Europe 2015
A trip to Marlow, a fashionable town on the Thames, for lunch with a friend of 60 years duration. Marlow has a famous rowing club and pleasant pubs, where, at the george and Dragon, we ate lunch. Louis enjoyed the swings in a playground and we marvelled at a very
Europe 2015
A mile of so from Jacqui and Tom's house, through some beautiful larch, beach and hornbeam woods, lies the old town of Great Missenden, home to the author Roald Dahl. There is a museum and teashop (which I pictured inside) with many of his famous characters in evidence
Europe 2015
We started out by train from Caringbah. Travelling via Hong Kong, you see some pretty bizarre travellers! The airport 'maps' are not the least helpful. I include the obligatory 'landing wheels' pic and the moment we first reached Jacqui Tom and Louis. On arrival at their
Europe 2015
We leave tomorrow for London where my UK mobile number will be 0751 777 0575 Our house will be occupied and the cat cared for- most important!
Family
We have just booked return flights with Cathay Pacific.............. Arrive London June 7th Depart London Aug 4th
Family
A hectic dash in rush hour to return the Vauxhall Astra car to Croyden (thank heaven for satnav!), return by (new) tram to Croyden overground station, to Sydenham. Thence to Heathrow by overground and tube where we went by Cathay to Hong Kong and Sydney. Mary is at Jacqui and
Cliff
After meeting at Guildford station, Clifford and I walked along part of the North Downs way, to the delightful village of Shere on the small river Bourne. We had a drink in the White Horse pub there and I encourage you to read the chalk board message. Cliff obligingly put
Family
We drove, in rain, to the enormous Knole Manor, built for the Arch Bish of Canterbury and later 'possessed' by Henry VIII--then later the seat of the Sackville family for hundreds of years. Of the 350 rooms, 83 are still occupied by the Sackville family matriarch. The
Family
A visit to some of Tom's relatives at Whitstable today, reminded me of when,as a student, I crewed in a firefly class yacht from nearby Tankerton, in the National Championship series --50 years ago! The yacht owner won the comp the year before but sadly not with
Croatia
Sunday we flew over the Italian Alps to Stansted and Monday we drove to Swanage to be joined by niece Alex, Drew and children Jamie and Daniel. We swam at the main beach--bit different to the Adriatic!!!
Croatia
In the morning we sailed from Sipan to the island of Lopud , Lopud itself is a 'boutique'sort of island with a large expensive hotel. There was also an ancient monastery/church,dating from 1400's. We then sailed to Kopacek, stopping in a beautiful bay, on
Croatia
Friday morning early we left Korkulan and sailed to this small port on the Peljasac peninsula of Croatia, where we discovered one of those idyllic little coves. We only docked here for about 3 hours before moving to a cove where we all swam, the boat being moored by an