I decided to spend my last full day in UAE visiting Abu Dhabi. It is about a 1.5 hour drive from Dubai. The roads were great and the traffic was pretty light. Abu Dhabi is the political capital and makes up 87% of the land area of UAE. Their population is 2.2 million. No surprise that oil is over 50% of their GDP followed by construction.
Our first stop was the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque.The mosqu Read on...
Another decent morning weatherwise. Our loop was through Chatburn to Sawley, Bolton by Bowland and round the radio mast and home via Sawley and Chatburn.
Our virtual journey would be leaving Pierrelatte, still on the ViaRhona, and staying close to the River Rhone. Soon after leaving Pierrelatte we pass through Bollene. We stayed here in 2009 in a hotel on the edge of town. We walked into town in Read on...
So after the night of France Passion, well not in the biblical sense if you read my last blog, we rise early and go to start the motorhome and guess what, the bleeding immobiliser would not let us start it - me thinking OMG and Mike thinking well maybe day 2 could be France Passion in the literal sense, ha ha. Anyway, we tried the other keys and wowee it started so thank goodness for this.
The na Read on...
Yes, it sure rained last night, judging from the huge and deep puddles, and was still doing so this am. So we got to poke around the room in the early hours – including doing some laundry (there are laundry rooms on every other floor of the building).
The locals made it sound like today would be dreadful, but it cleared off and, while the winds were still up from the wrong direction, it has be Read on...
Hello everyone, this was part of a 3 month trip through Europe. We started in Venice and ended up in London. We started these blogs after we had already been to Australia, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Canada. We couldnt upload photos very well (if at all) and mostly just wanted to be able to remember all of our trips. Everyone once in a while someone calls me and asks questions about our travels and Read on...
It was a late rise the morning after the rush trip back from Africa but the sleep was really needed. Back at the flat at Hammersmith again, we had a really civilised breakfast of porridge, followed by bacon and eggs. I rang Ruth and made arrangements for Joan and I to drop up to Hatfield in the afternoon to catch up with them again before I flew home. We reached Hatfield by and just relaxed and c Read on...
Summer has arrived. Suddenly and without warning. Went out in a as very cloudy and forecast said that was what we were getting. Came back at the endof the day with a very positive tan having spent the best part of the day in full sunshine under a glorious blue sky. After the last month in England feeling positively chilly this warmth is absolutely wonderful.
The day was pretty wonderful too. We Read on...
After a few unsuccessful attempts at trying to persuade the sat nav that there was such a place as Criccieth the only thing left to do was input it manually. Hopefully once in it would remember Criccieth for the future and recognise our attempts at saying the name . The sat nav took us back the way we . This surprised me as I could see the coast road up to Maentwrog which seemed a faster option an Read on...
Our Trip began at 4:45am. We were pretty much packed up the night before, so just needed to get ready, have some coffee, and leave for John and Dianes house. The limo was there promptly at 7:00, and the drive to Logan Airport was pretty quick. No traffic due to the holiday. Check in went without a hitch, with John getting his perfunctory pat down by TSA. Im starting to think he puts metal on his b Read on...
Isafjordur la mot thanh pho nho cua Iceland. Co 3,000 song tai day, 1 post office, 2 tram xang, 1 tiem ban banh mi. Day la vung dat co tu 50 trieu nam ve truoc. Isafjordur la capital cua Westfjords region va la thanh pho lon nhat mien can tay nhat cua Au Chau. O Day mat troi bien mat 3 thang va xuat hien lien tuc trong 3 thang khac.
7 nuoc nam tren Arctic circle la Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Nor Read on...