As of this morning we are reestablishing our practice of building a fire on cool mornings and using the fireplace to heat the house. However now with this new gas stove, “building the fire” means hitting the On button on the remote! And we can also set the thermostat using the remote to keep the house at a comfortable temperature all day. Neither of us plans on missing the old routines of log splitting and stacking, firewood toting, fire tending, or fireplace cleaning!
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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