Flashback Friday Travel 30 – East Coast Road Trip
As you may already have read, we are shortly heading back to see a new piece of the East Coast of the USA – beautiful Maine – I thought it was apt to share memories as part of FBF of the last time we visited the east coast. You can read my tips…
View PostApril travels with Penelope and Parker
April is only 30 days long granted, but I didn’t realise a month could pass so blooming quickly – where did it go?… Well – I suspect if I did some quick maths it would know that I spent more time either in the air, an airport lounge or a hotel than I had…
View PostPenelope and Parker in March
April is running away and March already feels like a cold month that has been replaced by spring sunshine and warmth… March was busy indeed – here’s a summary Flipagram: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Anna Parker (@annaeparker) We came home from Paris full of energy from 3 days…
View PostTravel guilty pleasures
This months travel link-up theme is guilty pleasures – once again the lovely ladies Rebecca, Emma, Kelly and guest host Polly have thought of an interesting theme!! I have a few pleasures in travel, but I can’t say I feel much guilt about them… Firstly enjoying champagne. There are many pictures of me with a…
View PostPlaces to visit again
Travel – it’s all about seeing somewhere new? Right or wrong? Well, I guess in some ways it is – it is fantastic to discover a new place and fall in love with it, and it is motivational to have a bucket list full of more amazing places still to visit. But there…
View Post#Take12Trips – the first 3 months!
Goodness knows where the time went, but here comes April and we’ve already had a weekend warm enough for shorts and tshirt (followed 2 days later by needing hat, scarf and gloves for my morning commute) – the last three months flew by and quite impressively (compared to last year) I have not been on a single plane…
View PostBirthday weekend in Paris
I have quoted it many a time, but once more – ‘Paris is always a good idea’! We visited in 2009 in September when the city was sultry and busy and ever since we have both wanted to return for a slower mooch around, with less need to see the sites and so…
View PostPenelope and Parker in February
February has flown by at a terrifying speed… click here for the full flipagram of the best bits (needs a little time to load – the…) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Anna Parker (@annaeparker) Countless times this month I have thought spring was here, and then the next day we’ve…
View PostLost in translation – food allergy travels
Lost in translation – I have been wracking my brains for something for this months travel link up with Kelly, Rebecca, Emma and Sam and I just couldn’t think of anything. Normally if I am out of the UK I am either with colleagues that take the lead or worse still the locals…
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 PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 25 – Honeymoon in St Lucia
The final leg of our South African tour took us over to the east coast of the country, up near to the Mozambique border – to a small town call St Lucia. We had toyed with going on to the Maldives, but it felt like a bit of a cliché, so instead we…
View PostThe benefits of blogging
Another great travel link up from Kelly, Emma and Rebecca – as well as guest host Sara! The unexpected benefits of blogging! I’ve only been blogging for 18 months but have already stumbled across plenty of benefits that I certainly hadn’t thought about when I wrote my first musings! With any hobby or interest, it has…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 22 – Honeymoon in Cape Town
After a peaceful week relaxing and enjoying wine in Stellenbosch we joined our friends! Many would think it strange to share a honeymoon with others, but it was a great part of our trip! And there is no better way of seeing the best a city has to offer than with locals! Two…
View Post2015’s challenge – #take12trips
2014’s challenge was to take a photo a day for 365 days! It was a real challenge, good to look back on now, but at times really frustrating! An accountants life is not always the most exciting. Thankfully I only took pictures of my cups of tea on a few occasions! So for…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 21 – Honeymoon in Stellenbosch
As private garden spaces go, this verdant spot at a Boutique winery in Cape Town is pretty damn perfect! This was the garden outside our cottage at Camberley Wines. As you can see the cottage comes with a lovely labrador (the owner’s, but he seemed to like the sunny terrace and the view…
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 PostTravel Advent Calendar – A Rural Retreat for Christmas
As part of the #traveladventcalendar I am taking this opportunity to tell you about a lovely Christmas we had in the middle of nowhere a few years ago! The year that we got married had been busy so at Christmas we decided on a rural retreat, just the two of us. It was…
View PostWinter is the time to update the travel bucket list
It’s amazing how much a travel bucket list can change, even since I started writing this blog! Granted I have checked off a few places that had been on the hit-list for a while (Greece, Sardinia, the Giants Causeway), but the list changes depending on what we see and enjoy from our travels,…
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 PostAmerican Airlines Business Class – LHR to MIA
I’m very loyal to British Airways, but for a recent business trip the flight time on a BA code share with American Airline’s to Miami was much more amenable and so I took the brave step. This step was buoyed along by the fact that the flight was on one of AA’s brand new…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 17 – Almeria
Andalucía was never somewhere on my list to visit, probably as I hadn’t really heard of this region of Spain until Mr P came home one day and said that he was working with them as a sponsor in a sailing series he managed and he’d need to be there in October! Now…
View PostUPDATED Washington Dulles BA Lounge & the BA216 A380 home
Just a couple of weeks ago, British Airways opened its new Galleries lounge at Washington Dulles Airport, coinciding with the new BA A380 route between IAD and London Heathrow. As chance would have it last week I was flying British Airways business class to and from Washington and so was able to visit! Not…
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