UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | Views [174] | Comments [1]
Yesterday we decided to go back to Snape where there is a lovely village around the Snape Maltings concert hall. We beat a regular track between Aldeburgh and Snape, but had not previously looked around the Maltings area. There is the most amazing antique ... Read more >
ESTONIA | Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 17 Jun 2013 | Views [175] | Comments [1]
Today we set off on a lovely walk along the beach from Aldeburgh to Thorpeness (about 4 Kilometres north of Aldeburgh, along the coast). Today the weather was much warmer ( at least during the morning it was). We even had our sun hats on! ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 16 Jun 2013 | Views [177] | Comments [1]
14 June - Yesterday, we set off on the coach to the Snape Maltings concert hall for another concert. The Snape Maltings is about 15 minutes from Aldeburgh. The Maltings used to be a malt house which was built by Newson Garrett in the mid nineteenth century, ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 15 Jun 2013 | Views [146]
Today, Rob did a bit of financial housekeeping on the netbook while I wandered up and down the high Street in Aldeburgh, to look at the shops.
In the evening we went off to the Snape Maltings concert hall again, to a program ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 13 Jun 2013 | Views [129] | Comments [1]
Day 11 - Yesterday, we set off to Snape on the bus, to a quaint little car hire place, and hired a car for the day (we preordered a car for three separate days while we are here). The car didn't come with a Suffolk map or sat nav, so fortunately ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 11 Jun 2013 | Views [164] | Comments [1]
Last night, Rob and I went to the Snape Maltings concert hall to hear a concert version of Benjamin Britten’s opera, Peter Grimes. The performance was absolutely fantastic. It was semi staged but the soloists were not in costume. They will be performing ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 10 Jun 2013 | Views [174] | Comments [1]
This morning was a special festival service at the local parish church. The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby presided over the service and gave the sermon. The boys from the King's College Cambridge choir, conducted by Stephen Cleobury, ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 9 Jun 2013 | Views [215] | Comments [1]
Day 6. We started the day by purchasing some train tickets that we need for trips we are taking in a couple of weeks. We bought them from the ticket office in Ipswich, and the bloke who was serving us was curious about why we came to Ipswich. When we ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 7 Jun 2013 | Views [237] | Comments [1]
Day 4. This morning we woke quite early, after our long day yesterday. After a leisurely breakfast in the hotel, we went just across the road from the hotel to catch a bus back to Heathrow, where we caught a coach to Ipswich. The coach stopped ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 5 Jun 2013 | Views [138] | Comments [1]
We continued our long commute over to the other side of the world! Today's flight was very good. This time we were sitting downstairs in the A380 as upstairs is all business class. We were not far from the first class suites.
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SINGAPORE | Tuesday, 4 Jun 2013 | Views [208] | Comments [2]
Forgot to say earlier, that when we were going through security this morning, Rob disappeared, leaving me bemused about where he had got to (he has a habit of disappearing at inappropriate times at home!) I gathered up all our stuff as it emerged ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 3 Jun 2013 | Views [151]
Last night we did battle with the wind and the rain while we looked for dinner options. We settled on Chinese food, as we needed to take shelter from the elements as fast as possible! It was easier than looking around for Thai.
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AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 2 Jun 2013 | Views [151] | Comments [2]
We were booked on a bus to Sydney, leaving from the Jolimont Centre in Civic. Rather than getting up early and having a last minute rush into town, we decided to stay at the Novotel on Saturday night so we could relax over a leisurely ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 1 Jun 2013 | Views [130]
Our holiday officially starts tomorrow! Today has been spent doing the last minute domestic things, plus a bit of relaxing. Tomorrow we head up to Sydney!
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