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We boarded the train, first class reserved seats being part of the package. The train pulled out and we started chatting with the couple sitting in the adjacent seats.We were the objects of a certain degree of curiosity among our fellow travellers, having joined the group in Brussels rather than...

We’d been waiting for a long time. Our reservations were made back in the summer of 2015 and we were really looking forward to it. We’d been looking for a company that did a cruise taking in the whole of the navigable part of the Danube and we finally found one in Great Rail Journey’s catalogue...

And in the meantime Emil keeps his beady eyes on everyone.

I have recently finished "The First Men in Rome" by Colleen McCullough which I enjoyed so much that I bought the second volume in the series. Brilliant evocation of Rome at the height of its power and very readable. I shall finish the whole series, I have no doubt. When I retired I made a...

Yes, they're up to mischief. The other day Emil jumped up on to a shelf and knocked off a miniature of Gordon's gin. My son came down when he heard the noise and found them paddling in the gin and sipping it happily. He chased them off and cleared up the mess - meanwhile they went to their perch...

Thank you all for your kind comments. Our son is happier than we have seen him in a long time and his new lady is wonderful. We're going out for lunch with her on Sunday as our son is working (there is an auto festival in Luxembourg for the next couple of weeks and they sell a lot of cars during...

Our son, who lost his wife to a brain tumour three years ago has a new lady in his life. They have just presented us with two new grandkids. They are named Gottlieb and Emil and we think they're really cute.

Before we left next morning I entered Claire and Terry’s address into the TomTom and glanced briefly at the resulting map. I should have taken a longer look and saved us some considerable detours later on. Be that as it may, we set off with high hopes of making it to Aptos that evening, the...

Thank you both, and I wish you the very best for the coming year.

Back in 2008 when I was first diagnosed with T2 I was desperate for information on this condition so I spent long periods surfing the internet and finding bits of info here and bits there. Eventually I stumbled on this site and was quickly welcomed into the fold. I learnt so much in such a short...

Why, thank you Kat, that’s one of the nicest compliments I’ve ever received. But I have to be honest with you and say that I’m not famous for anything, I’m just a normal bloke with itchy feet. If I were a famous travel writer my travels would have been paid for, but as it is Jackie and I pay our...

Driving from Palm Springs to Death Valley was not the most inspiring of expeditions as the route was devoid of anything of interest. We passed huge numbers of wind turbines and once again only about half of them were turning. There wasn’t much wind so if the locals were relying on them for power...

Our son and daughter in law’s plans for the next day took us to Idyllwild, a village in the mountains south of Cathedral City. We left in mid-morning, and we thoroughly enjoyed the climb up the mountains (in their car, I hasten to add). There were plenty of turnouts where cars could pull over to...

Thank you Blondie, I'll try my hardest not to disappoint. Later on we sat down to dinner of bangers and mash (they had found real British bangers nearby) and after coffee our sons went for a dip in the pool. The three dogs, not to be left out, promptly joined them in the water. Being set in the...

I won’t bore you with all the details of our trip to California this year as it was mostly a time of revisiting our favourite haunts taking in, among others, San Juan Bautista, Monterey and its aquarium which had a special exhibit on octopus, squid and nautilus, Pacific Grove, Carmel by the Sea...

Yippee ki yae! I've just discovered the Google Earth icon when I clicked on the Launchpad icon. I tried it and I had a lovely view of London. It's not an easy life when you're a thicko around a computer. Sigh.:confused:

No, Blondie, haven't been stationary at all. Jackie and I celebrated our 54th wedding anniversary on 11 November at our favourite hotel in Wimereux. On the way back we stopped off in Ypres as we felt it was about time we did something definite after saying that we must visit Ypres every time we...

We were lucky to stumble over a fine restaurant situated in a renovated chateau, the Chateau de la Malene. Once again we were more than happy with the meal and the service. There weren’t too many customers but it was early in the season so I hope that they have a busy holiday period and a...

Just a few weeks after we returned from Namibia, our Californian friends Claire and Terry came to Europe on a trip during which they would celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Aside from meeting up with their two sons and their families they had rented the house in Villiers-sur-Yonne in...

We were off the plane before 5 a.m. and seemed to be the only people on the flight who were heading for Terminal 2. As the rest of the passengers from our flight headed for Immigration and then Baggage Reclaim we found ourselves alone in heading for the bus to transfer us to our next terminal...