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Canada and Alaska

Our first cruise based holiday. In a word, 'Breathtaking!'.

We have a friend who lives on Vancouver Island and  Wendy and I visited years ago. That time we hired a car and did a circular tour of British Columbia including Vancouver, Whistler, Jasper, Banff, and back to Vancouver.  That trip was all self arranged. Whereas this holiday was almost totally prearranged, as to be expected for a cruise holiday. However, Princess Cruises allow flexibility to extend your holiday at either end of the cruise. We decided to arrive early in Vancouver. This would have the dual benefit of a visit to our friend and of allowing time to relax and wind down from the flight and work so that we were already chilled at the start of the cruise.

Capilano Suspension Bridge

At the other end of the cruise we added a cruisetour which was effectively a coach and train tour. We selected Off the Beaten Path - Tour KA6 which resulted in a 13 day combined cruise and cruisetour.

I will arrange this site accordingly with sections on the outbound, Vancouver, the cruise, the cruisetour, and the homebound.

 

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Spending some time this May repairing links and photos damaged in the move to the new website host. Particularly the articles transferred form the previous travelogue to this, the current Travel website. 

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Change of host Sept 2023

 

In the begining of August 2023 I transfered my ivanhurst.me.uk sites, including this one from 123-reg to IONOS. It was meant to be a simple task. However, that was to to be the case. The reason for the move was primarily the hugh increase in price that 123-reg was applying regarding email boxes. Previously, the upto 500 of the boxes were included in the various hosting packages I had. Now they were going to charge for each mailbox based on size, and as far as I could make out, this was going to cost me nearly £2,000. This was not acceptable, and I did not get satisfactory answers from support. So I turned off all the auto renews and stated to move sites and domains accross to IONOS.

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This is where it starts to get a little technical.

The site is built on a content management system, CMS, using Joomla. Joomla is moving forward and version 3.10.?? is being discontinued. Future developments are for version 4.??

Similarly, PHP 7 is being replaced with PHP 8.

Part of the migration is relatively simple, I have already changed to a new template which works on the new platforms.

However, some of the helper applications, which work within Joomla are not yet ready.

Fabrik is one of those applications, if fact a significant 'Joomla Custom Website Application Builder'.

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Site refresh Easter 2021

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