Friday 14th – Saturday 15th September 2018. Our flight from Sydney left at 10.15 am on Friday 14th and we made it to Amsterdam at around 7 am on Saturday 15th. That might seem fairly quick to you but it was a rather drawn out affair for us due to the 6 hour layover in… More
Mark, myself, Ali, Brett, Annabelle and Matt visited Mudgee for a weekend catch up and some wine tasting. We headed up on the Friday (10th August) and the boys played golf on the Saturday morning before we all ventured out in style for 4 hours of wine tasting. This post records the ‘do’s and some… More
Wednesday 18th July Mark and I went to the gym this morning instead of walking the beach. Mark started to feel a bit poorly after breakfast though so the rest of the day for him was just spent lying by the pool and close to a toilet:-(
Sunday 15th July 2018 This is just a brief update of activities for our week in Bali to celebrate Matt’s 30th birthday. It will be rather repetitive with each day being something like: breakfast, pool time and reading, spa treatment, sunset drinks followed by dinner…repeat!
Friday 22nd June. It was lovely to see the sun again for our last full day in Falmouth, Mark had booked in for a morning bike ride with Tony, found through a contact from the Devon Cycle Club, I was going to walk and then we planned to use the afternoon to go for a… More
Thursday June 21st: Happy Solstice Day! For the last two mornings we had woken to grey skies and rather bleak weather so it was with some joy we woke to see the sun shining for the Summer Solstice. Mark’s snoring had me awake even earlier than usual and so it looks like I will be… More
Wednesday 20th June. We had a slow start to the day with a morning walk out to the beach district of Falmouth before heading out at midday to Pendennis Castle. Pendennis Castle is another fortification commissioned by King Henry VIII following his split from the Catholic Church. Protection was wanted against any reprisals from Catholic… More
6th June 2018: Isle of Wight (IoW) day. It was an early start, 5:30 am from Hastings, for my Isle of Wight bike ride day. This involved a drive to Portsmouth and then a Ferry to the IoW and I arrived in time to catch the 8:00 am ferry. Parking was available opposite the ferry and, given it was mid… More
Monday 18th June Monday morning was overcast, but at least the wind and drizzle had gone, so I was able to get out for another walk along the Hoe. Mark had been quite chilled during our cannon tour, and was feeling rather poorly as a result, so took the extra hour to sleep.
Sunday 17th June. It was overcast on our final morning in Torquay but we got a walk in before setting off for Plymouth. Plymouth is only an hour from Torquay so we detoured via Salcombe along the way. What a pretty part of the world this is. Salcombe is a small seaside town in south… More