Stepping off the edge

Owlmother's adventures

Picking up where I left off… kinda

I started a blog called Stepping off the Edge when I left my comfortable middle class and middle age life in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and headed to Adelaide, Australia to return to school in 2012.

For 8 years I blogged about events in my life…family weddings, birth of grandkids, travel. I no longer own the email address associated with that blog so couldn’t continue, hence starting over in this space.

So I picked up where I left off with our trip in fall 2024 to Europe and will continue with India and the Maldives .

europe

  • amsterdam

    I’d previously visited this city of canals and bicycles, Gouda cheese and sicky sweet stroopwaffles, but forgotten all the many things it is known for… Sex is a big part of the Amsterdam culture from the Red Light District to sex shops including this condom store. Beauty – whether in the street art and decorations Read more

  • ANNE FRANK

    This is a picture of Anne Frank House where 12 year old Anne and her family and four other people of Jewish heritage hid in the ‘secret annex’ from the Nazis for 2 years. Anne and all the people in hiding were discovered by the Nazi’s in 1944 and sent to concentration camps. The only Read more