travel guides, travel literature, fiction with a sense of place, travel non-fiction, travel adventure–in short, all those things we call travel books. The usual. They’re stacked in a box that is threatening to trip Ken [...]
