Life's about experiences. These are mine.
For many years we have been coming to Oxford and wandered past the Bodleian Library, an not overly attractive building in my opinion, but had never been inside. I discovered that they ran guided tours around the library of 30, 60 and 90 minute durations and we had booked on the hour long tour. There’s …
It has only been ten days since our last leg of the Thames Path but the weather is noticeably colder now and coats and hats were the order of the day. The travel involved to get to and from the start and end points is also getting increasingly more convoluted which perhaps indicates that we …
Continue reading “Thames Path – Day Four – Putney Bridge to Richmond”
Slightly delayed due to train strikes earlier in the week today we were back on the Thames Path for the next leg. Starting from where we left off last time at Westminster heading on to Putney Bridge some eight miles further upstream. Where are all the people? I have written about this phenomenon before but …
Continue reading “Thames Path – Day Three – The London Eye to Putney Bridge”
The last day of our cruise and we were back in our starting port of Palma. We’d arrived so late in the evening last week we hadn’t had an opportunity to explore before but intended to put that right today. There is a magnificent looking cathedral in Palma and we intended to go there and …
Continue reading “Spain 2023 – Day Seven – Palma de Mallorca”
As time goes on and remember that I have been doing this for over 14 years, it gets increasingly difficult to find new and interesting things to say about places, particularly when they are as small as Cartagena. Therefore, today I am going to talk about pavements. Marbelous Most places we visit have pretty boring …
The Costa-del-sol gets a bad wrap so visiting Malaga made me wonder just what it would be like but I needn’t have worried as, spoiler alert, it was beautiful. We didn’t know much about the town other than it was the birth place of Picasso and had a museum dedicated to him here. We got …
Continue reading “Spain 2023 – Day Five – Malaga (Definitely Spain)”
I’ve never been to Gibraltar before but many of our friends have and the universal feeling seems to be one of the ”meh” so I was interested to find out for myself. A Little Slice of Home It was baking in Gib and we had a long walk to the start of the town. We …
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The boat (or is it a ship?) is today making its only stop outside of Spain, well, unless you consider Gibraltar to not be in Spain, in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. Looking back at these blog entries there is no mention of Lisbon which means that the last time we came here must have …
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After spending all-day yesterday trapped on the boat (or “at sea” as Tui prefer to call it) I was glad to get off today and back onto terra firma. The Hidden Amphitheater Port of call today was Cadiz, somewhere that we haven’t been before so I was looking forward to paying it a visit. After …
We went on our first cruise to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary some 23 years ago now. We didn’t consider ourselves to be natural cruisers but the ship was going places we wanted to go, stopping somewhere new every day. We’d treat it like a floating hotel we said and we did. But we enjoyed …