Anne Webster happily listening along to Ebbi Baldursson of Eyjatours (https://www.eyjatours.com/) share on the puffins that visit Storhofdi on the Icelandic island of Heimaey. Heimaey is the largest island in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago. The archipelago is also known as the Westman Islands. Ebbi leads a popular tour there called 'Puffin and Volcano' (https://www.eyjatours.com/puffin-and-volcano-tour).

Read more about Anne's experience on Roamancing: https://roamancing.com/2023/11/icelandic-island-of-heimaey/

#shorts #iceland

Here's something you don't see every day! During an hour and a half wait for a table at the Tempe Market Place, Lori stumbled across Tacotopia. Not one to turn down a good time, she went in focused on mastering the Tacotopia Mechanical Taco!
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See the big fall at 0:21 and....
A bonus Guacamole foam pit at 0:25
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Tacotopia is a pop up playground making its way around. Visit here for details and locations: https://atacotopia.com/welcome/
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On a recent visit to Deauville, France in Normandy, we were fortunate to spend time with Gilbert Hamel, who spent an afternoon sharing World War II stories from Deauville with us. At the end of WWII, he was a boy of 14. Here he shares his memories with us of the Canadian soldiers, who came in the sweep for mines.

We've been researching the World War II and the Normandy Campaign for a documentary project, and are very appreciative to Gilbert Hamel for taking the time to share with us, and to inDeauville for setting up this meeting for us, and to Sandrine Chardon for taking us on a tour of Deauville's WWII history and translating for us.

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Deauville is a seaside resort town and port on the English Channel rich in culture, history, and sport. You can lean more about it here: https://www.indeauville.fr/

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For more Roamancing follow along with our adventures and antics at http://roamancing.com, and connect with us on twitter at https://twitter.com/Roamancing, on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/roamancing, and with me, Erica, on instagram at http://instagram.com/EricaHargreave.

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#LestWeForget #WWII #NormandyCampaign #Remembrance #RemembranceDay #Deauville #MapleLeafTrail #WorldWarII #CanadianSoldiers

This box breathing exercise, also known as square breathing, is meant to be followed along and breathed to, but can be done by drawing or imagining your own 'air square' wherever you are. A slow and mindful breath helps to slow down the pace of an anxious mind.

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For more on mindfulness, yoga, wellness, fitness and overall living through joy and determination, follow me (Lori Yearwood) on Instagram @phoenixmoments (https://instagram.com/phoenixmoments).

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#mindfulness #LivingWithPain #NPAW2019 #anxiety #painmanagement #chronicpain #meditation #mentalhealth

Let the slow motion of floating balloons bring about a zen-like lightness for yourself. This video is meant to be watched in a few different ways. First, watch this meditative balloon drop for its own immersive quality. Next, watch it again while slowly counting how many white balloons you see. Then watch it again to count how balloons you see with confetti inside, and finally, watch it to count how many gold balloons you see. In this way, you bring about a single minded focus for your mind, giving it a break from being so busy!

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For more on mindfulness, yoga, wellness, fitness and overall living through joy and determination, follow me (Lori Yearwood) on Instagram at @phoenixmoments (https://instagram.com/phoenixmoments).
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For more Roamancing follow along with our adventures and antics at http://roamancing.com, and connect with us on twitter at https://twitter.com/Roamancing and on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/roamancing.

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#meditative #LivingWithPain #NPAW2019 #chronicpain #painawareness

Enjoyed a few Ghost Stories from Westfield Heritage Village this Halloween, inside the house of Samuel Bamberger.

Stay tuned this Autumn as we share more fun tales from Westfield Heritage Village's Halloween Haunt.

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To explore Westfield Heritage Village further, visit: https://westfieldheritage.ca/

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#livinghistory #ghoststories #ghosts #Halloween #spooky #haunted

Having fun celebrating Swiss National Day in Canada ~ https://roamancing.com/2019/07/celebrating-swiss-national-day-in-canada/

This ridiculously fun moment is brought to you from the S-Bahn Band and the Swiss National Day festivities in Vancouver. Such a fun afternoon and evening.

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To celebrate Swiss National Day in Vancouver, Air Canada (https://www.aircanada.com) is offering 15% off of flights from Vancouver to Zurich, with the Promo Code ACYVRZRH15A, if you book your flight by August 9th, 2019.

Switzerland Tourism, Air Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery have also teamed up and offer the trip of a lifetime to Switzerland, the birthplace of artist Alberto Giacometti to one lucky winner: https://www.myswitzerland.com/en-us/microsites/market-us/giacometti-in-vancouver Apply for a chance to win by Thursday, August 31, 2019, at 11:59 PM PST.

