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Backpack and SnorkelBarbados Swimming with turtles, white sand beaches, turquoise waters...Barbados has it all. Need more information on what to se in Barbados and what to do in Barbados? Check out my blog. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BUCKETLIST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BUCKETLIST</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TravelBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TravelBlog</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Travel</a> <a href="https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Barbados/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Barbados/</a>

Backpack and Snorkel<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Holbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Holbox</a> is an uncrowded <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/paradise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paradise</a> located just 2.5h outside <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Cancun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cancun</a> , <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mexico</a> . It has white sand <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/beaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#beaches</a> , <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/turquoise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#turquoise</a> water, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/flamingos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flamingos</a> , beautiful <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/murals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#murals</a> and much more. How did you like it? Here is what we did: <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BucketList" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BucketList</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Holbox/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Holbox/</a>

Backpack and SnorkelHave you ever traveled to a new place and you instantly knew it was your Personal <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Paradise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Paradise</a> ? This happened to us with Isla Mujeres. Check out my blog to see what got us hooked. Have you been there? <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Travel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/traveltribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#traveltribe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BUCKETLIST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BUCKETLIST</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mexico</a> <a href="https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Isla-Mujeres/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Isla-Mujeres/</a>

Backpack and SnorkelThe Okavango Delta is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa. Every year it transforms from a dry barren landscape to a fertile water covered delta in the middle of the desert. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Botswana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botswana</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BUCKETLIST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BUCKETLIST</a> <a href="https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Botswana/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Botswana/</a>

