While some of us slept in, I was up at 6am doing laundry. We didnt have cell service or WiFi so I couldnt work on my blog. By the time my laundry was finished everyone else was up, had breakfast, and was ready to check outYosemite. Bug problem.no maps. Our host had a few small copied maps that were difficult to read but they werent very helpful. We had no clue where to go. AND the vacation rental Read on...
Now a full week in to our trip, we really needed rest so we slept until 10:00. This was a good day to choose to sleep in as it was a full day of walking tour with no tickets or timed entry. After we did get up and ready for the day we took a cab to the Crown Liquor Saloon, perhaps the most famous pub in Belfast. The Crown is actually owned by the National Trust of UK (official conservation organiz Read on...
Well, Hello Again. After about 5 months of no blog I feel it is time to outline some big changes in our life. There have been some exciting happenings over the last half year.
But at the present time the most exciting news is that we are going to leave NZ for a few weeks to travel to Norway once again, to see our family after not being able to travel since October 2019 due to Govid. So excited to Read on...
Walking has a bit of a bore. It was fine when I started walking around our Derbyshire village home as it was a novelty. I remember enjoying walking as a change to swimming . Investigating the village I had lived in and never entirely walked around . Cul de sacs, long lanes, the ponds, the lakes and the countryside . There were places I had never ventured down and I remember apart from my aching fe Read on...
Nearly a year !!!!!! It has been nearly a year since that eeejit Bojo closed down the country due to Covid . Yes Sion you are quite right . We are creeping onwards to a full year of lockdown with all those shops closed and worse still no holidays . No haircut either . But I am not sure you really should call the Prime Minister an eeejit . I shall call him what I like if I want to call hm an ee... Read on...
Le temps est encore lgrement couvert ce matin. Il fait encore chaud, mais pour la premire fois depuis une semaine la temprature est en dessous de trente.Aprs ntre dsormais traditionnel petit djeuner fait de caf, donuts et jus dorange, on prend la direction du parc de Canyonlands. Cest lautre grand parc proche de Moab. Il est environ cinquante kilomtres. il faut emprunter la highway 191, puis pren Read on...
Nachdem ich gestern noch in der Ville Nouvelle etwas zum Abendessen bekam und abends noch den Fuballspielern vor dem Hotel von meinem netten Balkon aus zusah, schlief ich letzte Nacht etwas besser, als in der ersten. Man hrt hier den Muezzin Ruf ber den Lautsprecher, aber das war kein groes Problem.
Nachdem Frhstck, wo ich wieder den trkischen Honig oder Nougat - ich wei leider nicht, was das fr Read on...
Today, lets learn about some of our favorite adult beverages, kind of my version of a public service announcrment. India Pale Ales — better known as IPAs — were not brewed in India. In fact, back when this kind of beer was invented in the 1700s, brewers didnt have a good way to brew beer in such a hot climate. Beer had to be imported instead, and that meant that London brewers needed up with s Read on...
Very Spring like this morning when the sun was shining and you were sheltered from the wind and then Arctic like when into the very strong wind! Our route was to Whalley via Mitton, Billington, Wiswell, Pendleton, Barriw, Whalley and home via Mitton.
Our virtual journey would be leaving Narbonne and starting our journey westwards. The start of our day is flat through vine yards with Chateau sat o Read on...
One thinks of a pedigree as a sanctioned stamp of good breeding. Thoroughbred racehorses. Edwardian landed gentry. books? These arent just but specimens from the Golden Age of including some purchased in a U.S. concentration camp. book pedigree is the rare designation applied to a collection of vintage material gathered by a single collector at the time of publishing. There are currently 61 pedig Read on...