And if you happen to be in Vancouver prior to September 29, 2019, you can visit the 'Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time' exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery: http://vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/alberto-giacometti-a-line-through-time

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#Switzerland #inLOVEwithSwitzerland #SwissNationalDay #SwissAbroad #Vancouver

Having been too hot to attempt in the summer, Lori set out with a friend during the perfect cool cloudy day and has shared with you her experience of hiking Camelback Mountain in Phoenix Arizona.

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on facebook at:

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and with Lori on instagram at:

https://www.instagram.com/phoenixmoments/.

Embarrassed to share that this year marked our first ever adventures at the Vancouver Christmas Market, but after discovering vendors from around the world, we've now enjoyed a few adventures around the globe at the Vancouver Christmas Market. Our first tale from the 2018 Vancouver Christmas Market is Part 1 on the Wood Crafts of Seiffen in the German Erzgebirge in Saxony, Germany.

These tales of the talented wood crafts people of Seiffen, Germany were shared with us by Charmain Lardner at Das Nutcracker Haus at the 2018 Vancouver Christmas Market. This stall is hosted by the Hoffman Company, featuring folk art from the German Erzgebirge. The wood craftsman that Charmain mentions in this video is Christian Ulbricht.

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To learn more about Das Nutcracker Haus, visit https://www.vancouverchristmasmarket.com/vendor/the-nutcracker-house-and-lauscha-glass-ornaments/

To see more folk art of Erzgebirge, visit https://www.german-woodart.com/index.html

For more of Christian Ulbricht's work, visit https://www.ulbricht.com

To discover what else the Vancouver Christmas Market has to explore, visit https://www.vancouverchristmasmarket.com

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#VanChristmas #yvr #ChristmasMarket #WoodCrafts #Erzgebirge #Seiffen #Germany #GermanCrafts #GermanWoodCrafts #ChristianUlbrich

Following the Grease Trail: BC's Nass Valley - Then & Now, is the latest story that has been titillating of synapses. As such, we are pitching it in the Storyhive Documentary Edition.

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For more of a tease on what's to come, here is the synapsis:

Sparked by the oil of one small fish, the Pacific Northwest’s first highways and settlement corridors were established. This was a fish (the eulachon) that on occasion held the balance between the life and death of communities in it’s oil, and it now struggles for it’s own survival, listed as endangered in many of it’s once rich spawning grounds in the Pacific Northwest, in turn impacting the cultures of the indigenous communities whose way of life evolved around this fish and it’s valuable oil that created the Grease Trails of the Pacific Northwest. Travelling those routes today, we exploring BC’s indigenous knowledge and culture, and see how the First Nations communities along the Grease Trails have changed. We begin our journey starting with one of the healthiest eulachon spawning grounds in the heart of the Nisga’a territory in BC’s Nass Valley. Here the Seasons revolve around the traditional harvest cycles, and the Nisga’a New Year, Hobiiyee, is kicked off every year in February with the return of the eulachon to spawn in the mighty Nass River. It is here that our story begins.

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Our thanks to the following individuals for the use of their Creative Commons images:

- the Eulachon: James Crippen (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eulachon.jpg)

- Eulachon Fishing: Canadian Museum of History (https://www.historymuseum.ca/)

- Nass River: Connie Azak (https://www.flickr.com/photos/134712572@N06/)

- Nisga'a Dancers: Jethro Taylor (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rustybadger/)

This video is about Jewels of the 2018 Art and Automobile Exhibit

To spread a little love around this February and discover some channels that make you smile, get you thinking, and / or inspire you, we are hosting a channel meet and greet with a particular focus on travel, culture and adventure. Here's how it works:

- Introduce yourself and your channel in the comments below.
- Go checkout other channels that are shared in the comments, that sound interesting to you, and watch some of their videos.
- If you enjoy their videos, give them a thumbs up, write a comment, and consider subscribing to them.

There are a tonne of talented creators out there, and size does not matter, and poke around and discover something new!

Our thanks to Carley at The Last Grownup in the Woods for this wonderful idea: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuS52O9gRYXNZoLByaGNpjQ

Happy Holidays! With love from our family to yours.

We hope you are getting a chance to unwind, slow down and relax this holiday season.

Nothing like undressing, kissing and hugging to get to know something better, especially when that 'something' is nature. Nature and natural healing on Salt Spring Island is exactly what Cornelia Krikke introduced me to in Episode 4 of Season 1, #NaturallySaltSpring, of Naturally Ours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpV4uIM1kg4&list=PL3A91ZSWvSVUcu8R38xrg9Foc4I5id-5b)-5b)!

In this episode of Naturally Ours, Erica is in a state of relaxed bliss as she gets a little more intimate with the natural world on Salt Spring Island, thanks to Cornelia Krikke. Cornelia teaches Erica all about our connections with nature from meditating in trees to grounding in the Earth. Erica may even get a little carried away, sharing more than one kiss with a tree.

