Life's about experiences. These are mine.
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. The reason the boat stops …
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I was Helen-less again today which was really disappointing for both of us. It’s not much fun being ill and I personally don’t find holidaying on my own much fun either. However, there seemed little point not making the most of the day so I set off early for Athens on my own. The last …
We had only booked two official shore excursions and today was the second one – to Ephesus in Turkey (yes I know that this is supposed to be a cruise around the Greek isles but this one slipped in). Unlike the clear blue skies of the last few days today was overcast and threatening but …
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Today was the stop I had been most looking forward to and after such a big build up it was bound to fall short surely? Today was our trip to Santorini. If you have ever seen any pictures of the Greek islands they are bound to feature the white washed walls and blue domes of …
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For some reason we forgot that we were on holiday and booked up a 18 mile bike ride for today around the island of Crete. OK not around all of it obviously but it felt it at the time. So we met up with our over enthusiastic Austrian tour guide Alex at 8am where we …
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While we had spent the large part of yesterday aboard the boat it was actually moored all day at Corfu. The appeal of this particular cruise is that it stops at a different location every day with the exception of today which is spent all at sea. This meant that we had all day to …
Seems to have been a long time coming but we are finally away on what is our first ever two week holiday without the boys. One is now safely back at university and the other is left at home working. This year we had decided to take a cruise around the Greek islands staring in …
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Reading has the Reading festival. Leeds has the Leeds Festival (although to be fair that is just the Reading Festival on tour). Guildford has Guilfest and so it would be logical to assume that Weyfest is held in Weybridge. It’s not, it’s held in Tilford just outside of Farnham in Surrey and I have no …
Reading has been my home since 1988 when I moved here for my first job. In the intervening years there have been many changes and almost all have had a positive impact on the town (no, it’s still not a city). One of the great things about Reading is the river Thames and Kennet and …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHjssdNNzP0 So the above advert for Marmite is currently causing much angst in the UK at present as protesters have been complaining to the ASA that the advert trivialises the work of animal rights campaigners. The job of an advertising campaign is to get coverage and with a product that is already marketed as something …
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