Monday, January 22, 2007
True Colors facilitation
An exciting 3 days for me last week when I trained as a True Colors facilitator! See http://www.true-colors.com/ for details of this wonderful communication tool. It fits so well with all my beliefs about valuing the diversity of humankind. Hardly a surprise to find that I am a Blue, and then lots of fun getting Ian and friends to find their colours as well.
South American travels
My recent holiday was perfect. A quick summary:-
- one day touring Rio de Janeiro - beautiful
- approx 4 days in Cuzco and Machu Picchu... the Hiram Bingham train was superb and the Sanctuary Lodge hotel was also excellent. Visiting Machu Picchu was a dream come true for me and exceeded expectations. Particularly enjoyed climbing Wayna Picchu and up to the Sun Gate (Intipunko)
- one day touring Buenos Aires - also a fabulous city
- a day or so in Ushuaia, with a visit to the Tierra del Fuego National Park - running out of superlatives
- perhaps the best bit: a 3-night cruise on the Mare Australis from Ushuaia, via the Beagle Channel and landed on zodiacs at Cape Horn - so exciting! Then cruised through Magellan Straits. Stops at glaciers and Magellan island - inhabited by 200,000 small penguins. Off at Punto Arenas in Chile. The crew were wonderful and the trip could not have been better (apart from the man snoring in the next cabin!)
- 3 days in Chile - the Torres del Paine park. Enroute we saw lots of condors.
- El Calafate, in order to visit the Perito Merino glacier: 5km wide and 80m high above water... so blue and beautiful
- Llao Llao hotel at Bariloche - a great place to walk and relax. Beautiful views and scenery but it rained a lot - the worst weather of the trip, which so far had been really good.
- Then, another highlight and another dream come true for me: Iguazu waterfalls, staying at the Sheraton hotel, with wonderful views of the falls. You can get SO close to the falls, on walkways drenched by spray. Xmas morning was spent on a boat trip under the spray... soaked through!
- A final day or so in Rio, then home.
Interesting... this has been a dream of mine for at least 35 years and now I have done it. It feels quite odd.
- one day touring Rio de Janeiro - beautiful
- approx 4 days in Cuzco and Machu Picchu... the Hiram Bingham train was superb and the Sanctuary Lodge hotel was also excellent. Visiting Machu Picchu was a dream come true for me and exceeded expectations. Particularly enjoyed climbing Wayna Picchu and up to the Sun Gate (Intipunko)
- one day touring Buenos Aires - also a fabulous city
- a day or so in Ushuaia, with a visit to the Tierra del Fuego National Park - running out of superlatives
- perhaps the best bit: a 3-night cruise on the Mare Australis from Ushuaia, via the Beagle Channel and landed on zodiacs at Cape Horn - so exciting! Then cruised through Magellan Straits. Stops at glaciers and Magellan island - inhabited by 200,000 small penguins. Off at Punto Arenas in Chile. The crew were wonderful and the trip could not have been better (apart from the man snoring in the next cabin!)
- 3 days in Chile - the Torres del Paine park. Enroute we saw lots of condors.
- El Calafate, in order to visit the Perito Merino glacier: 5km wide and 80m high above water... so blue and beautiful
- Llao Llao hotel at Bariloche - a great place to walk and relax. Beautiful views and scenery but it rained a lot - the worst weather of the trip, which so far had been really good.
- Then, another highlight and another dream come true for me: Iguazu waterfalls, staying at the Sheraton hotel, with wonderful views of the falls. You can get SO close to the falls, on walkways drenched by spray. Xmas morning was spent on a boat trip under the spray... soaked through!
- A final day or so in Rio, then home.
Interesting... this has been a dream of mine for at least 35 years and now I have done it. It feels quite odd.
Newsletters published
December and January newsletters now at http://www.ambitioncoach.com/62652/89229.html.
Back online after 7 weeks!
What an eventful time since I last blogged...
On 30 November, I moved house and lost internet access. This has proved hard to regain, partly due to a 23-night holiday which delayed phone lines, then due to delays getting broadband on the line. Ouch!
When I finally downloaded emails into Outlook, I had approx. 5,800. Of these, 2,800 went straight into a spam folder and most of the rest should have done. A slow job sifting through to find the gems amongst the dross...
Spam is a nightmare now. I hadn't fully appreciated how bad it was until this outage. I was unable to use my webmail account as it was too full of emails and just timed out when I tried to access it. I wonder why so much spam is sent - do people really fall for it?
On 30 November, I moved house and lost internet access. This has proved hard to regain, partly due to a 23-night holiday which delayed phone lines, then due to delays getting broadband on the line. Ouch!
When I finally downloaded emails into Outlook, I had approx. 5,800. Of these, 2,800 went straight into a spam folder and most of the rest should have done. A slow job sifting through to find the gems amongst the dross...
Spam is a nightmare now. I hadn't fully appreciated how bad it was until this outage. I was unable to use my webmail account as it was too full of emails and just timed out when I tried to access it. I wonder why so much spam is sent - do people really fall for it?
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