Missed Episode 1, 2 or 3? Catch Episode 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtvSrYloS3g, Episode 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7dv-ivOPak and Episode 3 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mdV4aSsHM0

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Discover more about:

- Salt Spring Island at http://www.saltspringtourism.com/
- Cornelia's Studio, Transformative Practices at http://transformative-practices.org/

We will be sharing more on all of the people and places above on different platforms of social media with the hashtags #NaturallySaltSpring and #NaturallyOurs.

You can also follow along with our adventures at http://roamancing.com, and connect with us on twitter at https://twitter.com/Roamancing, on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/roamancing, and with me, Erica, on instagram at http://instagram.com/EricaHargreave.

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Season 1 of Naturally Ours, Naturally Salt Spring, is brought to you by the creatives of Ahimsa Media (http://ahimsamedia.com/) and Nice Lady Productions (http://www.niceladyproductions.com/).

Kissing trees, wandering around on frozen ground in socked feet, meditating in trees ... sounding a wee bit crazy? Not for Erica, she breaths a sigh of relaxation at what's to come with Episode 4 of Season 1 of Naturally Ours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpV4u...), Naturally Salt Spring. Tune in December 6th, 2017 to find out what Erica melting into the frozen Earth.

In the meantime, if you've yet to see them or wish to watch them again (which we highly encourage), tune in to:

- Episode 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtvSr...
- Episode 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7dv-...
- Episode 3 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mdV4...

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We will be sharing more on all of the people and places above on different platforms of social media with the hashtags #NaturallySaltSpring and #NaturallyOurs.

You can also follow along with our adventures at http://roamancing.com, and connect with us on twitter at https://twitter.com/Roamancing, on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/roamancing, and with me, Erica, on instagram at http://instagram.com/EricaHargreave.

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Season 1 of Naturally Ours, Naturally Salt Spring, is brought to you by the creatives of Ahimsa Media (http://ahimsamedia.com/) and Nice Lady Productions (http://www.niceladyproductions.com/).

Positively hooting over Salt Spring Island's Owls, and Episode 3 of Season 1, #NaturallySaltSpring, of Naturally Ours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpV4uIM1kg4&list=PL3A91ZSWvSVUcu8R38xrg9Foc4I5id-5b)-5b)!

In this episode of Naturally Ours, Erica is in a state of naturalist bliss as she gets to discover more about one of her favourite forest creatures on Salt Spring Island the owl. She is not alone in this love, as the owl is featured in many Salt Spring Island artists' work and Erica is fortunate enough to be invited into the studio of Salt Spring Wool Arts, and watch Aki Otsu craft his beautiful birds. The night wouldn't be complete though, without a little owl prowl of her own with Glen Tremblay at Cusheon Lake. They might even teach you how to call a Barred Owl.

Missed Episode 1 or 2? Catch Episode 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtvSrYloS3g and Episode 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7dv-ivOPak

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Discover more about:

- Salt Spring Island at http://www.saltspringtourism.com/
- Salt Spring Wool Arts: https://saltspringwoolarts.weebly.com/
- Cusheon Lake Resort: http://www.cusheonlake.com/

We will be sharing more on all of the people and places above on different platforms of social media with the hashtags #NaturallySaltSpring and #NaturallyOurs.

You can also follow along with our adventures at http://roamancing.com, and connect with us on twitter at https://twitter.com/Roamancing, on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/roamancing, and with me, Erica, on instagram at http://instagram.com/EricaHargreave.

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Season 1 of Naturally Ours, Naturally Salt Spring, is brought to you by the creatives of Ahimsa Media (http://ahimsamedia.com/) and Nice Lady Productions (http://www.niceladyproductions.com/).

If we are honest, Erica Hargreave is already a little BATTY, but she's going positively OWLY for our upcoming episode of Season 1 of Naturally Ours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpV4uIM1kg4&list=PL3A91ZSWvSVUcu8R38xrg9Foc4I5id-5b)-5b), Naturally Salt Spring. You see, one of Erica's favourite forest creatures is the owl, which the webisode is dedicated to! #TuneIn November 22nd, 2017 to see just what Erica is hooting about.

In the meantime, if you've yet to see them or wish to watch them again (which we highly encourage), tune in to:

- Episode 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtvSrYloS3g
- Episode 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7dv-ivOPak

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We will be sharing more on all of the people and places above on different platforms of social media with the hashtags #NaturallySaltSpring and #NaturallyOurs.

You can also follow along with our adventures at http://roamancing.com, and connect with us on twitter at https://twitter.com/Roamancing, on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/roamancing, and with me, Erica, on instagram at http://instagram.com/EricaHargreave.

