Travel

  • Travel

    Lakes, roads and bridges

    Today we went to the south lakes.  I have always wanted to drive round this area without the motorway, so today we drove out on the old A6 and then back along the…

  • Travel

    Off on our travels

    J and I are off on our travels this week in my new little car Gertie.  I always give our cars names based on their number plates (for example our Land Rover with…

  • Cats,  Travel

    Mother’s Day

    Some nice things in this picture, all to do with my Mum and today. We were all three of us going over to see our Mum/Mum-in-law in Helensburgh today.  I had to get…

  • Cupar,  Travel

    Moon over Cupar

    There was the most amazing moon visible when I got up this morning – photos do not do it justice.  It was like a giant blood orange hanging so low in the sky…

  • Renovation,  Travel

    Men’s work and Women’s

    R snapped this beautiful photo over the Tay today.  He is lucky enough to be allowed out to enjoy himself going to Dundee, speaking to students, drinking beer and generally having a good…

  • Food,  Travel

    Rhu

    Went to Rhu to see my Mum today.  Our run along the A91 was somewhat slowed by a cycle club choosing to use the main road as a venue for either a general…

  • Travel

    Italy

    When R and I were in Capri we saw this map of the island.  It was made out of tiles and was actually an advertisement for a pizza restaurant.  I liked it so…

  • Travel

    There’s no place like…

    Home again today.  The flight was at 6:30am so we had to get up at 3am.  Actually we could probably have left it quite a bit later but R is very fond of…

  • Travel

    Dracula and Castle

    Actually not Dracula’s Castle (that’s in Transylvania) but Dracula’s putative tomb in the church of Santa Maria Nuevo.  Actually the evidence of it actually being related to Vlad himself seems a bit tenuous…

  • Travel

    T’was on the Isle of Capri

    We went to Capri today having now located the right part of the port for the hydrofoils (we saw the Sorrento ferry we should have caught yesterday).  The crossing was a little choppy…