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There's a book you can buy on Amazon called "Type 2 - The First Year". I found it really helpful so you may find some good advice in there as well. Hope it helps.

After my cousin and his wife returned home we had a quiet stretch for a couple of weeks until Mike and Vickie, our friends from San Diego, arrived. We spent most the time getting the house in order, cleaning up and deciding on which places to take our guests to. At the moment Luxembourg City is...

What a friend we have in cheeses!

Yes, there’s been a bit of a hiatus in our wanderings lately but there’s a reason (or several) for this. Firstly, we had some not so good news regarding the leg pains Jackie’s been suffering for the last few months. She thought it would be another knee or hip replacement procedure, but after...

I read an interesting post on the Not a Lot of People Know That blog by Paul Homewood where Goldsmiths University in London has announced plans to ban the sale of beef at its campus canteens, as part of a "major drive" to become a carbon neutral organisation by 2026. Now a couple of points...

We found our seats which were, to our delight, smack in the middle of the second row. As is usual for these events we got into conversation with the people on either side of us so the time before the concert passed pleasantly. Then the sound system burst into life with “76 Trombones” and we knew...

The following morning saw us up earlyish, as we had to shower, have breakfast and leave the Novotel for the Kruisheren Hotel around 10. The new hotel had organised check in for 10 so we intended to arrive at the 10.30 mark. The roadworks that had made our journey through Maastricht so...

Barely a month had passed before we were on our way again - this time to Maastricht for our annual visit to one of André Rieu’s summer open air concerts in the Freedom Square. We were going up a day in advance to make sure that there were no holdups as can sometimes happen and also because we...

There were some excursions offered the next morning which was our last full day but they didn’t particularly appeal to us so we had a stroll around the area adjacent to the docking point, then spent a lazy morning, reading,chatting with fellow guests, drinking tea or coffee. In other words, we...

We weren’t due to dock in Kremenchug until 2.30 p.m. with the morning being taken up on board by a question and answer session with the Captain, followed by a cooking lesson on the Sundeck teaching us to prepare a Ukrainian dish called Vareniki. No, I’d never heard of them either but they’re...

We had a leisurely lunch before getting ready for the afternoon’s excursion to Khortitsa Island, the original home of the Cossacks. Once again the drive was not too long but did give us some views of the countryside, which laid out some splendid panoramas of the green and rolling landscape. We...

One tour that did appeal to us was a visit to the Shustov Cognac Museum with an added tasting that took place the next morning. Ukrainians are proud of this distillery’s products as it was so good it was permitted by the Cognac region in France to call itself cognac within the Ukraine (outside...

Apologies for replicating a post. I have now deleted it. What follows is the same post with an additional paragraph. Our first morning in Odessa was going to be a tour of the city, so we were to be found after breakfast standing on the quayside, cameras and hats at the ready, as we gathered...

We had checked in online the day before so all we had to do was the luggage tag printout. All Vienna airport is self service so you don’t have to speak to anyone, which is lacking the human contact and makes flying even more soulless that it has become of late. There are helpers moving around...

The day of departure for our Ukraine cruise dawned warm and sunny. A good omen, we were hoping, as the taxi pulled up outside our house. We were soon at the airport and going through security before adjourning for breakfast to the lounge. Then it was off to Heathrow’s Terminal 3 where, after...

It must have been a mental aberration I was experiencing when I decided to give Jackie a surprise by buying tickets for André Rieu’s concert in Vienna at the beginning of May. You might wonder why I wrote the previous sentence, but I had completely forgotten that as we were taking a river cruise...

When I was first diagnosed with T2 11 years ago I ordered a diabetic meal on my next flight. It had rice and other no-no's for me so I ate my way around those items that I felt wouldn't be good for me. Since then I choose from the onboard menu and pass over to my wife those items I should...

We said good night after arranging to meet up with them the next morning and collapsing into our bed. Next morning our son was off with his wife surveying likely places to live while our nieces turned up as scheduled and we set off for a walk round the town. As lunchtime approached we found...

Sorry, BP, but I don't find him mature at all. Remember at the beginning of his career in F1 with McClaren how the publicity went into overdrive, telling us that his father had worked 55 jobs simultaneously to help him get into karting and thus kickstart his career. There was Daddy Hamilton in...

I've been a great fan of F1 since Stirling Moss and Mike Hawthorn were duelling for the championship. When I worked in Germany I went down to Hockenheim to watch the Formula 2 warm up, but as I had to work at 3.30 pm I was obligated to leave part way through the morning. When I got to work I was...