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Season 1 of Naturally Ours, Naturally Salt Spring, is brought to you by the creatives of Ahimsa Media (http://ahimsamedia.com/) and Nice Lady Productions (http://www.niceladyproductions.com/).

Welcome to Ruckle Heritage Farm on Salt Spring Island, and Episode 2 of Season 1, #NaturallySaltSpring, of Naturally Ours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpV4uIM1kg4&list=PL3A91ZSWvSVUcu8R38xrg9Foc4I5id-5b)-5b)!

In this episode of Naturally Ours, we visit British Columbia's oldest work farm, Ruckle Heritage Farm, where we are met with beauty of place, love of the residents, and depth of understanding from farmer and caretaker, Mike Lane. Mike's understanding of ecosystems, carbon cycles, and maintaining a sustainable footprint on Ruckle Heritage Farm far exceeds that of many who study the environmental science. Why? Because he is intimately familiar with the land and the animals he works with and cares for everyday. We learned so much from him, in our brief visit.

Missed Episode 1? Catch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtvSrYloS3g

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Discover more about:

- Salt Spring Island at http://www.saltspringtourism.com/
- Ruckle Heritage Farm: http://www.ruckleheritagefarm.com/
- Ruckle Provincial Park: http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/ruckle/

We will be sharing more on all of the people and places above on different platforms of social media with the hashtags #NaturallySaltSpring and #NaturallyOurs.

You can also follow along with our adventures at http://roamancing.com, and connect with us on twitter at https://twitter.com/Roamancing, on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/roamancing, and with me, Erica, on instagram at http://instagram.com/EricaHargreave.

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Season 1 of Naturally Ours, Naturally Salt Spring, is brought to you by the creatives of Ahimsa Media (http://ahimsamedia.com/) and Nice Lady Productions (http://www.niceladyproductions.com/).

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Here's a tease of what's to come in Episode 2 of Season 1 of Naturally Ours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpV4u...), Naturally Salt Spring. We are getting excited to introduce you to British Columbia's oldest heritage farm, Ruckle Heritage Farm and Provincial Park on Salt Spring Island, and to the man that cares for it and the creatures that call it home, Mike Lane. As Mike began to talk, we were in awe of the depth to his understanding of the land, but to learn more about that, you'll have to tune in ... it is now live right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7dv-...

If you've yet to see it or wish to watch it again (which we highly encourage, tune into Episode 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtvSr...

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We will be sharing more on all of the people and places above on different platforms of social media with the hashtags #NaturallySaltSpring and #NaturallyOurs.

You can also follow along with our adventures at http://roamancing.com, and connect with us on twitter at https://twitter.com/Roamancing, on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/roamancing, and with me, Erica, on instagram at http://instagram.com/EricaHargreave.

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Season 1 of Naturally Ours, Naturally Salt Spring, is brought to you by the creatives of Ahimsa Media (http://ahimsamedia.com/) and Nice Lady Productions (http://www.niceladyproductions.com/).

Welcome to Salt Spring Island and Episode 1 of Season 1 in 4K, #NaturallySaltSpring, of Naturally Ours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpV4uIM1kg4)!

In this first episode, meet Cowichan Knowledge Keeper Hwiemtun and Geographer and Artist Briony Penn. Hwiemtun welcomes us to the Coast Salish Territory and shares the importance of reconnecting with the land, because as his Uncle reminds us, we are all Indigenous to somewhere in the world. This connection to the land is something Briony explores from the perspective of the member of a family who were settlers on Salt Spring Island and the need for reconciliation to move forward. "There's a saying on this Island, 'Don't try and change Salt Spring, let Salt Spring change you."

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Discover more about:

- Salt Spring Island at http://www.saltspringtourism.com/

- Hwiemtun talking about his family and his people and the importance of the Cowichan Estuary: https://vimeo.com/141730060

- Hwiemtun sharing on Cowichan culture as a part of a Wilderness International (http://www.wilderness-international.org/) youth program that he was a part of: https://vimeo.com/45356926

- the Cowichan People at https://www.cowichantribes.com/

- Briony Penn at http://www.cowantherealthing.com/about-briony-penn

- Cusheon Lake at http://www.cusheonlake.com/

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We will be sharing more on all of the people and places above on different platforms of social media with the hashtags #NaturallySaltSpring and #NaturallyOurs.

You can also follow along with our adventures at http://roamancing.com, and connect with us on twitter at https://twitter.com/Roamancing, on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/roamancing, and with me, Erica, on instagram at http://instagram.com/EricaHargreave.

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Season 1 of Naturally Ours, Naturally Salt Spring in 4K, is brought to you by the creatives of Ahimsa Media (http://ahimsamedia.com/) and Nice Lady Productions (http://www.niceladyp..