For my parents, the decision to bring children aboard was not a choice of theirs, but a choice of nature. They had already been cruising offshore for five years before I was born in Cairns, Australia in 1982. My brother Sam was born in Mombasa, Kenya three years later. Still, the joys of having us…
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Drink Beer and Be Merry: Bavarian-style
Oktoberfest: one festival, 17 days, 6.2 million visitors, 6.9 million steins of beer, 104 oxen, 521,872 chickens and 142,253 pairs of pork sausages. Yes, the hedonistic Munich-based beer festival is rowdy, raucous and raunchy. The kind of hazy place where tourists and proud Bavarians stagger together to clink steins of amber lager and eat mountains…
Winter Getaway to Tofino
Looking out at the crashing waves does wonders for the soul. The long stretches of Pacific Ocean that border Vancouver Island’s West Coast are dotted by rippling stretches of beach, aquamarine sea anemone, colourful starfish, crags of mussels and barnacles, tangles of kelp and lush, vibrant forest. As far as the eye can see is ocean—just…
Amber Turnau | Storyteller 