2023 – Yet ANOTHER year of two halves!!

December 31, 2023.Reading time 13 minutes.

I’ve to go back to 2018 to find our last relatively drama-free travel year….. Because, in 2019, Tom had his unexpected 10 day vacation in Malaga Hospital (which was brilliant BTW) with some never identified infection. Then of course we’d the Covid years. 2022 was full steam ahead until Tom (yep – him again) gave us all […]

A Postcard from the Galapagos – Literally!

July 10, 2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

Imagine life on an 18th century whaling vessel – I only see misery. Years at sea, chasing whales for their valuable oil, the crew had no means of communication with their loved ones back home. In these vast, uninhabited seas, Floreana Island was a popular pit stop for fresh water and food (unfortunately, tortoise meat […]

2022 – If ever there was a Year of Two Halves!

December 31, 2022.Reading time 10 minutes.

By January, 2022, we’d already ventured a few times from this island of ours post-Covid and, having lived to tell the tale, were feeling confident enough to hit the road (or the airport to be specific!) running as it were and more than ready to make up for lost time…. As usual, we’d no blueprint […]

My 2021 wanderings in hindsight – (not too bad to be honest!)

January 3, 2022.Reading time 12 minutes.

It’s all relative of course isn’t it, but putting wanderings and 2021 in the same headline or sentence is an achievement in itself! Needless to say, these wanderings didn’t take me very far from home – and there was certainly no SKIPPING or JUMPING!! For the first half of the year I ….. well….. I […]

2020 Reviewed – YES! We DID Travel!!

January 5, 2021.Reading time 12 minutes.

For a piece that started out as a non-event, I’m finding a surprising amount to write about! I’m amazed at what I can produce from the year that was….. It began, as many another, toasting in the New Year and wondering where the following months would take us. Summer 2020 would work around weddings – […]