Another retrospective post of our newsletter. Intent to backdate till Q1-15 – aka January 2015, as if we begun blog posting then… hee
This issue is one with an example of how we find ways and means to catch up and meet with travel companions and friends made from many years ago. Val is still leading tours all over even at her advanced age. What a gal! We met in the summer (northern hemisphere one) of 1996 when taking the Trafalgar tour of Scandinavia. Her camera went kaput and fortunately we had a spare which we lent her. And those where the days of the film camera!
All these years we had kept in constant contact and exchanged greeting cards (Suan did the work of course). Whenever Val has a stopover in Singapore on her way to any of her long journeys, we will try to meet up for a meal, coffee etc. Anyhow, for this occasion, Val did not have much of a stopover and we only had some morning coffee before she headed to the airport.
Click The Long Journey Q3-2015 to view PDF
For our own selves, we were in “avatar” land, the famous Zhang-Jia-Jie (张家界). Supposedly the landscape that inspires the movie, we spent a full 3 days in the area but were thwarted by the mist! It seems that this is the norm more than exception…
I guess this gives us the reason to visit again, hopefully when the skies are clearer!
