https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:29:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-2-mauritius/ https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-2-mauritius/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:10:22 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=84974 July 19th, 2026 Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian ocean, located about 2,000 km / 1,300 mi) off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as the islands of Rodrigues, Agalega and St. Brandon. The islands […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-2-mauritius/feed/ 0 https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-2-rodrigues-island-mauritius/ https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-2-rodrigues-island-mauritius/#respond Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:23:18 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=84833 July 13th, 2026 Rodrigues is an autonomous outer island of the Republic Mauritius, located 560 km / 350 mi east of the main island of Mauritius. The outer islands of Mauritius are managed by the Prime Minister of Mauritius through the Prime Minister’s Office by the Outer Islands Development Corporation. It is really quite small […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-2-rodrigues-island-mauritius/feed/ 0 https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-1-reunion-part-two/ https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-1-reunion-part-two/#respond Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:32:59 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=84599 July 8th, 2026 After that special moment in time of seeing Piton de la Fournaise and driving back out of the National Park, we headed back eastward to the coast and the plan was to round the south end of the island stopping to see sights enroute. First was in Saint-Anne – a weirdly strangely […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-1-reunion-part-two/feed/ 0 https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-1-reunion-part-one/ https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-1-reunion-part-one/#respond Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:40:43 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=84303 July 5th, 2026 Réunion, known as Île Bourbon before 1848, is an island in the Indian Ocean that is a region of France. Part of the Mascarene Islands, it is located east of the island of Madagascar and southwest of the island of Mauritius. Its capital and largest city is Saint-Denis. The island is slightly […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/africa-1-reunion-part-one/feed/ 0 https://calderescapes.com/posts/visit-in-ontario/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:22:35 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=84314 June 24th, 2026 We arrived at Josh’s in the early afternoon, got organized, blew up our “bed” (we sleep on an air mattress) and settled in until Josh got home from work. Then we all piled in his new Plug In Prius Hybrid and went into Bolton to catch a movie – Disclosure Day. We […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/family-visits-reno-bc/ Sat, 30 May 2026 23:06:53 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83696 May 30th, 2026 After a pleasant nearly 8 hour drive, we made it the 730 km / 454 mi to Reno today. Doug had booked us a week in a suite at the Plaza Resort with a king bed, some kitchen facilities, a couch, dining table and huge bathroom. It’s an older, dated building with […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/spring-at-home/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:09:28 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83561 April 17th, 2026 We got home safe and sound with all our bags from our “escape” to Taiwan & the Philippines around 11am. Despite our flights not being red eyes per se, we really did not get a “night time” (but rather gained almost an entire day) so Fran decided to go to bed and […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/last-full-day-in-taipei-tai/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:27:22 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83355 April 16th, 2026                                                                                                          […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/saud-beach-south-back-to-manila-ph/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:12:34 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83216 April 8th, 2026 We were headed to Pagudpud – a beach area in the north of the island of Luzon.  Supposed to have it’s own “white beach”.   The drive was pretty rural with lots of small towns and farmland with rice, corn and tobacco being the main crops we could figure out. The town of […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/heading-north-on-luzon-ph/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:44:44 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83097 April 5th, 2026 Happy Easter! We had set our alarm for 5:30 am as we did not hear back from our transport before going to bed but upon ringing we saw a message that they’d pick us up at 7:30 not six. We tried to go back to sleep with no luck. After packing up […]]]>