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My Christmas season haircut comes with baklava. #tistheseason

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It was great visiting Salt Spring Island during apple harvest time.⁠
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New post on the blog about Ciderworks cidery on beautiful Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. See link in bio.⁠
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I'm glad suffragettes did wind up in western Canada, despite the attitudes portrayed in this display at the Winnipeg Railway Museum.⁠
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Luggage has changed over the years! This display is at the Winnipeg Railway Museum.⁠
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Countess of Dufferin, the first locomotive in Western Canada, on display, along with other exhibits, at the Winnipeg Railway Museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba.⁠
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Remembering my spring visit to the Chelsea Flower Show in London, a bucket list experience I just wrote about for @travelawaitsnow⁠
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It's a winter wonderland in Winnipeg today. .
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This was my first glimpse of London's Eltham Palace - a palace both old and new, dating to medieval times with Art Deco rooms from the 1930s.⁠
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