Got back on Sunday evening from a weekend in Paris. Since my Dad was with us for a week, we thought it would be nice to do something a little different, and so he kindly offered to pay for us all to have a night in a hotel. We set off fairly early on Saturday morning and got back at about 9:30 Sunday evening.
Paris is a great city - seriously, if you’ve never been, you really are missing a rich cultural and historic experience. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s been five days since we got back from holiday and I’m only just getting round to posting an update. Sorry - but you know how hard it is to come back to reality after a holiday!
Actually, we had intended to come back on Thursday, but in the end decided to come back on Wednesday evening instead, for two main reasons: firstly, thunderstorms were forecast for Thursday morning and we didn’t fancy packing down the tent in pouring rain, and secondly, we had some noisy people near us on the campsite who saw to it that we didn’t get a decent night’s sleep after Sunday, so we were ready to come home to our comfortable bed! Read the rest of this entry »
It’s approaching 10pm, and we’re finally just about ready to go on our summer holiday. The car is loaded, the route is planned, essential work is finished…all that remains is to get in the car tomorrow morning and drive.
Speaking of loading the car, have you come across the universal law which dictates that no matter how much effort you make to keep luggage to a minimum, no matter how many things you can think of that you know you took last time and are not taking this time, your car will always be full to the gills when you go on holiday? Read the rest of this entry »
“Rob, where have you been? I’ve been looking at your blog every day for the last two weeks, but you seem to have dropped off the map! “, I hear you say. or something along those lines. Fear not - I’m still here. I wasn’t planning on taking a blogging break - it just kind of happened on its own. Read the rest of this entry »