Archive for October, 2009

The passport arrived on Tuesday.  This was one week exactly from the day that I submitted the application.  The passport office commitment is 10 days and I got it in 7.
I checked it out and everything looks fine.
Now it is time to research the travel visa.

The shots
I went to the Travel Clinic on Wednesday.  Paul Doane was the doctor that served me.  Interestingly he was the first doctor that I had when I moved to Halifax in 1974.
He went through all of the health risks for traveling to India and identified the shots that were applicable.  He also outlined the [...]

Chris Garrett wrote an article on www.fly.co.uk with 10 tips for long distance air travels.

Book Carefully – Book your flight carefully.  Allow for connection time.  Think about the time of day to fly and to arrive.
Prepare – Get all of your travel documents early.  Passport, travel visa, airplane tickets. taxi vouchers
Work In advance – Book [...]

Compete the passport application
I got the passport application completed online.  The website http://www.passportcanada.gc.ca/index.aspx?lang=eng is very well put together.  You download the application form. There are two to pick from.  I had to use the full application form because my previous passport had expired about four years ago.

There are three of us from Sunrise Yoga studio (Sarah, Vanessa and myself) that are planning on going to Purple Valley Retreat in Goa.  Sarah has been the instigator to get the rest of us moving.
I had been planning on going to Purple Valley one of these years to study with Nancy Gilgoff.  My teacher, [...]

Here is a link to a blog by Andreas Johannesburg of South Africa where he relates his experiences during the first week of the Goa retreat in Jnauary 2009. Practicing with Nancy Gilgoff at Purple Valley yoga in Goa January 2009
Here is some comments about Nancy and the Goa retreat
Purple Valley website
Purple Valley schedule outline

The [...]