Truth in quotes & pictures – the sun
Do you spend any time on Instagram or Pinterest looking for inspiration? It is impossible to miss all of the quotes that are pinned and shared. Some are pointless it has to be said, but there are plenty that get a nod, a wry smile, a like or a re-pin. I thought I…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 26 – Cotswolds Cycling and Camping
May is a great month for getting away for a long weekend as in the UK we have 2 bank holiday weekends in May, hot of the back of the 4-day Easter weekend! In 2010 with a group of friends we visited the Cotswolds – it was a great location as it is…
View PostExplore the Elements
One of the reasons I started my blog was to share my photos, because more than anything else it is the photos that tell the story and keep the memories alive! We have tens of thousands of photos and I love an afternoon looking through them! Thomas Cook have put purpose into this week’s…
View PostMy year in photos – Project365
Here they all are! All 365 days of my life in 2014! I can say with extreme certainty that I am never doing this challenge again! It’s look Pretty impressive when they are in one place all together! It was certainly a busy year, but I have to say – I couldn’t be…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 20 – Paris
Paris is always a good idea! And as luck would have it we are back there next month – I cannot wait! It’s just a long weekend, and it is bound to be chilly – but there isn’t much better than time away with my husband seeing the city – we’ll be wrapped…
View PostThe final 31 pictures of project 365
I was excited about December! Not only was it the end of my photo challenge, but I also didn’t need to get on a single plane! For someone with a serious case of wanderlust and a love of staring out of plane windows looking at clouds, that was a clear sign that October…
View PostBest of 2014
What I have loved (and, frequently hated) about this year is that I have captured and recorded a photo for every day of the year – just one left to go for tomorrow! I’ve put them all in one place if you want to have a rapid look! It’s been interesting, and flicking back…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 19 – Dorset “I do”!
This is one of my favourite photos (and days)! Given the camera we had at the time – it is even more amazing! Mr P was in the process of changing jobs but had some time on his hands – so he’d done a bit of ‘shopping’! Before the new job started, off…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 18 – The Cheshire Loop
“There is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats” wrote Kenneth Graeme in Wind in the Willows! And he was right! And what was also interesting was that ‘boats’ don’t have to have sails (my preferred option) – they can actually have engines and very unpowerful…
View PostOnly 31 photos left in #project365 – here’s November
I took a deep breath at the start of November – there was an incredible amount to fit in! Sitting here in December – I managed it and I’m not exhausted! Flights being on time (and flat beds) really do make travel much easier to cope with! So – November dawned like another…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 16 – Norfolk
Now my heart may belong to Cornwall… But Norfolk is not very far behind! And it is well overdue a visit, I’m not sure we’ve been there since 2010 now? A shocking state of affairs! Happy news that friends are getting married there next summer… that’ll be a long weekend for the Parkers then!…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 15 – Killarney
That’s the view from our suite at Aghadoe Heights, looking out over the lakes of Killarney. We’re in Ireland, in County Kerry – look how green it is, incredible! We arrived in the dark, which wasn’t planned – more of that later! The concierge that showed us to our room suggested we leave…
View Post10 months through the year – Project 365 October
Another month has literally flown by! And it certainly had its fair share of flying slotted in!! Although November is going to prove October to be a walk in the park in that regard… The month started as I wish all months would, by putting on an ‘out of office’ email reply and…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 13 – Garda take 2
Oh the trouble I got in for taking this action shot… This is us in third spot, hot on the heels of 1st and 2nd place – we were flying in this race, everything was going well! To capture the moment I whipped out my waterproof camera that I had stuffed into a…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 12 – Cowdray Polo
We haven’t been for a day out at the polo now for a few years, but it is such a great day out! Quintessentially English, although that said – the first polo I saw was actually at Apes Hill in Barbados (same set, different location). Cowdray Park is a gorgeous venue for the…
View PostProject 365 – September
I am struggling to get my head round the reality that we are now 3 months from the end of the year, where did the year go. At times I struggle to find something to photo each day, but perhaps having a daily task (beyond the normal ones we all have) makes time…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 10 – Morocco
Morocco was a fam trip that my husband was invited on where I was able to go to – perfect result, and a great long weekend away in somewhere I hadn’t before considered. Ever since – I’ve been trying to get back there, but we just haven’t managed it so far sadly. We…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 9 – Minorca Sailing
Not all holidays have to be relaxing, although we did have plenty of time to relax when we weren’t sailing! Minorca Sailing is one of the better equipped beach sailing companies and they also are very good at race training and racing for experienced sailors! We had a week down there honing our…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 8 – first race win!
This photo memory isn’t travel per se, as we live in Southampton and it was taken on Southampton water, but no matter. It is an important photo! We were travelling in our chosen vessel – Pondlife, our much loved dinghy! This is Mr P and me metres away from the finish line in…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 7 – Barbados
On the same trip we were in Antigua, we also hopped up to Barbados for another week in the sunshine. This is the place that Dian Bay showed up, nice as it was! We stayed at Almond Beach on this occasion – there were 2 resorts on the island, we went for the…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 6 – Antigua
We have this photo on a canvas print over our bed – I loved the view from our room and I still love looking at it! This was my first time in the Caribbean and it was a wonderful trip. Mr P was enjoying the perks of working in the travel industry and…
View PostProject 365 – August
August arrived and with it rain and more chilly weather – more like what we expect from british summertime I guess! August was something of a pottering month for the most part, always busy though! A theme running through the month is my lack of patience with growing sunflowers – I did not…
View PostRooms with views
This months travel link up is another perfect one ‘a room with a view’! One of the reasons we travel is to relax looking at a view we don’t have at home! Why pay for accommodation if you aren’t guaranteed a view?! Well that is my thinking anyway! On that basis… this isn’t…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photos Memories 5 – Sailing at Marazion
My husband and I have done a lot of sailing and have been lucky to travel overseas from time to time to enjoy it too, but ask us both where our favourite regatta was and we’ll both say that it was this one – held in Marazion, near Penzance. It is one of…
View PostWhy travel?
I love reading the travel quotes that circulate as normally there will be one or two that absolutely resonate! But why travel? We all travel for different reasons so here are some of my reasons… Something has to pay for the travel and that something is of course work! But thinking about it…
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