[28th October-8th November 2025] Each of our five previous post-retirement trips has ended up with a week or two in Menorca, which provides a stepping stone from our home-from-home to our actual home. It feels strange to be starting off on the island this time around, as the first part Read more
[27-28 October 2025] When you step into the First Class Lounge on Platform 5 at Waverley Station, you could be forgiven for thinking you were entering the Etihad Business Class Lounge at Bangkok Airport. Apart from the (miniscule) range of food and drinks, the (lack of) comfort and opulence of Read more
We’d both only previously visited Málaga for a day, off a cruise ship in 2019. Having disembarked, we caught a taxi into a beautiful tree-lined square (Placa de la Constitution), climbed up to the Alcazabar for the wonderful views of the bay, and visited the excellent Carmen Thyssen Museum in Read more
Just before we left for our 8 days in Andalucia, a couple of folk mentioned to us that Córdoba was their favourite Spanish City. Could it really be better than Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, Bilbao (the list goes on)?A smooth and comfortable 50 minutes on the AVE Intercity train takes Read more
Malaga and Cordoba – 28/03-06/04/25 For my first post-70 trip – 70 years and 2 days to be exact – we decide to fly to Málaga, have a night in a hotel close to the railway station, then take the high speed AVE train to Cordoba the next morning, then Read more
[13th-17th October 2024] And suddenly, here it is…. that elusive old Greek magic. As the ferry from Piraeus approaches Hydra, Fiona asks me if I’m excited to finally be arriving here, 44 years after we elected not to get off the ferry at Hydra and to carry on to our Read more
[19th October-6th November 2024] So, getting towards the end of our six-week trip, we return to our other home, La Gardenia in Sol del Este, on the beautiful island of Menorca. Some locations we have visited through the years provoke the thought that perhaps we won’t return to them in Read more
[12th & 18th October 2024] In order to swap between ferry lines that serve different Greek island groups, we have booked to stay two separate nights in Piraeus, the very large port of Athens. The night we arrive in Piraeus from Paros, en route to Hydra, should be one of Read more
[4th-11th October 2024] Sitting here in our small but entirely adequate hotel room in Piraeus, the port for Athens, the Cycladic Islands of Santorini, Folegandros, and Paros already seem like a distant dream. Outside on the Port Square, there’s lots of people coming and going, some of them looking quite Read more
[29th September – 3rd October 2024] I can only assume that my comments on Santorini have managed to offend the Greek Gods. Apollo has decided to wreak his terrible revenge, in the form of some manner of food poisoning, which has struck me during the night before we leave by Read more