United Kingdom
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Friday, 9 Jun 2017 | Views [390]
After driving along the extraordinarily scenic west side of Loch Ness on our way to Fort William, we took a detour to a place named Glenfinnan to view the Glenfinnan Viaduct. This particular viaduct has been made famous by the Harry Potter films. As ... Read more >
Wednesday, 7 Jun 2017 | Views [448]
I discovered the North Coast 500 route quite by accident whilst scouring the internet for places to visit and roads to travel in the north of Scotland.
The route takes you on a clockwise circuit of north Scotland, commencing and finishing in Inverness.... Read more >
Sunday, 4 Jun 2017 | Views [349]
I would have liked to have titled this story "Blue Blue Skye" but given the brooding dark clouds and bursts of rain, it didn't seem quite right.
Allow me to tell you that this place is breathtakingly beautiful.
Unfortunately, it seems that the ... Read more >
Saturday, 3 Jun 2017 | Views [383]
Rather than drive around Loch Ness, we decided to take a cruise for about an hour. Well worth it as the commentary on the boat was very informative. I can also tell you that a south south west wind blowing down the Loch has one reaching for thick coats.... Read more >
Saturday, 3 Jun 2017 | Views [405]
This part of our journey is designated as the castle exploration phase. Potentially three days of inspecting some of Scotland's myriad castles.
We travelled to the car rental headquarters to pick up our car, only to discover that our special ... Read more >
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 | Views [360]
Is it a strange title? I suppose so, but why l titled this story as such will become evident soon enough.
Like many European cities, Edinburgh had an old town and a more modern, larger part.
The city is dominated by the castle which can be seen ... Read more >
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 | Views [436]
Every trip starts with an expectation of adventure. Perhaps adventure is not an appropriate description of the circumstances that befell us on this occasion.
As many would be aware, British Airways had an IT malfunction that saw BA flights cancelled ... Read more >
Tuesday, 3 Jun 2014 | Views [241] | Comments [1]
Saturday 31 May to Monday 2 June 2014
Arrived in London at 4.30 pm on Saturday 31 May after leaving Melbourne at midnight on the same day. Arriving at your destination more than 24 hours after you left, but arriving only 16 hours later by the clock ... Read more >
Tuesday, 11 Sep 2012 | Views [407]
Friday 7 September was a lay day for basketball. This meant that in theory, we had a day free to explore London. It didn’t happen.......
We had our best night’s sleep for the trip so far and were, well, just a little late in getting ... Read more >
Friday, 7 Sep 2012 | Views [667]
I write this post on the morning of Friday 7 Sept after a
day of high and lows yesterday.
On Thursday, we spent a few hours in the morning at Camden Market – the girls
seemed to have a good time, as one would expect when they are let loose in ... Read more >
Friday, 7 Sep 2012 | Views [683]
Saturday September 1 - Wednesday September 5 Our latest adventure started with an overnight stay in Kuala
Lumpur in an attempt to be in a somewhat reasonable condition when we arrived
in London, primarily because as soon as we arrived at our hotel, ... Read more >
Sunday, 25 Jul 2010 | Views [665]
Saturday 24 July 2010 We took the Eurostar chunnel train to Lille and then another train to Amiens, which is where we stayed the night. After booking into the hotel, we travelled to Villers-Bretoneux to have a look at the Australain war cemetery located ... Read more >
Saturday, 24 Jul 2010 | Views [363]
Friday 23 July 2010 This day of the trip was set aside for just one purpose - a shopping trip to Harrods, promised to Gloria, as we did not do it the last time we were in London. Male family members (or any males living on this planet) please take ... Read more >
Friday, 23 Jul 2010 | Views [720] | Comments [1]
Sunday 18 th to Thursday 22 nd July 2010. We were to head to Cornwall and first night’s accommodation was booked at a place named Saltash, to the west of Plymouth. Did we go directly there or did we take the Treseder route? We did not arrive ... Read more >
Saturday, 17 Jul 2010 | Views [553] | Comments [1]
14 -17 July 2010 – Wednesday to Saturday Oops – the title is wrong – just a typo. It should have read The Booze in Birmingham. For Gloria and Eily anyway. Our time in Birmingham started with a flight from Milano on an aircraft operated ... Read more >
Tuesday, 26 Aug 2008 | Views [445] | Comments [4]
A midnight takeoff for the trip of a lifetime is not to be recommended. Nobody slept between Melbourne & Singapore and when we arrived there were three very tired souls. After some family disputes that centered around whether we could leave the ... Read more >
