
Vanilla, pretty exciting actually
I love vanilla. Always have. A scoop of vanilla ice cream, especially vanilla bean ice cream. Vanilla sauce, warm or cold, on fresh berries or poached
We (‘Spice’ and ‘Magellan’) are a newly retired couple with a passion for active independent travel. One of our first trips after turning 65 was to Spain, which explains its melodious word for retirees—jubilados—in our tagline. What will you get by taking vicarious trips with us? Ideas, insight and inspiration.
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I love vanilla. Always have. A scoop of vanilla ice cream, especially vanilla bean ice cream. Vanilla sauce, warm or cold, on fresh berries or poached
Duckish. At the head of the Baie Verte peninsula in northwestern Newfoundland, it’s the word the folks in the port of La Scie use to
I was not an ideal daughter. (Watch the comments section for confirmation from my siblings, cousins, aunts…) But in mom’s last years, blind, immobile, in
In my mind’s library of favourite places we’ve stayed, The Old Bookstore in Iceland is a classic, an original that sparks deeper appreciation every time I
Are you, like us, uncertain about the future impacts of AI? One morning you’re an Optoomer (my word: “optimistic person”). By afternoon, a Doomer. Come
On the first Sunday in August 2015, we launched latitude65.ca, in which our firstpost answered The Question, “In your around-the-world-trip, what was your favourite place?”—our two
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