Since retirement, I, Karen have had a lot more time for reading. I started with Ken Follett’s “World Without End”, the sequel to “Pillars of the Earth” which I have read multiple times. Then “Coal: A Human History” which discussed the geologic, economic, political, cultural, and environmental history of the fuel that enabled modern society. Then back to fiction for “Burned” by Mary Higgins Clark and “Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict” by Laurie Viera Rigler. Today I had to go to Mirror Lake Library (a place dear to my heart) to replenish my reading material. I now have “A Thousand Splendid Suns” and “The Not So Big House” to satisfy me for a few days.
Dakar, Senegal: A Wolof Village & The Pink Lake
Queen Mary 2’s arrival in the Port of Dakar, Senegal was heralded in the local press and greeted with ceremony. Our own excursion took us on a coach journey through the streets of the capital city to visit a Wolof village and the shore of Lake Retba, the salty lake famed for an intense pink color.





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