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The Pommern Survived Both World Wars

with no damage and also was used to carry grain from Australia to England - quite a history
Another Courtesy Flag Needed - Åland Islands

July 28th 2014
We thought we had all the courtesy flags we needed for the countries we were going to visit this season. We were wrong, we found out that we needed another one for the Åland Islands (pronunciation: 'oland). We had to actually look up information about this group of islands. What we discovered was that this group of islands is an autonomous Swedish speaking region of Finland which is located at th ... read more
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Finnish Flag Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809. It won its complete independence in 1917. During World War II, it was able to successfully defend its f... ... read more
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Like so many others we love to travel and we love to sail so cruising makes a lot of sense. Janice has retired from Cornell as a business manager and Bob has retired from South Seneca school district as the high school principal. It's time to sell the house, get rid of whatever doesn't fit on our 40 foot Caliber LRC named Tsamaya (this means Travel Well in Setswana) and set off to see the world. Our reasons for publishing this blog is twofold, first to keep in touch with our friends and family and secondly to share our experiences. If you would like to receive notification when we have added ... full info
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