TDB-News Post #1

Welcome to the 1st News Post of the revised “The Ducksoup Blogs”!

As a part of the move to our new platform, I will be introducing changes in format and content from time to time.

One of the first changes is automatic notification of new posts. Hopefully, if my MailPoet driven subscription list works as advertised, you will have received notification of this News Post automatically!

Another of those changes shows up in the content within the right hand sidebar!

In addition to the usual RECENT POSTS and RECENT COMMENTS areas, I have added two new ways of searching for specific posts:

The POSTS BY DATE dropdown will allow you to review all posts from a specific year and month and will show you how many posts there were for that month.

The POSTS BY TRIP dropdown will allow you to select posts from specific destinations and year.

I’m still investigating ways and means of altering the display order for these posts, as the default is newest to oldest but I would like to order them oldest to newest so the reader is working in chronological order.

The other major change is additional content for the blog.

During this COVID-19 seclusion, I have migrated some of my older blogs from another platform to WordPress and have started creating new blogs of trips to other destinations!

In addition to our frequent post of our winters spent in Uaymitun, MX, I’ve migrated some of our earlier travels to Europe and some of my work travels around the world. The latter can be displayed by selecting Doug’s Travels from the Trip catalogue.

So far, I’ve been able to include Uaymitun blogs from 2012, the winter before retirement, to 2020, the past winter shortened by the pandemic. I still have one more to recreate, which is our very first trip to the area in 2009!

  • Uaymarima
  • Celestun
  • Teatro José Peón Contreras, Mérida
  • Uxmal

From around 2006, my work was focused on a Hewlett-Packard program known as “The Digital Hospital“. This led to a customer visit to Trondheim and Oslo, Norway in 2007 which was very special as Elaine was able to come with me!

  • Den Siste Viking, Trondheim
  • River Nidelva
  • Nidaros Cathedral
  • Karl Johans gate, Oslo
  • Aker brygge
  • Vikingskipshuset

In the midst of my frequent travels outside of Canada, Elaine and I had planned an early summer 2011 trip back to England, one of our favourite destinations! However, work intervened and we had to delay it until early fall. I’ve added a blog capturing a few highlights of that England trip.

  • Corfe Castle, Dorset
  • Durdle Door, Dorset
  • Broadway, Cotswolds
  • Ring of Bells, Dartmoor
  • Port Isaac, Cornwall
  • St. Michael’s Mount

Between 2010 and 2012, my work travel was unbelievable! It included trips to London, England; Trondheim, Norway; Amsterdam, Holland; Auckland, NZ; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and two trips to Sydney, Australia and Singapore. I’ve migrated/created a few blogs from those trips, but there’s still more to be done!

  • Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
  • Singapore Bay
  • Raffles Hotel
  • Petronas Towers, KL
  • Central Market
  • Batu Caves
  • Sydney Harbour Bridge
  • Sydney Opera House

Links to all of these blog posts can be found through the two new areas in the sidebar!

I hope you’ll enjoy!

Cheers!

-doug

5 thoughts on “TDB-News Post #1”

  1. Doug, pics are amazing, can’t wait to find time ( rainy day) to read the stories. Be safe, stay healthy

  2. Hi bro, what a lot of work you’ve done! The pics look amazing, and I will definitely be reading through them all, especially England.

    1. We really enjoy reading your blog, Doug, as we have been to many of the same places. We hope you and Elaine are keeping well. Uaymitun 2021 ?

      1. Hi Joan… I’m glad you’re enjoying the blogs! We are both well! Uaymitun 2021… always hoping, but it all depends upon the Covid-19 situation here and there! How about you and Ross?

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