We check out at 11am, walk to the bus stop (literally two minutes) and our bus arrives precisely three minutes late. Not bad even so! There are even spare seats although Ian decides to stand in the luggage bay with our cases. The bus does an extra loop (because it is Sunday) so, after almost 10 minutes, we end up a few yards down the road from where we got on. It cant be helpedits the one way syst Read on...
The Shiloh United Methodist Church was organized in 1854 in a long forgotten log building. In 1870 they built a frame structure church. In 1912 they built an replacement church that burned down in 1973. (That church was abandoned in 1954.) The Shiloh United Methodist Church & Cemetery is located about five miles West of Alto, Texas on FM Hwy 752 in Cherokee County. The cemetery is owned and mainta Read on...
We passed through Liettres, a small village claiming to be the birthplace of cricket. There is a document from 1478 that describes events around a match played here. We kwamen door Liettres, een klein dorp dat claimt de geboorteplaats te zijn van cricket. Er is een document van 1478 dat een wedstrijd beschrijft die gespeeld werd.
Een kortere dag vandaag. Weer door de glooiende velden, maar redeli Read on...
Who would have thought it? I woke up expecting to walk on Day 78 but things did not go quite as expected. As always, because I dont sleep that well I woke at 6.15. Glenn quietly said Its raining Its been raining all night . Half expecting it to be fine enough to walk I got out of bed , walked over to the window peered out through half closed eyes and it was indeed wet on the patio. It was still Read on...
We had left La Fortuna and our little casita with no bathroom doors but lovely pool and friendly evening toads, when Gerardo picked us up once again. We drove on decent roads up up up – almost to the Poas Crater. There was one small landslide to avoid on the road – it covered our – its unusual to have more than one lane in each direction.
We stopped at the La Paz waterfall. It is now a fanc Read on...
Oh man, the weather forecast was for rain. That wasnt encouraging because typically there is only a 30% chance of seeing Denali on a good day (the highest peak in the Northern hemisphere at 20310ft ). We came out to a chilly morning, but no rain. Yea!!! We named our silver SUV Buck and took off for supplies then we headed south on Alaska 3. Buck bounced along the beautiful but wavey highway for a Read on...
Ich habe mit meinem Blog die Marke von 100.000 Wrtern und 10.000 Fotos berschritten. Das freut mich sehr. Heute frhstckte ich wieder gut und machte mich dann zu einem Spaziergang durch Toulouse auf. Es gibt hier eine Basilika, mindestens eine interessante Kirche, einen groen Platz und ein Konvent. All das sah ich zumindest von auen und fotografierte es natrlich auch. Danach ging ich ins Starbucks Read on...
I write this blog entry about my time in my second Scandinavian country visited this summer. After two weeks in Norway, having had an amazing time, enjoying stunning scenery at every turn, and happily encountering really friendly people, it was sadly time to leave. Whilst sad, I was also excited to start the next chapter of my summer travels. I was also quite ready to leave the in Arendal. While i Read on...
Today we visited Bergerac. We have stopped off here for an hour when driving past in the motorhome some years ago but never explored properly so a must for a day out today.
Stifling hot from the moment we got up and in fact temperature went to at least 42 degrees at one point which is over 100 F. A pleasant drive, 45 minutes or so and once in town we followed signs to a carpark. Delighted to find Read on...
Well I am back after a few days away from blogging. As we had a couple of days not doing activities apart from we hired electric bikes to go on a cycle ride with the rest of the group. We picked the bikes up and decided just to take them for a spin before the ride with the group. This was a great idea as going up a hill with a camber I fell off - so that put paid to me going out with the group - I Read on...