Like geeks everywhere we celebrated 3.14 as Pi Day. Although we know that for a circle, Area = π × r2, we also know that pie are round. We did, we celebrated with a pie. No we didn’t go to the extreme of decorating the crust with the value of pi to many many digits, we just went to the trouble of making a flaky crusted peach pie from scratch using South Carolina peaches that we got at the peak of the season that have been waiting in the freezer for the right moment. There’s nothing like a peach pie for a taste of high summer in the lingering days of winter!
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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