Saturday, 29th October/Sunday, 30th October 2005 – Essen, Germany Friday was the usual routine once we made it to the airport – we headed straight to the seafood place for a meal, then walked to the gate just in time for our flight to Düsseldorf. At the other end it was a quick drive to…
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Travel 2005 – Valencia, Spain
Friday, 21st October/Saturday, 22nd October 2005 – Valencia Friday got off to a bad start with torrential rain all over Southern England, and us needing to get to Gatwick Airport to fly out to Spain. The 2005 Girls’ Weekend Away was scheduled to start as soon as we got to the airport. Lynne, Steffy and…
Travel 2005 – Portishead, Curry Rivel, Kingsbury Episcopi, Montacute
February 2005 – Portishead, Curry Rivel, Kingston Episcopi, Montacute The weekend was excellent, relaxing and interesting too. I picked Lynne up from the station after work and we set off for her parents’ place in Portishead (down near Bristol). Despite horrible traffic bulletins, and the fact that it’s always busy on a Friday night heading…
Travel 2004 – Macau, Day 3
Tuesday, 16th November 2004 – Macau, Day 3 We were living in interesting times, it seemed. Mind you, we weren’t the only ones. We weren’t able to meet up with Glyn till getting on for midnight on Monday, because… well, because of all sorts of things really. First off most of the race team people…
Travel 2004 – London, Hong Kong, Macau, Day 1
Sunday, 14th November 2004 – London, Hong Kong, Macau, Day 1 The best way to fly long distances is definitely with the aid of narcotics! Friday’s flight was only 11 and a half hours, which is even better really than the usual flying times. I can only presume there was a tailwind or something, but…
Travel/Food 2004 – London
Saturday 23rd/Sunday 24th October 2004 – London Well, the weekend was fun (if somewhat damp – torrential rain seemed determined to get us). The Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery was well worth the effort, and thoroughly enjoyable. I’d recommend it highly. There was a fine mix of different works, including some amazing ink drawings,…
Travel 2003 – Macau, Day 10
Monday, 17th November 2003 – Macau, Day 10 The day after the Grand Prix we frittered away pottering around the old town area and trying to achieve a few things. We started out at the post office where I wanted to buy the book of first day issues of Grand Prix-related stamps. This is a…
Travel 2003 – Macau, Day 8
Saturday, 15th November 2003 – Macau, Day 8 Saturday is motorbike day – and we’ve all agreed we’re not going out there while they are on the loose, so we arranged to have a late start, not bother with breakfast and then do lunch at the Clube Militar de Macau, which is a very splendid,…
Travel 2003 – Macau, Day 6
Thursday, 13th November 2003 – Macau, Day 6 The first day at the track was entertaining, and we wandered out to Melco to have a good look around and take lots of photos. We didn’t ask for photographers access, but we were given it anyway. The reason we didn’t bother asking is that in previous…
Travel 2003 – Macau, Day 5
Wednesday, 12th November 2003 – Macau, Day 5 Today was a very lazy, easy sort of day, preparatory to the first real race day tomorrow. The last things you want is to be too tired to function when there are F3 cars whizzing past your elbow at the Melco Hairpin. We decided to take Glyn…
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