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Greetings from Thailand!

I'm sure most travellers in Canada by now have heard about the government decision to bail out Air Canada, as the airline industry worldwide is reeling from the ongoing pandemic.

I did a video about the subject of bailing out the airlines all the way back last March, and with the situation still raging over a year later, it's no surprise to find ourselves where we are on this.

Check out the replay from our recent Q&A webinar for our rescheduled cruise program along the coast of Sicily, through the Aeolian Islands and to the fortressed islands of Malta:

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Oh, I should have known.

Or more correctly, I should have checked. It was the first flower I ever gave someone - and yet, there’s me, with no knowledge of plants or flowers at all. I should have known I’d get myself into trouble. Perhaps someone who grew up surrounded by flowers, steeped in both their nature in the wild and their meanings in the human world, would have spotted my blunder in advance.

Greetings from Thailand!

Well, the mood in most places these days seems rather dour; here in Thailand we too are in the process of re-locking down in the face of a 'Third Wave', albeit one that is several degrees of magnitude smaller than what's going on in North America and parts of Europe.

Check out the replay from our recent Q&A webinar, where Gordon goes through the program structure and the highlights for our 2022 trip to explore some of the most pristine gardens in Europe and the UK:

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Greetings from Thailand!

I've been keep abreast of the situation in Canada as the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the globe, and needless to say its disheartening to see many of my friends and family entering yet another lockdown situation back at home.

Check out the replay from our recent Q&A webinar about our Spring 2022 trip to visit Porto and the Azores:

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Greetings from Thailand!

This past week we looked to the future of our LiveAway programs in our LiveAways: Next Steps webinar, where we did a bit of a deeper dive into what it might look like to spend a month in Bali, Tuscany, Malta, or Colombia (you can watch the replay here if you're curious).

I've since gotten tons of great feedback, with Tuscany (perhaps unsurprisingly) coming out as the most popular, though with lots of interest in all of the options.

A couple of weeks ago, The Atlantic ran an article by writer Ellen Cushing, who documented what the pandemic had done to her everyday behaviour. It’s a worrying read - but considering how weird and disruptive this last year has been, you may be able to identify with it (and with its subheading, “We have been doing this so long, we’re forgetting how to be normal”).

Cushing recounts her increasingly swiss-cheesed memory:

“The forgetting feels like someone is taking a chisel to the bedrock of my brain, prying everything loose.