Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Normandy Fahrt: Day 1

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I've been away. And although I've been back for several days now, my days in Normandy are still very much with me - so much so th...
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Sunday, June 01, 2014

Turkish saga - not a Saga holiday

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I'm going to tell you a story. It's a true story, and it's already been told  in the form of a letter to a holiday company, but ...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

A high old time ...

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Before it vanishes into the dream-like recesses of memory, a few words on our January holiday. We were walking with a holiday company cal...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Ruins, wild goats and a grey Fiat

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 The real journey in Sicily began in a car. A not-very-comfortable, faintly tatty Fiat in battleship grey. We picked it up at Catania air...
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Friday, July 12, 2013

Of minnows, flounders and me

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I've decided I'm a simple soul, really. The picture above - and that's my footprint on the right - represents a perfect end ...
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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Big weans: Avignon Fahrt, part 3.

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Retreat Originally uploaded by goforchris . Sometimes - often, in fact, our Avignon trip made me feel like a teenager. A young tee...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

Of bulls, flamingoes and rice

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A feature of our recent trip to France was the journeys we made around the area - we had a bus and driver at our command throughout (the d...
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Friday, September 14, 2012

Avignon Fahrt: episode 1

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Pont St Bénezet Before last week, I think I knew two things about Avignon. There was a bridge, and there had been popes there. You can r...
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Sunday, February 05, 2012

Off the beach ...

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Fort among the palms:al Bitnah Originally uploaded by goforchris . Eight hours after arriving at Dubai airport, we set off on a trip ...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

Why Dubai?

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Why are you going there? they said. Dubai's a horrible place, someone else informed me. Never mind the oddity of telling someone that ...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Off the hook...

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Ok. I know I've been fretting about this holiday my offspring has taken his family on. But goodness, that does look like fun. And it...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

Dancing Backwards for a holiday

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I always save promising books for holidays - by which I mean time spent away from home - and almost always end up hardly reading at all beca...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Of crows (or not) and sinews

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Another improbably lovely morning in Glen Rosa as the early clouds melt and a hot sun shines on the garden - a totally private and sheltered...
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Home, home ... In the glen

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It's an odd feeling to be here - and an annoying feeling not to be able to send a photo of here to the blog: for some reason, despite an...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2011

On the march again

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On the march again Originally uploaded by goforchris . Having caught up on most of my life, thanks to a dreich day with no huvtaes, I...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Sunny Barcelona!

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Sunny Barcelona! Originally uploaded by goforchris . This is where I've been for the past week - not stuck on the beach, natch, but...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Bere bannocks

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I've been on holiday - and though I took my laptop and had wifi in my excellent B&B I was too busy being on holiday to blog about an...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

New poem/prayer

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There's a new poem - or maybe it's a prayer - over on frankenstina , which I used as the meditation during Morning Prayer on our las...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Blogging off

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I've been neglecting this blog for the past fortnight - away walking in Lanzarote for a week, of which more anon, and now off to Iona fo...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

All this, and Heaven too ....

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There are some things we have to do in life which almost no-one else understands. My have-to is to return ever so often to the island of Arr...
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