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Pottery in Bellingham

A couple of weeks ago we spent a few days in nearby Bellingham, in Washington State. Alan attended the North-West Anthropological Conference and I took the opportunity to be a tourist in this charming city. My first destination was Baker Street Ceramics studio where the resident artists are Deb McCunn and Jason Walker. Jason was our presenter at the February TriCity Potters' meeting and I…

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April 15th, 2014
travel

Guatemala

Alan has always wanted to get to Tikal Archaeological site so we booked ourselves onto a ten-day 'Caravan' tour of Guatemala in early March. I was rather concerned about the heat and humidity of the jungle but I found that with an air-conditioned bus, insect repellant when hiking and comfy hotels each evening I managed well. Ancient pottery in the museum was interesting but contemporary…

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March 24th, 2014