Wednesday 18th March, 2026 – Athens Having spent a lot of time looking at the Acropolis, it was now time to get up close with the cradle of democracy. We had not booked in advance, assuming (correctly as it turned out) that it would be fine to just fetch up and buy tickets on the…
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Travel 2026 – Athens, Greece – Day 2
Tuesday 17th March, 2026 – Athens After a fairly late night, we still managed to drag ourselves awake early enough to get breakfast in the Club Intercontinental where we enjoyed the view over to the Acropolis, Phillipapos Hill, and Lycabetus Hill. The weather looked OK, perhaps a tad greyer than we might have wanted, but…
Travel 2026 – Athens, Greece – Days 0 and 1
Sunday 15th – Monday 16th March, 2026 – Home to Athens So, Athens, finally – a trip we had intended to take in 2020 (and we all know how that panned out) has been completed and was generally fabulous. Back sometime in 2025 British Airways were doing one of their periodic sales of “holidays” which…
Travel 2024 – North Coast 500 – Day 14/Day 15 (Shieldaig to Hawnby, Hawnby to Home)
Friday 11th/Saturday 12th October, 2024 – Sheildaig, Aviemore, Hawnby, Home Distance driven: 429.0 miles/177.0 milesTime at the wheel: 7 hours 38 minutes/3 hours 15 minutesHeiland coos spotted: 0 (but then we hardly expected to) And so we left Scotland and completed the leg of the NC500 to Inverness, skimming by the edge of the city….
Travel 2024 – North Coast 500 – Day 13 (Gairloch to Shieldaig)
Thursday 10th October, 2024 – Gairloch, Kinlochewe, Lochcarron, Strome Ferry, Applecross, Sheildaig Distance driven: 110.0 milesTime at the wheel: 3 hours 43 minutesHeiland coos spotted: 0 After the storms that rolled through overnight, the temperature had dropped significantly and there was snow visible on the higher ground. The weather was still wildly variable, with sudden…
Travel 2024 – North Coast 500 – Day 12 (Around Gairloch)
Wednesday 9th October, 2024 – Gairloch, Inverewe, Badachro Distance driven: 36.0 milesTime at the wheel: 1 hour 14 minutesHeiland coos spotted: 0 After the previous day, Wednesday started out looking like it would be an easy day without much in the way of driving. The initial plan was to go a few miles in one…
Travel 2024 – North Coast 500 – Day 6 (Around Dornoch)
Thursday 3rd October, 2024 – Inverness, Cromarty, Udale Bay, Portmahomack Distance driven: 126.0 milesTime at the wheel: 2 hours 53 minutesHeiland coos spotted: 0 (I hope they’re not turning into the equivalent of the moose on our Finland trip in 2016) We made an early start because we needed to be in Cromarty by 9:45…
Travel 2024 – North Coast 500 – Day 5 (Inverness to Dornoch)Â
Wednesday 2nd October, 2024 – Inverness, Fortrose, Chanonry Point, Rosemarkie, Cromarty, Dornoch Distance driven: 78.0 milesTime at the wheel: 1 hour 50 minutesHeiland coos spotted: 0 We were back on a highish mileage day, made more so because the Cromarty-Nigg ferry does not run after September 30th so we’d missed it by a day, a…
Travel 2019 – Hamburg, Day 5
Monday, 2nd December 2019 – Hamburg Feeling a lot better than I had on Sunday, we had breakfast (I still wasn’t risking anything more solid than yogurt, followed by scrambled eggs) and then we packed up our bags, checked out of our room, and left our luggage with the hotel while we headed off to…
Travel 2019 – Hamburg, Day 4
Sunday, 1st December 2019 – Hamburg Feeling fragile but at least vaguely human, I was back up and about on Sunday, starting with a cautious breakfast of plain yogurt with a spoonful of sugar, followed by a small portion of scrambled eggs, with a large mug of mint tea to settle it all down. Outside…
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