From the Netherlands to Ireland. Despite living in the UK together for almost four years in the 90s Jo and I never visited Ireland, instead taking the opportunity to head east to the Continent during our time off. A short 75-minute hop from Schipol to Dublin...
The busiest and most densely populated area of Holland is known as the Randstad – a “megalopolis” as described by Wikipedia – containing the four largest cities of Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam and The Hague. While the area can at times...
I kicked off my return to London, after more than ten years, with something definitely new for me. I had been looking for a course and by accident spotted a conference hosted by the UK Feng Shui Society. At 80 GBP for the day I thought why not . . .A couple of...
I had been hankering to visit the Lake District as part of our trip. I was first there around 49 years ago – in Ullswater with my family, although at the age of 5 you don’t remember much. Roll on 20 years to 1990, when Jo had I had only just started...
From the Fishermen’s Trail we headed north again – back past Lisbon and up into the Sera de Estrela mountains to a small village called Sabugueiro. Not content with being Portugal’s highest village, we somehow ended up in an Airbnb at the...
