Retirement Rocks

As I stated in the previous post, most of the Farne Islands are actually just rocky outcrops and the low lying ones make navigating around t...

Well I've been back a few days after my "sudden impulse" 6 day tour around the NW of Scotland and what a trip it was. The weat...

No time for much of a byline today as I'm getting ready for a sudden departure in the morning as I'm off on a road trip to the tip o...

The following is a classic example of how, when I'm leaving some 'exotic' location, I sometimes say "well I'll never be...

Between 1989 and 1998, I'd visited the US 13 times and been to every state except Alaska and Hawaii. On 9 occasions, I'd gone for 3 ...

Five years ago this month I went on a short canal boat trip with Daphne and Stephen along a stretch of the Leeds - Liverpool canal starting ...

In the late summer of 2010, on our 2nd foray into Continental Europe (Italy the previous year), Daphne, Stephen and myself got the ferry fro...

At the end of September 2004, I was almost half way through another 6 months staying with my friends in Michigan (they now live in Florida) ...

Starting in 2009, and after 20 years of always touring America, I decided I'd missed out on trips to Continental Europe and so, with my ...

As I can't seem to find the blogging muse these days or maybe because I'm still in a sort of pre summer hibernation funk due to this...

Last Thursday the sun rose early, stretched and decided to hang around for the day.  And so it was that I decided to go for a drive as it wa...

Yes I know, another 'clever' title that I'm hoping will get me pop fan readers !  Desperate times etc but it IS sort of relevant...