My cousin Marion has achieved what nobody in my close family has yet managed – to stay married for forty years. AND she got married on April Fool’s Day – so how does that work? To celebrate this event, I drove from South Wales up north, stopping over at a Travelodge near Lancaster as IContinue reading “A wee trip to the Isle – April 2017”
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A Big Birthday and the Bucket List
It’s March 2017 and I am seventy. It’s the first birthday where I’ve felt my age – not that I feel old, but I’ve become conscious of age. Many decades ago a good friend got in a panic at turning thirty (I’d passed that a couple of years before) and I was totally confused. WhatContinue reading “A Big Birthday and the Bucket List”
Sept/Oct 2013 – Australia: I’m back!
How many times have I been to Australia? I guess I’d have to look at my passports to answer that one. But this is the second time this year – I left in January and now I’m back in September. By now I don’t feel like a tourist anymore, as there are certain things I’mContinue reading “Sept/Oct 2013 – Australia: I’m back!”
A little digression….
It’s pretty difficult to run for a bus when you’re lame….. When I planned this trip I did spare a thought for the challenges I might encounter travelling on my own with a knee that was due for surgery. When I had my first knee replacement done in February 2009 my surgeon had intended toContinue reading “A little digression….”
September 2013 – Auckland: City of Sails and Volcanoes
It’s a fascinating place, Auckland. Built right on top of a volcanic field of about 48 or 50 volcanoes, it’s one of the most undulating places I’ve been – apart from Barry. The – now extinct – volcanoes are obvious as you travel around the city, in the form of islands, hills, lagoons and strangeContinue reading “September 2013 – Auckland: City of Sails and Volcanoes”
September 2013 – New Zealand: land of the long white cloud!
I have these wonderful relatives in New Zealand who don’t mind getting up before dawn, driving to Auckland airport and fetching me into a warm, welcoming family. After Rob went to work and we dropped the girls off at school, Carley and I talked for hours and hours – almost till it was time toContinue reading “September 2013 – New Zealand: land of the long white cloud!”
September 2013 – Travelling on….a day out of my life.
I left Calgary on a Wednesday afternoon and, crossing the Rockies for the third time in just over a week, landed at Vancouver Airport again. With hindsight, if I’d planned the trip differently, I’d have had a few days there. I spent a very short time in the city in 2011 when I was overContinue reading “September 2013 – Travelling on….a day out of my life.”
September 2013 – My brother’s Wedding
So, the reason for my trip to Canada – my brother’s wedding. Although we’d spoken on the phone, I met the bride for the first time when I arrived in Calgary. My brother picked me up from the airport and we met up with his fiancee at a restaurant and had a bite to eatContinue reading “September 2013 – My brother’s Wedding”
Breathless in Calgary
I arrived in Calgary after a series of journeys: Day 1: got a lift from Eve (thank you!) from home to the railway station in Barry, caught the train to Cardiff, got a National Express coach to Heathrow, walked (limped) all over the place, trailing my suitcase, looking for the Hoppa bus to my hotelContinue reading “Breathless in Calgary”
Leaving NY…London…Home!
And it’s a wonder I got here at all. The lovely little redbrick hostel I stayed in in New York was on West 31st St, just on the corner of 5th Avenue. So when I trundled my bag and belongings across the street to the hotel which was the pickup point for the airport shuttle,Continue reading “Leaving NY…London…Home!”
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