Category: Holidays

  • Christmas Cruising 18-25 Dec 2019

    On the way to the Allegro Lounge in Northfield a few months back, we passed the Tui shop window and spotted a cruise of the eastern Mediterranean on offer. So after dinner we went home looked it up and the next evening booked the cruise going from Cyprus to Turkey, Egypt and Israel, followed by…

  • Goodbye Killarney

    Well we discovered that Killarney is a night owl sort of place as the buses do not start departing until 10.00am. Our flight home leaves Shannon on Thursday morning at 10.40am, so I capitulated to Irish time and custom and booked us a room at the Park Inn at Shannon Airport for Wednesday night. We…

  • Birthday trip to Killarney – 15 July 2019

    Birthday trip to Killarney – 15 July 2019

    I came to Killarney a few years ago with Judith and my sisters. Our one regret was not getting to see the Ring of Kerry. So I decided to make a quick journey back to take a bus tour round the Ring – it is a 180 mile circular journey. That is tomorrow’s treat. Today…

  • I am not a Weaver

    I am not a Weaver

    A few months ago a member of the Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers was looking for a member or friend to travel with her to Farfield Mill in Sedbergh. She wanted to support the mill by joining a workshop on Weaving a Tartan. As the blurb about the course reassuringly that it was suitable…