Welcome

Hi.  I’m Marie and you are very welcome to HopsSkipsandJumps.     If you are reading this you are probably like me – happiest when planning your next trip (or 2…  or 3….!) I’m a very unlikely victim of a travel bug.   Firstly,  the gene pool – my parents were of that generation that only […]

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Come On!! Move it!

Only one place this could be! Galapagos (2023) For DAN’S LEFTOVER SIGNS

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The Floating Villages of Tonlé Sap

Everyone is complaining all week about the rain – horrendous showers with enough of a gap in between to trick one into believing the worst has passed! We’re hosting two new pals we made in Madagascar last year – they’ve been like drowned rats since they arrived from the US and Canada earlier in the […]

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HERE!

This is on the Greenwich Meridian (London) which is located at 0 degrees. It marks the 24,859 mile distance along the earth’s North/South axis and back around to the same spot! FOR DAN’S CFFC THIS WEEK – INFORMATIONAL SIGNS

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WHITE

Shoreditch, London, 2023 FOR DEBBIE’S ONE WORD SUNDAY

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Far from the Madding (Bangkok) Crowd! The Summer Palace of Bang Pa-In…

Picture the royal barge making its way along the Chao Phraya River from Bangkok to the summer palace at Bang Pa-In. It’s 1880 and the boat is carrying Queen Sunanda – the 19 year old first wife of King Chulalongkorn – and their daughter, princess Kannabhorn, not yet 2 years old. The boat runs into […]

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