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 2025 – Cunard Queen Anne – Days 1, 2 and 3 (Southampton and at Sea)
Friday 26th – Sunday 28th September, 2025 – Southampton to Ã…lesund Despite not being wholly convinced by the whole “let’s go on a cruise” hype, we found ourselves handing over our car to the parking people at Southampton, dropping our luggage off with the baggage handlers, and embarking on Cunard‘s newest ship, Queen Anne, ready…
Travel/Food 2023 – Yorkshire
Saturday 7th/Sunday 8th October, 2023 – Wombleton, Marton, Nunnington Back in the UK, and we made a weekend trip to Yorkshire complete with an overnight stay. The impetus behind the trip was to see our friends Richard and Lindsey and to try out their new culinary venture, the Plough Inn, in the delightfully named village…
Travel 2023 – Cunard Queen Mary 2 – Day 5 (Southampton)
Friday, 22nd September 2023 Today was home day. On advice from J and J we decided to breakfast at 8am, despite being told our disembarkation time was 8:30. Theirs was “any time up to 09:50” so clearly no one was going to throw us off ahead of that sort of time. A leisurely breakfast would…
Travel 2023 – Cunard Queen Mary 2 – Day 4 (At Sea)
Thursday, 21st September 2023 I started the day with a run round Deck 7, which was quite busy at 08:00 – probably because you’re not allowed to run before that (there are cabins underneath and it would be unfair to subject sleeping people to the sound of pounding feet), and after breakfast finishes lots of…
Travel 2023 – Cunard Queen Mary 2 – Day 3 (Hamburg)
Wednesday, 20th September 2023 After getting an early night, we were rudely awakened by an announcement over the ship’s tannoy system at 06:45. It was our Captain informing us that we were not in Hamburg as planned. We weren’t even in the River Elbe on the approach to Hamburg. Bad weather overnight had seen the…
Travel 2023 – Cunard Queen Mary 2 – Day 2 (At Sea)
Tuesday, 19th September 2023 As newbies to cruises, this was likely to be the day when we’d get a better idea of whether it was for us or not. The Queen Mary 2 was still somewhere in the English Channel and would be very slowly heading towards the North Sea and then Hamburg, so we…
Travel 2023 – Cunard Queen Mary 2 – Day 1 (Southampton)
Monday, 18th September 2023 We’d never been on a cruise of any sort before, assuming you don’t count long ferry trips to and from Finland or overnight journeys between the UK and Europe. But we have friends, John and Janice, who have been many times and love the whole experience. So much so that we…
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