Life's about experiences. These are mine.
The nice thing about a cruise is that you go to bed in one place and wake up in another so there is never any chance to get bored as I certainly would otherwise. Today we woke up in Cagliari in Sardinia an island we’d never visited before. The weather through the window didn’t look …
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We love Sicily having been coaxed there for a holiday a few years back by the beauty of it on the Montalbano mysteries. To date we have only done the eastern coast and so we were keen to visit the capital Palermo in the North West. It was an easy escape from the boat today …
Yes, yes, yes I know that Malta isn’t part of Italy but it would just have been way too complicated to include all the countries we are visiting in the title. Anyway, today was our first port of call and it was indeed Valletta in Malta. When we left Naples there were a number of …
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On every cruise we have been on and this is our fourth, the first full day is spent at sea. I am not sure why that is necessary and why we can’t just sail straight to the first port of call over night. I say this because the captain of the ship revealed last night …
This holiday seems to have been a long time coming, mainly because we booked it so long ago. I mean a long, long time ago. More than a year ago. So the build up has been excruciatingly long. Anyway, we are on our way finally. First stop is Bristol where the flight leaves from. I’ve …
A couple of years ago we went to Progress Theatre’s annual Writefest. This is an evening of seven short plays written and performed by local and up-and-coming actors. As you can imagine there is real mixed bag of plays on offer and the quality and therefore the enjoyability is also variable. This time out the …
There’s been a bit of a spate of visits to transport museums over the last twelve months – some declared others not – and I think I am beginning to get a bit of a reputation as a transport nerd. This latest post won’t do anything to dispel that myth. There is a local museum …
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I alluded to my special dietary requirements in yesterday’s post. It is pretty restrictive (no diary, no gluten, no corn, no onions, no garlic, no processed foods, no avocados the list is endless). This makes finding places to eat when out and about challenging and especially for breakfast it seems. At home I eat a …
Continue reading “Amsterdam ‘19 – Day Two – The Food Issue”
I have lost count of the number of times that we have visited Amsterdam but it must be six at the very least. Yet we keep coming back and each time we do it still seems as fresh and as vibrant as the first time we visited. We are back again this weekend and had …
Sometime before Concorde became operational in 1976 a guy down our road invited us as a family to go and see it at RAF Fairford. I remember vividly standing underneath this beautiful bird and going up and kicking its tyres! I’m told we were also able to go inside but I don’t remember this. Of …