Life's about experiences. These are mine.
I’ve been to the Dr Who Experience once before but since then it has moved to a bigger space and the show has got even bigger. Also I was visiting on 23rd November, the day of the 50th anniversary so I had assumed that it would put on a bit of a show.… Read the rest
Having lived and studied in Portsmouth for four years I have been down to the historic dockyard a number of times and seen the Mary Rose.
While it has been undergoing its restoration over the last 30 years it has been housed in what was little more than a plastic hanger.… Read the rest
Now when I go on holiday I do like to take a photo or two but even I was surprised when I downloaded them and found we had taken 1027!
Greece is a beautiful place and it is easy to get carried away with the snapping, especially now that everything is digital and there is no cost for processing.… Read the rest
After the rains of yesterday we had expected it to be wet again today so were pleased to see that it was dry when we got up and so we quickly got in the car and made our way to Palaiokastritsa.… Read the rest
We had decided to take part in one of the organised activities this morning – a walk to a local bee producers. About a dozen people including ourselves turned up to be taken by the tour guide just a short distance to the factory where the owner was on hand to show us round and answer any questions we might have.… Read the rest
Although we have a hire car we decided that it would be better to take the bus from the hotel to Corfu Town today. It seemed that everyone else from the hotel had also had the same idea as the bus was packed and we seemed to get shuffled from being at the front of the queue to the back – what happened to a nice bit of orderly queueing?… Read the rest
We got out and about in the hire car today. We decided to visit Mount Pantokrator, the highest point on the island at 906M, as it had been recommended both in the books and by the local guide.
You can drive right to the very top of the mountain and as it is a very steep ascent the road is very winding.… Read the rest
Try as you might it is impossible to escape the fact that this is a package holiday, one of the very few we have ever taken, perhaps only our second. This means that there is a rep here in the hotel and this morning there was a welcome meeting for all the new guests.… Read the rest
So that is week one of the holiday done and we move from ship to shore as we transfer to a hotel.
In some ways I will be sorry to leave the ship behind. It is a great way to see a number of destinations in a short space of time, which is exactly why we chose it in the first place.… Read the rest
And as if by magic Helen was better again meaning that we could do something together today. We actually had nothing planned and had already decided to see what the port destination was like before deciding.
Katakolon is pretty but tiny and with very little in the way of diversions.… Read the rest