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My Tuscan Holiday in 2012
On Thursday evening, 11 October 2012, Doe and I, together with our friends Doug and Marilyn, started our holiday in the beautiful town of Anghiari in Tuscany, Italy.
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My Life in Politics and its Lessons for Fundraisers
Last Friday I delivered pamphlets on behalf of a candidate for the city council here in Toronto. I did the same for our local MP at the last federal election, and then acted as a scrutineer when the votes were counted. That’s it! My career in local and national politics came to not much more than a few hours delivering bumf. But what I learned from it will be longer-lived for sure.
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“British citizens top list for visa-free travel” (unless they live in Canada)
British citizens top list for visa-free travel – Daily Telegraph I have to admit that I have never had a problem travelling in Europe using my British passport. Behind the old iron curtain, too, the words ‘Her Britannic Majesty requests and requires…’ inscribed in the large blue-black passport got me where I wanted to go. (This, fortunately, was always where the authorities wanted me to go.) Travelling in Africa gave me no more difficulty than my Canadian travelling companions experienced, even with one of those new-fangled eurobrit-style passports.
