Monthly Archives: May 2016

We have to leave West Tytherley. Pete used, broke and fixed the vacuum cleaner! He cut the meadow.  We ate more icecream.   We basked in sunshine and Lizzie’s good company and finished the remains of the B and Bs breakfast. … Continue reading →

Misty architectural and boatyard shapes, cold calm water, broken reflections, a million small ripples, birds in silhouette dipping and skimming, ferries churning with a white wake streaming out behind, and all the rest in fifty shades of grey. England in … Continue reading →

  Under starry skies we sailed past the Rock of Gibraltar, and in the early hours we rounded the corner to Cadiz, Spain. This is terrific, just how we like it, look over the rail, there is the city! The … Continue reading →

On the Queen there are over two hundred Round the World guests, and at least two people who live aboard year round. The journey is divided up into segments, or legs, for those who prefer a shorter cruise. The nationality … Continue reading →

  Linda and Phil come from Chineham, just around the corner from our old home in Fox Lane, near Basingstoke. They are a pleasant couple, and we invited them to share our taxi at Naples. We left at 10 with … Continue reading →

The two banks of the Suez Canal looked as if in a perpetual state of readiness for war. But here the residents of Haifa claim the most peaceful town in Israel with people of different faiths, Jews ,Christians and Muslims … Continue reading →