AbieMai 2024 (suite)Mot du jour : Tshukudu ou Tchoudoukou, au Congo, sorte de longue trottinette rustique en bois utilisée pour le transport de marchandise. <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/motdujour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#motdujour</a> <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tshukudu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tshukudu</a>Word of the day: Lacunose, d'un texte ou une inscription, lacunaire. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacuna_(manuscripts)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacuna_(manuscripts)</a>Word of the day: Chartist, membre du mouvement ouvrier anglais dit chartisme réclamant une profonde réforme sociale au XIXe siècle. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartism</a> À ne pas confondre avec un Chartiste français, pour qui le XIXe siècle n'existe pas :) <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_nationale_des_chartes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_nationale_des_chartes</a>Word of the day: Sturdy beggar. In historical English law, a sturdy beggar was a person who begged or wandered while fit and able to work. "In 1547, a bill was passed that subjected vagrants to some of the more extreme provisions of the criminal law: two years' servitude and branding with a "V" as the penalty for the first offence and death for the second." from the same podcast :) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturdy_beggar" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturdy_beggar</a>Mot du jour : Ovosexage, ou comment sexer les œufs de poule. <a href="https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/histoires-economiques/comment-connaitre-le-sexe-des-oeufs-9756007" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/histoires-economiques/comment-connaitre-le-sexe-des-oeufs-9756007</a> <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexage_in_ovo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexage_in_ovo</a>Mot et nom rigolo du jour : Aliboufier (Styrax officinalis), arbre aromatique méditerranéen. <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliboufier" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliboufier</a>Word of the day: Self-serious, qui se prend trop au sérieux. <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/self-serious" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/self-serious</a>Words of the day, via @ZachWeinersmith <a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/new-word" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/new-word</a>Word of the day: To hurkle-durkle, "to lie in bed or lounge about when one should be up and about". <a href="https://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/hurkle-durkle-scots-word-meaning-origin-4491313" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/hurkle-durkle-scots-word-meaning-origin-4491313</a>Word of the day: Bed rotting <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/05/bed-rotting-why-it-is-time-to-embrace-your-quilt-without-the-guilt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/05/bed-rotting-why-it-is-time-to-embrace-your-quilt-without-the-guilt</a>Mots du jour : Crénologie et Crénothérapie, respectivement l'étude des sources et celle des (éventuels) bienfaits des eaux de sources sur la santé. via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Curiolog" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Curiolog</a> <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14947711/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14947711/</a>Mot du jour : Archelle, étagère faite d'une seule planche, souvent de dotée de crochets sur sa face inférieure. <a href="https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/archelle" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/archelle</a> Word of the day: Rhizine, multicellular root-like structure arising mainly from the lower surface of foliose lichen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizine" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizine</a>Mot du jour / Word of the day: Cymatique / Cymatics, néologisme de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle, du grec « κῦμα » « vague », technique permettant la visualisation des vibrations acoustiques. <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatique" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatique</a>Word of the day: Pencil whipping, signing off on work that was never actually completed, e.g an inspection or a quality check. via <a href="https://norcal.social/@Edgar/112384637347202101" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://norcal.social/@Edgar/112384637347202101</a>"So-called “scientific forestry” was [the late 18th] century’s growth hacking." <a href="https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/</a> "It was a disaster so bad that a new word, Waldsterben, or “forest death,” was minted to describe the result."Mot du jour : Macaroni, ou Mochlique : (Pharmacie)(Désuet) Préparation fortement purgative d'origine italienne, contenant des sels d'antimoine, employée anciennement contre la colique métallique. <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/macaroni#fr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/macaroni#fr</a> <a href="https://www.littre.org/definition/mochlique" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.littre.org/definition/mochlique</a>Avril 2024Mot et fruit du jour : Asimine, fruit charnu d'Asimina triloba, "baie comestible de forme oblongue, à chair crémeuse et dont le goût rappelle à la fois la banane et la mangue." American papaw en anglais. Ajouté à ma <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/bucketlist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bucketlist</a> ! <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiminier_trilob%C3%A9" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiminier_trilob%C3%A9</a>Mot du jour : Pistolérisme, Espagne v. 1919-1923, de l'espagnol pistolero, tireur, utilisation par le patronat d'hommes de main pour exécuter des syndicalistes ouvriers : « liquider les meneurs et terroriser les militants ». <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol%C3%A9risme" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol%C3%A9risme</a>Word of the day: "Algorithmic folklore" <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01634437221077174" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01634437221077174</a>Word of the day: Athwart, obsolète ou nautique, en travers. Au sens figuré : en opposition à. Voir aussi : to thwart, déjouer, faire échouer. <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/athwart" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/athwart</a> Image : <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Human-gait-at-sea-while-walking-fore-aft-vs.-Haaland-Kaipust/c3b62c243232683531675279aafdc5f1ac232521/figure/0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Human-gait-at-sea-while-walking-fore-aft-vs.-Haaland-Kaipust/c3b62c243232683531675279aafdc5f1ac232521/figure/0</a>"Il a par ailleurs rédigé (...) divers mémoires sur le séransage, sur le bottelage, le javelage des avoines" <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Hilaire_Gilbert" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Hilaire_Gilbert</a>Word of the day: Nearshoring. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68825118" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68825118</a>Mots du jour : Affranchisseur, restaurateur, greleur, obs., noms donnés aux soigneurs de bêtes avant que Bourgelat n'institutionalise le terme "vétérinaire". <a href="http://www.odile-halbert.com/wordpress/?p=2148" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://www.odile-halbert.com/wordpress/?p=2148</a> Affranchisseur désigne plus spécifiquement le praticien qui châtre les bêtes. "Le châtré est en effet affranchi de certaines passions. H. France, Dict.-journal; les compléments, vocabulaire de la langue verte, 1907." <a href="https://cnrtl.fr/definition/affranchir" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cnrtl.fr/definition/affranchir</a> Via @Curiolog, cœur sur lui. Mot (et néologisme ?) du jour : Adoratif. Glané chez @matoo : "je n’en suis que plus adoratif de son travail". <a href="https://blog.matoo.net/2024/03/30/adelphite-trans/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.matoo.net/2024/03/30/adelphite-trans/</a>Word of the day: Proceleusmatic, inciting, animating, or inspiring. Prosody. noting a metrical foot of four short syllables. <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/proceleusmatic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.dictionary.com/browse/proceleusmatic</a>Mot du jour : Mixotrophes, organismes à la fois ou selon les moments autotrophes ou hétérotrophes. "It is estimated that mixotrophs comprise more than half of all microscopic plankton." via <a href="https://scholar.social/@animalculum/112305311272071937" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://scholar.social/@animalculum/112305311272071937</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/motdujour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#motdujour</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/wordoftheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordoftheday</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixotroph" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixotroph</a>Mot du jour : Restanque, Provence, mur de retenue en pierre sèche. <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restanque" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restanque</a>

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