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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My best meal in Madrid so far at a Peruvian restaurant in the Mercado de los Mostenses: Arroz con mariscos, chicharrón des pescados, and ceviche. Tres beuno!

Arroz con mariscos, chicharrón des pescados, and ceviche. Tres beuno!

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Visited Tolèdo, Àvila, and Segovia today. Incredible places.

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Made a new buddy in Tolèdo today. He was the roundest night I could find. His name was Sir Cumference. He was happy I found his sword for him. And it was a double humdinger here today at 38c

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Visited El Retiro Park, appropriate as I’ll soon be “retiroed” myself. Gorgeous 32c in Madrid

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Watching the sun set as we eat our dinner and drink wine from the balcony

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Big wing ding starting across the street: Europa FM 30th birthday apparently

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Checking out some real estate in Madrid. Gotta watch out for them knights on horseback though.

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Greatest musical experience of my life tonight at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid with the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España conducted by Kent Nagano: an amazing performance of the Mahler 2. Bravo!

Performers receiving a deserved ovation for incredible performance of the Mahler 2

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Found this epic Bob Ross as a cat t-shirt on a recent thrifting adventure. My new fave

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Been a busy week for wildlife in my backyard near downtown Dartmouth

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Gorgeous day for a bike ride to Lawrencetown Beach

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Have determined we have a pair of nesting northern cardinals in one of the trees near our yard. Are seeing the same male and female multiple times each day. Here’s momma on one of my tomato cages

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Taken in my backyard today - a cardinal in a cherry tree (not the same as a partridge in pear tree)

A red northern cardinal perched in a cherry tree

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Beautiful blue heron spotted during my bike ride along salt marsh trail today

Great Blue Heron standing near a shoreline

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Lovely sunset out there tonight #Halisky I recommend watching a sunset at least once every day

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Here’s our girl late doggo Maggie. Sending you good wishes

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The VPO playing the Bruckner 5 is making the tubes glow majesticly tonight. Glorious music.

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Gotta love crocuses (crocii?). Such a brilliant splash of colour out of old dead grass, before anything else has even awakened from winter

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

A little over a week ago I picked up a cold bug that has been brutal. Finally relented a bit today after 7 straight days of nasty symptoms.

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The deer that moved into the neighborhood in December made an appearance in my driveway last night.

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Met this wee kitten today. I’m not a cat guy but this one almost swayed me

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Happy to have a tree up this year after not doing so last year.

Brilliantly lit Christmas tree with bright white lights and many ornaments

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Saw 3 deer together on my late afternoon walk around Oathill Lake today

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

What a difference a month (and some rain) makes. Same creek in Portobello/ Waverley one month ago and today

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Scenes from a November beach day in Nova Scotia

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

First Santa Claus, then the Easter bunny, and now another childhood belief shattered.

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🇨🇦 Darin Bo☈gel 🇨🇦 @darin-b.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Just picked the last of my peppers: with this last harvest, 2 pots of Poblanos yielded a total of 21 peppers, one pot of habaneros yielded 53 peppers!