Life's about experiences. These are mine.
My annual round-up of the year just gone (you can read 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021‘s reports). This was very much a transitional year as I moved from working part time to retirement at the end of August. I haven’t fully retired yet as I am still doing some consultancy but my daily rhythm has …
When you return to the same place a number of times it becomes increasingly difficult to find new sites to visit. While we did revisit some old favourites, such as the amazing Alcazar and the Spain Square, it is always good to try something new. We sort of stumbled upon the Pilate’s House which is …
Continue reading “Seville 2022 – Day Three – Where did you lot come from?”
A curious thing today. Nobody seemed to want us! We’d set out intendng to visit the beautiful Alcazar having failed to secure tickets online last night. That was an odd thing in itself. We had got quite a long way through the booking process when we were tripped up at the final hurdle. Despite selecting …
Continue reading “Seville 2022 – Day Two – Sorry but we’re closed”
I’ve been writing these travel posts for over 13 years now and this is the first time that I’ve written them after the event. All previous posts were written on the day and then published. This time is different as I’ve been unwell and really haven’t felt like doing them. So here they are a …
On a trip up North over the last few days we visited Scarborough home of the Stephen Joseph Theatre. Most closely associated with Alan Ayckbourn (all but four of his plays have debuted there) but we weren’t seeing an Ayckbourn but the revival of a play called Constellations by Nick Payne. When we got in …
Continue reading “Constellations, Stephen Joseph Theatre – Into the Multiverse”
I was supposed to be visiting the Science Museum today to see their science fiction exhibition. I’d deliberately left the booking of my ticket for this and the train until yesterday as I didn’t want to be going up if it was bucketing it down as I was intending to walk from the station to …
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I wanted to do one more post on our recent US holiday taking a look at it in terms of some significant numbers. One number I won’t be concentrating on too closely is that of the pound to dollar rate which hit a virtual parity while we were away. Ouch! Miles driven: 3,277 We already …
DAY 22 – Park City to Salt Lake City (27 miles driven, 6.96 miles walked) Our flight back to the UK wasn’t until 21:10 this evening (I am writing this in the lounge as we wait for the flight) so we had a full day to kill. With Salt Lake City being only half an …
DAY 22 – Canyon Village, Yellowstone to Park City (384 miles driven, 2.56 miles walked) Tomorrow is the last day of the season in Yellowstone when all the food and lodging shuts down. The campgrounds and cabins are already closed and the places that were still open were clearly grearing up for the shut down. …
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DAY 21 – Canyon Village, Yellowstone (0 miles driven, 7.87 miles walked) America, what is the obsession with cinnamon and cheese (not together although there is bound to be a meal that has both)? Breakfast this morning was ordered from a school dinners type counter where one of the options was “French toast” along with …