by Ian Gmail | Jun 12, 2019
Christopher Columbus monument in Jardine de Murillo We love a ‘wow’ moment in our travels and the more such moments, the better. Mostly the natural surroundings that provide it, such as the magnificent west coast of Scotland we visited recently, with views...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 6, 2019
‘Nose up’ (actually ‘tail-up’ too) to the 16th Century town hall in Puebla de Sanabria Three days before our 24-hour ferry journey to Santander Brittany Ferries wrote to advise us that, due to rudder problems requiring our ship to go into dry dock for...
by Ian Ferris | May 25, 2019
“God’s own country”? An understatement, I say, and haggis for breakfast too! We’ve reached “the end of the road” according to the sign at John o’Groats on our driving tour of Scotland, with the dogs. It’s been a wonderful trip so far. The weather has been very kind to...
by Ian Ferris | Feb 2, 2019
. Three mornings a week, Leah, Colin and Laura attend a ‘Boot Camp’ exercise class on the green above the beach. Run by a Navy PE instructor it’s a tough 45 minute workout I can personally vouch for from my vantage point at Leah’s apartment window, mug of tea in...
by Ian Ferris | Dec 10, 2018
We took a very pleasant four-hour Brittany Ferries crossing to Cherbourg, had breakfast and a nap onboard, before driving to Sainte-Mere Eglise, the village onto which two plane-loads of US paratroopers were dropped in error the night before D-Day, including Private...
by Ian Ferris | Nov 28, 2018
Bletchley Park (or ‘Station X’) near Milton Keynes was the secret site that housed the British Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) during World War II, which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers, most importantly, the German...
