Author Archives: Col

LAKES DISTRICT – SUFFOLK – KENT – LONDON The past week has seen us spend 4 days in the LAKES DISTRICT and then move on to the SUFFOLK region north of London. We then went to Tumbridge Wells in KENT … Continue reading →

WALES -BRECON BEACON NATIONAL PARK & SNOWDONIA NATIONAL PARK, ENGLAND – PEAK DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK From the Cotswolds we headed to Wales and Brecon Beacon National Park then on to Snowdonia National Park.  From there we went back to England and … Continue reading →

DARTMOOR – EXMOOR – BATH – BRISTOL – COTSWOLDS So you can see we have covered a lot in the past weeck and some amazing scenery and fantastic English towns and villages.  Our aim this trip has been to spend … Continue reading →

From Oxford we travelled straight to Mevagissey, a beautiful fishing village on the south coast of Cornwal.  We had an apartment overlooking the water for a week and used it as our base to see a few parts of Cornwall. … Continue reading →

WINDSOR – MARLOW – OXFORD Despite our prebooked  driver failing to arrive at our Paris hotel at 4:00am, we made it to the airport with the help of UBER.  2 minutes to get the UBER car and 22 minutes later we … Continue reading →

What a fabulous 4 days we had in Zurich with our Swiss friends Susy and Chris who live in Freinbach, a lovely town on Lake Zurich, about 30km east of Zurich. Below are some of my photos from those few days. … Continue reading →

One of the highlights of our trip was to be a river cruise from Budapest to Bucharest – and it did not disappoint.  We sailed with Avalon Cruises aboard the ‘Luminary’. Mainly great weather, fantastic food and terrific new friends … Continue reading →

A beautiful city with a very confronting history of opression, pain, suffering and death over many years of wars and occupation only ending in 1989 when the Russian Red Army left. Following are just a few photos from this amazing … Continue reading →

  Our Airbus A380-800 awaits us at Tullamarine Love Dubai except for the heat. A city of contrasts.  There are the old parts of Dubai and now huge clean ultra modern parts to the city with no graffiti.  Almost everyone … Continue reading →