Tag Archives: Zanzibar

13 Reasons Everyone Should Travel

Tweet My thanks to the Huffington Post for allowing me to blog for them. This is the first blog that I did for them: My HuffPost blog and this is my profile on their website. I should be posting something up there every couple of weeks. On my forty-first birthday in late 2008, I left [...]

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Photo of the Day: Stone Town, Zanzibar

Tweet From Stone Town I just loved this shot of people sitting outside watching TV in one of the many common areas in and amongst the alleyways of Stone Town. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my feed.

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Close Mindedness on Religion

Tweet I guess I should preface this semi-rant by saying I am one of the least judgmental people on the planet. Whatever floats your boat, as long as it isn’t hurting others, is fine by me. But I’m really never going to be much of a fan of intolerance and the intolerant. A few days [...]

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Photo of the Day: Sunrise Zanzibar

East side of the island, obviously. Just liked the tide being out and the sailboat temporarily beached. Sort of a neglected and decrepit look to the pic.

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Photo of the Day: Open this door!

Tweet From New-Old Stone Town, Zanzibar — just loved this shot of the cat in front of the colorful door. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my feed.

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Photo of the Day: Zanibar

Tweet From Stone Town I loved walking around Stone Town and taking pictures of the great doors there. Occasionally a nice local was willing to pose in front of one for me If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my feed.

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picture of the day – kids dancing Zanzibar

Tweet Walking down the beach with my little point-and-shoot and ran into these kids. Asked if I could take their picture. I just figured they’d stand there nicely and smile. As I pulled my camera out of my pocket, they started dancing. It was really cute. And I think the pic is pretty good If [...]

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Call to prayer video – Stone Town, Zanzibar

Islam first, pre-dawn, call to prayer from a mosque in Stone Town on Zanzibar

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Street art with meaning

Graffiti and I have a true love/hate relationship. Although I love Italy dearly, each and every time I go back, [...]

Dog Sledding in Finland

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I absolutely love dogs, but I never would have guessed how much I’d immediately take to dog sledding during my [...]

A big day for someone and my serendipity

Resting my feet after an afternoon’s worth of walking the hills of Girona in the middle of one of my [...]

A quick guide to tapas

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If you are headed to Spain, get your taste buds ready to enjoy one of the great culinary treats in [...]

Instagram Favorites, Alex Ogle, a.k.a. @Alex_Ogle

I am thinking about possibly adding a new feature to this site — great Instagram photographers that I like and [...]

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