It occurred to Elenka shortly after we left Queen Hill Resort that the plight of not just the resort, but all of Otres Beach might lie in our hands. After breakfast she sat me down and told me of her plan. We'd approach the business owners and ask what they thought of the boom-boom base bar - it's called "Otres Corner - Last Hippie Standing". Then we would explain how we felt about the place and how nowhere in the Western world would a bar be allowed to...

  Warning: contains 'makes me feel sick' content. Last year at about this time, Elenka and I visited the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. Tuol Sleng was once the main interrogation and torture centre of the Khmer Rouge, under the leadership of the notorious Pol Pot. We're back in Cambodia and have taken the next step, a visit to the killing fields. During the early to mid-70s there were many killing fields in Cambodia, where an estimated ...

 There is a Mexico, New York. There's even a Texas, New York. Texas isn't far from Mexico. Elenka and I stopped at these places after going to a baseball game in Buffalo, on our way to hooking up with the in-laws, Judka and David at Lower Beverly Lake, north of Kingston. But our odd little journey has little to do with what this entry is really all about: During our 2010 travels, Elenka and I met Lorcan and Brunella a young couple from Dublin. We were ...

We actually arrived home on June 24. To see our European adventure go to the previous three entries: 

    Bavarian animal barns are attached to the homes in which farm families live. That's not to say they mingle amongst one another, it's more like what we Torontonians would call a semi-detached dwelling. Connie's on one side, Elenka and I on the other - see photos of our semi-detached house vs a Bavarian barn/home. We paid a visit to one such farm, it was where Renate Schönbach was born and raised. Her brother Gunter still runs the farm with his...