We had a lovely breakfast then joined the bus after filling our bottles with water. The Mirage had a filling station with sparkling, cold or warm water. I filled my bottle with sparkling which caused much laughter when I opened it later and it went pop!! I was asked if I had champagne in it. Unfortunately NO.
Our first stop was the Mossman Gorge Visitor Centre and were taken on a dreamtime gorge Read on...
We left for Ronda late in the morning, intending to stop at Zahara de la Sierra for a while first. At about 11:30am, we saw Zahara, across a large lake, clinging to a hillside. Spanish towns are quite often built on hillsides, but this one on a hill and with a large lake at the bottom. We pulled over on the other side of the bridge to take some photos, then again just after we reached the foot of Read on...
August 4, 2018. Koblenz, Germany. As we approached Koblenz cruising down the Rhine past the impressive Stolzenfels Castle and through beautiful hilly scenery, a bridge came into sight, above which sits the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress. We sailed around the Memorial of German Unity and up the Moselle River to dock. After a brief walking tour we were bused to a vineyard in the nearby Mosel Valley then r Read on...
Shopping can be exhausting, and nothing recharges you faster than a buttery pastry with a heavenly cup of coffee. Le Panier serves authentic French ptisserie, fresh bread, and offerings like sandwiches and feuillets, which are puff pastries with savory fillings like cheese, chicken, vegetables, or mushrooms. Dont let long lines deter you — Le Panier is busy because its one of the best bakeries i Read on...
I hired Khun Thorh (Khun literally means person and it is prefix in Thailand; Thorh is his given nickname and it is the closest transliteration I can make of his name) to bring me to and from the historical park in this samlor (pedicab powered by a motorbike) on both days. We fell into silence after I exhausted his English vocabulary and he exhausted my Thai.
Thailand was one of the easiest spe Read on...
(I have now finished the group tour but had no time to write a blog & no signal to send it anyway so I am trying to bring them up to date in the next few days, so apologies if thick & fast! On the other hand, they may not go at all, so fingers crossed)
Daniel, the wildlife expert ( mainly herpetology, the little things), and Harry, (Hery), the Malagasy tour guide/director met me at the airport. T Read on...
Seldom do I get so excited about a place that I dont want back home, but Laramie, Wyoming, certainly that. While I was walking down Grand Avenue on Monday, I stumbled across some houses for rent and seriously considered calling the numbers listed, just to see what kind of prices I could expect. Simply put, Laramie has everything I could ask for in a place to live, including a lack of crowds. This Read on...
Villa Schmidt. Mansion built in 1914 on the foundations of the Kehl fortress constructed by Vauban in 1683. It was the home of the Schmidt family who owned a cellulose processing plant in Kehl. Between 1945 and 1992 Villa Schmidt housed the headquarters of the French military administration. Adaptive reuse as a restaurant and events centre. 12. DSC_0888
After returning form Strasbourg, there was Read on...
I had a remarkably good final nights sleep at the Rangoon YMCA, given that I was assigned the table for the night. We spent the morning sending the last of our Burma postcards and visiting the markets. I missed out on sending a birthday telegram to Dad – they wanted 25 Kyat for that pleasure, which was over budget. Sorry, Dad! We had some minor hassles getting to the airport, but at least when Read on...
The British seaside is a national institution: home of fish and chips, & buckets and spades & Amusement arcades.
The towns name is thought to derive from a mixture of Saxon and Latin words. Weston probably started out as west tun, meaning the west settlement. The words super and from the Latin for on the sea.
Ian is a great story teller and so full of information which he delivered brilliantly a Read on...