Jayne and I enjoyed a short break in Bristol. More of that later, but for now I want to praise the hotel we stayed in – The Bristol Hotel. It is not cheap, in absolute terms, but for a two-night stay we were happy to fork out for a bit of comfort.  Having said that, […]
Entries Tagged as 'Holidays'
Home alone
August 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Right now I am rattling around the house on my own. Chas is still at work, Chrystal has gone out to a birthday barbecue and Jayne… she is in Ireland at the moment, after which she will be going to Spain and France before returning home. It is really strange. Last week we had our […]
Small world indeed
August 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Small world indeed · Life
Chrystal is still in touch via the interwebs with some of the people we met in Tunisia in February. Last night she was chatting to them and it turns out that some of them had just come back from Crete, where they were staying in the same resort and Jayne & I.  As it was […]
Bloody airports
August 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on Bloody airports · Life
I like being away, but getting there is becoming less bearable every time I do it. Â I used to take trips to the USA, Australia and the Far East in my stride but I am now finding even a four-hour flight to be about the limit. Â Part of this might be age, but there […]
Getting away from it all
August 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on Getting away from it all · Life
One of the undisputed pleasures of taking a holiday is ‘getting away from it all’. This can just mean a change of scenery and getting away from all the familiar places, but I also interpret it as getting away from a lot of life’s daily routine and away from the television, radio, internet, telephone, newspapers […]
Holidays 2009
August 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Expect a fair few holiday-related posts here over the next few days, even if they are only tangentially related to our hols. Jayne and I returned from Crete today – our first holiday on our own for ten years (not counting some long-weekend-type city breaks) and who know, there might even be some sister Jane […]
Phew what a scorcher
August 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
I am not a big fan of hot weather as such. Unlike some people that I have known I do believe that it can be too hot: we have all known somebody who would return from holdays and insist that their holiday was better because it was 45 degrees while yours was ‘only’ 30 degrees […]
Gratuitous holiday snaps
March 4th, 2009 · Comments Off on Gratuitous holiday snaps · Life
Just for the sake of it, here are a few holiday snaps from last month.  I took something like 350 photos during the week on the new camera. There were also about 100 pictures on the old compact before Charlie managed to lose it. About 150 of them are up on Flickr now. I can […]
Flying
March 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Last week’s holiday was the first time I flew anywhere since February 2004, which means the first time since all the new security restrictions were imposed. I had forgotten just what a joyless experience flying has become now.
Half-term holidays
February 23rd, 2009 · 5 Comments · Life
The absence of any new waffle here lately is because we have been away for half-term, spending a week in Tunisia. Quite exciting really because it was the first family holiday abroad for about six years I think and the first time I had been on a plane at all since going to Amsterdam exactly […]
