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2015 Novice cruisers
Planning for a Sydney winter holiday for 2015 was not really a problem. We’d self-catered in Paris, Barcelona, Madrid & Lisbon in 2014, and ‘trained’ our way around Europe in 2013, but we had grown older, and the handling of our suitcases had become harder for us all. Few railway stations seemed to have …
I’ll never go abroad 1960 – 1965
Introduction Do you ever regret making a comment years ago, which proved how stupid and wrong you where when you look back over your life? I was about thirteen at the time and ‘studying’ French. On the completion of the final examination the class results positioned yours truly second to bottom in a class of …
2015 Australian Road Trip
Maureen and I have seen quite a lot of Asia so we thought it was about time that we saw some more of Australia. We decided to visit Adelaide, which would also give us a chance to see Hazel & Ray (Hazel is Maureen’s cousin). I planned the ‘Road Trip’, as it was now being …
2014 Bali
Bali Hai – Bali Nay – perhaps more Nay than Hai, for three mature couples. The transport to the airport was booked for 6.00 am on a Tuesday, so my wife and I were up and about just after 4.00 am for the start of a very long day. Our MH flight was an AB300 …
Airlines – The Good, The Bad & The Dangerous
After flying with nearly forty different airlines during my working life I have to say they are a mixed bag. I started my flying experiences in the mid 60’s when I flew to / from the Far East to either join a ship or to fly home on leave. The airlines are in alphabetical order …
2013
Trains do not run on time, but on electricity so this year we decided to have a look at Berlin, Prague, Budapest and Vienna all by train. Our overall plan was as usual to fly Malaysian Airlines in to Kuala Lumpur, over night for the morning flight to Colombo to pick up the Qatar Airways …
2012 September – England reunion
HMS CONWAY 1859 – 1974 Television and the cinema industry are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of the first James Bond film (Dr. No) in 1962. I can remember seeing Dr No at the pictures in Falmouth, which was playing to packed houses. The reason that I was in Falmouth was to join …
2009
Shakespeare said that The Golden age is before us, not behind us! That was good enough for me so this year we are off to Thailand. For one reason and another this trip was only for four of us (two couples), rather than the normal group of eight. For my wife and I, it …
2007
A war by any other name . . . . . . Vietnam – 2007 As a group we’d ‘done’ Malaysia in 2005 and Sri Lanka in 2006, with a few days in Malaysia before and after our visit to Sri Lanka. So when I was asked ‘Where next?’ I was reading ‘Brighton Rock’ by …
