Three nights ago at around 9pm, just one km up the the road from where I stay, a tourist bus driving in the rain, and containing 17 people, missed a corner on the steep down from Jalori Pass (failed brakes and failure to use gears for braking on a wet dark road in unrelentless rain) and fell into the ravine below. Seven people died there and then, a few since and seven survived with various seriou Read on...
As directed by ‘Walking in London by Peter Aylmer, we began the walk from Camden Town station. Following signposts, we walked through bustling high street with a number of independent shops selling interesting looking items.
We entered Regent Park from northeast gate and passed chestnut lined Broad walk and head for Queen Marys gardens. Roses were not out yet, but there were lot of flowers bloo Read on...
If our photos are anything to go by, we must have spent most of this time bird watching, so I hope someone else was keeping watch over our two toddler offspring. Neither Issy nor I can claim to be avid birdwatchers, who I always associated with whistles and funny hats, so I suspect we may have been more intent on testing out our photography skills than having any real interest in potential feather Read on...
My Spot:No offense to Sheldon of Big Bang Theory; BUT this is MY SPOT! Many days if warm, I walk down hill minutes and hang out in afternoon sun here on the cliffs east end of Albufeira or I go below to the beach area for an hour or two.
New AirBnb: See the pics on my new AirBNB next door to the one I had. Nice balcony view! Much smaller place and queen bed in the living room but I can handle th Read on...
It takes only 15 milliseconds for the human body to register a taste. According to Dr. Hildegarde Heymann, at the University of California at Davis, taste perception is swift because the tongue and mouth (assisted by the nose) are the bodys primary defenses against poison. For our four main senses: taste takes: 1.5 to 4.0 milliseconds, touch: 2.4 to 8.9 milliseconds, hearing: 13 to 22 milliseconds Read on...
So we started our day with a breakfast of Yorkshire crumpets and bacon. Not so sure what was supposed to be special about those crumpets - nothing to write home about, I think they just put egg over them and deep fry them. We shall not be going back for those again (although of course, we pretended they were really nice).
Had a bag malfunction when the zip on my bag bust open and was unfixable. M Read on...
I cant believe it is our last full day on the bikesthe week has just flown past and it is always sad to be almost at the end. This mornings ride had two options, 20 miles or 31 miles. Both ending in Mouries, where we were scheduled for lunch and for those doing the short option, an olive mill tour.
We were all together until a certain point where the long riders would turn off, but up till that p Read on...
After yesterdays weather fun we were hoping for something more stable weather wise, and on the whole that is what weve had over these two days, albeit at a noticeable cooler temperature than weve had over the last week or more.
For the first time on the trip the room Paul had with breakfast. A delicious selection, cold though of course, of cereals & fruit, local skyr yoghurt, smoked trout, lamb p Read on...
Carnival Sunshine slipped into Grand Turk early in the morning, the last of our ports of call for this cruise.
At Grand Turk, we had booked Carnivals Historical Homes, Town & Museum Tour shore excursion. The tour promised to include Cockburn Town and the Grand Turk Lighthouse. The guide met us and other travelers in the cruise terminal area and soon we were on the minibus. The same shore excursio Read on...
Slept much better and woke with eyes still slightly swollen but not painful and with only light rain. After breakfast we headed back into the Slovak Paradise National Parkto hike along the Such Bel Gorge, one of the longest and most popular canyons in the park. The previous rain meant the stream was in full flow so we had to trek through water, climb over fallen trees and ascend ladders - the path Read on...