Monthly Archives: September 2011
Last evening approximately 40 persons gathered at the Floradale Mennonite Church for a TourMagination evening. Our featured tour of the evening was Mexico. Our display table, with a beautifully embroidered Mexican Mennonite shawl draped over it, had brochures of our … Continue reading
A lovely day…traveling to Derry/Londonderry, or as it is known, “Stroke City.” Leaving Northern Ireland, and with lots and lots of history from Damian, we traveled into the Republic, noticing no boundaries at all, which is so different. We are … Continue reading
We arrived safely on Friday morning and were a little on the weary side. What a great group we have! We took a little tour of Belfast to get our bearings and pass some time before we could get into … Continue reading
Our continuing tour took us down Lenin Street. We stopped by a statue of Lenin with his hand raised to the west before crossing the historic Dneiper River and the hydroelectric generating dam. Soon we were on Chortiza Island once … Continue reading
The Canadians left from Toronto 40 minutes after the Americans left from Washington. We converged in Vienna within an hour of each other to be met by a cold driving rain as we transferred on the tarmac from the plane … Continue reading
This morning when I woke up, the temperature was almost at the freezing point! Not long ago, we were in the middle of a hot summer. The cool weather this morning made me think of Christmas, which will be here … Continue reading
