Travel 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 PostIt’s beginning to feel a lot like #Christmas… everywhere we go!
This is actually a post from Christmas 2013, but so far this year my search for Christmas things in the UK has been hampered by a pre-Thanksgiving trip to the USA! As a result having toured much of the US, I saw just one Christmas tree – so my Christmas count is currently…
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…
View PostVienna in November
A weekend in Vienna in November was a real treat for us! Last month we went through the holiday blues coming back from the warmth of Greece with no more sunshine trips on the horizon (having thoroughly spoilt ourselves this year). But this month we had a long weekend visiting friends that live…
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 PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 14 – Goodwood
Another quintessentially british day out – this time at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. This is an annual event near Chichester on a long and winding race track within the grounds of Goodwood House, known as the hill climb. Cars from different eras make timed runs up the track. It’s a good place…
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 PostFalling in love on the road… with Cornwall
Falling in love on the road? Well I haven’t! I had to think about this – as when we are away we tend to keep ourselves to ourselves, I rarely see anything and have to buy it and I didn’t meet Mr P on my travels…. What else could I have fallen I…
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 PostAutumn visit to Greece
Greece – well finally I’ve found where future sunshine mini breaks will be!! I’ve only ever heard about the party islands or the gilded resorts on Santorini and so had crossed these off the preferred visit list. I wanted to enjoy the real and rustic country, in luxurious surroundings! Thankfully Mr P knew…
View PostFlashback Friday travel photo memories 11 – Snowdon
New year 2007-08 and we were looking for activities to keep a group of us out of the pub and doing something fun together! Some of our friends live on Anglesey and so we came to the happy conclusion that climbing Mount Snowdon was the thing to do! Looks of preparation and making…
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 PostInteresting characters from our travels
Another great link up idea, thanks to the lovely ladies Emma, Kelly, Rebecca and Molly – most interesting travel characters! Well apart from the best celeb spot and conversation that we have so far managed in the British Airways Concorde Lounge I had to have quite a think about this…. We don’t tend to make…
View PostSailing in Sardinia
As places to spend a week sailing, laughing with friends and generally relaxing and having a jolly good time go – well, it doesn’t really get much better! Mr P and I have both spent many years sailing on big boats and so we were thrilled to be invited to sail on Bella…
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…
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