Life's about experiences. These are mine.
The hotel we are staying in, the San Domenic Palace, is housed in a 14th century monastery. It’s a beautiful place but it is a bit like staying over night in a museum. Not only is it architecturally interesting it is also littered with period furniture, some of which is roped off just like in …
So we are off on our adventures again. This time it’s to Sicily, that island being constantly kicked by the boot that is Italy. We’ve never been before and are making a visit solely based on how attactive it looks on the Inspector Montalbano TV series! Sicily is a three hour flight from the UK …
Continue reading “Sicily 2016 – Day 1 – Gatwick to Catania to Taormina”
When I told people that I was going to take a tour around the Reading Prison the general question was “why?” My response is that other than Porridge and on news reports I haven’t been into a prison – not having the pleasure of being at Her Majesty’s pleasure and all that! It’s just not …
It can’t be a coincidence that on both the occasions I have visited Manchester a fight has broken out. I suppose some might see me as the catalyst but in both cases I was an innocent bystander. We had chosen a weekend in Manchester solely because it is equidistant between the homes of ourselves in …
Like many people I have a bucket list of things that I want to do and this week I managed to tick another one off the list with a visit to the Chelsea Flower Show. I’m sure that if I could go back to my younger self and tell me that one day I’d have …
As ever we took lots and lots of pictures while in Spain so I have pulled out the best few here.
Our last day in Spain started at the bottom of the hill from were we are staying where there is the Presa De Béznar dam. We stood at the top of the dam looking down – it’s a very long way and enough to make my stomach curl. It is a curious thing in that …
Continue reading “Spain 2016 – Day 5 – Presa De Béznar And Orgiva”
After yesterday’s traipse around Granada we took it slower today starting with a walk up to the bakers to get some pain au chocolate. As described previously, like all shops, the baker here is carefully disguised as a house lest anyone find it and purchase something. To aid this further all shops also open as infrequently …
Continue reading “Spain 2016 – Day 4 – La Alpujurra and Lanjarón”
Today was the only day of the break where we had anything planned. One of the draws of being in this region was being able to visit Granada, somewhere that everyone who has been there seems to wax lyrical about. We had been warned about booking early for the Alhambra and when I did, a …
The first challenge of the day was to try and find the bakery. This was difficult for two reasons – firstly the woolly instructions we had been given on where to find it and secondly because shops don’t look much like shops here but more like private houses. It felt like a real triumph when …