Madrid, Spain Sun 13th Our arrival into Madrid in the late afternoon of Saturday 12th was not without incident. I had pre-booked a shuttle transfer and, thought I was quite clever having navigated through the Spanish web site in doing so. We discovered on arrival that our booking was indeed in order but, we just… More

Paris, France We woke early to a chilly morning. A call from Janet Lagudi roused us all and it was lovely to hear a friendly voice. We are all a bit sick of the many rude Parisians considering they would be up a creek, not the Seine, without our tourist dollars. We set off for… More

Paris, France We all woke after a good night of rest looking forward to another day in Paris. We set off early to the Musee deCluny which is dedicated to art of the modern age. Rather odd as it is housed over one of the most ancient sites in Paris, a bath house, dating back… More

Paris, France Good morning all. Things are pretty normal here. Tom is up early playing his Nintendo DS and eating Coco Pops, I am writing this as I look out the French doors into our pretty courtyard and, Mark and Belle are still asleep. It is the morning of Thursday 10th May. Yesterday was a… More

Paris, France We woke to grey skies after a good night sleep of about 10 hours. A light rain then started to fall and we watched this as we had a slow morning of reading and writing. We headed out at about 10 to the street markets in the next street parallel to ours, Rue… More

Paris, France We arrived in Paris safely and early (7am). The flight with Cathay was a good one and I would recommend them (Mark thought the seats were too small but he was used to business class luxury). The food was just OK but the cabin staff was very courteous and willing to help at… More