Today is going to be a beautiful sunny day! Tom and I are later than usual starting off because we are not going too far – Palo Alto to be exact. Our mission today is to find an outfit for me to wear to my daughters wedding in five weeks time. For several weeks I have been searching for something suitable but without luck. Yesterday I spent several fruitless hours at the mall, but everything was Read on...
Although I made no notes, who could forget the fabulous shop of wood furniture, exotic carvings, and miscellaneous other things? Peggy was used to dealing with the vendor, so they went off in pursuit of whatever it was she wanted. I trailed through the aisles, marveling at the mainly Indian tables, chairs, chests and carved ornaments. Everything was almost jumbled together with space for walking a Read on...
The Colca Canyon is one of the most beautiful areas in Peru famed for its colourful and traditional towns and for its wildlife. There are over 100 species of birds including the giant Andean condor.
The Colca Canyon is also one of the deepest canyons in the world. It is, in fact, twice as deep as the Grand Canyon.
Another location I never dreamt I would be able to visit but with heygo virtual gu Read on...
During all of our travels over the last 20 years, we have always strived to do more than sightsee, and truly experience the culture of the places we are visiting. What better way to fully emersed in the local culture than by the food they eat? Today, was a day devoted to total emersion in the food of Mexico.
But first, alarms went off at 5:30, sounds early, but I had the best night of sleep since Read on...
I do not use the word ‘assault ‘in the meaning that suggests inflicting actual physical harm but rather the harm it might have done to us, the walkers, had we made it to the top.
The owners had been away at the Womens World Cricket in Wellington and one of their fathers had been looking after the place and watching over the renovations being done in three of the apartments.
We had been a bit Read on...
The day of lava. Not that we hadnt had some experience before, given that were walking on it and the whole place is created by it, but todays activities were specially focused (entirely unintentionally) on lava.
We had to reschedule our in of today for a geology lesson and a quest to find those bloody elusive basalt columns that the good people of Vik had apparently relocated in an attempt to fo Read on...
To many people on the UK mainland and beyond, the Shetland and Orkney Islands are somewhere up at the top of the map of Great Britain. In fact, the Shetland Isles (formerly known as Zetland) are a Archipelago located in the North Atlantic, as close to Norway as to Aberdeen. Shetland consists of a group of 100 islands with approximately 900 miles of coastline and a population of around 27,000. The Read on...
Wow, it was cold this morning. The sun did make an appearance for the last few miles but my hands and feet didnt thaw out. Today we went through Bolton by Bowland, Gisburn, Rimington, Downham and Worsten, across Four Lane Ends to the Golf Club and home.
Our virtual journey would be heading due south on the canal all day. Cycling on the canal all day is easy in that its flat and there is only one Read on...
Greetings, and hello again from London. I am writing at the end of a lovely holiday, the Thursday of which I decided to head out and explore again, and am now writing up my blog entry for another lovely local day trip from London.
This time I headed southwards, to the south coast, to a lovely little seaside town called Eastbourne, and some nearby star attractions: Beachy Head and the Seven Sist Read on...
I have never been so phenomenally gifted at anything to merit the epithet ‘master; however, I am, or have been, good at a number of things.
Lets start with sport. In my youth, I played football, rugby, cricket, tennis and table tennis. I hated rugby because it was too physical but enjoyed the rest. My best sports were tennis and table tennis. My greatest table tennis feat was winning the Mens S Read on...