Thankfully after our 03:00 alarm we had a wonderful flight arriving at the first completely solar powered airport in the world. We travelled through palm tree lined villages and roads to the city. It has a completely different feel to anywhere we have been so far in India. It’s smaller and greener and where everywhere […]
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Bombay Mix
There were two things we noticed when landing in Mumbai – the first was the heat and the second was the relative silence on the roads. The roads were busy, extremely busy as you would expect for a city with a population of 22 million, it’s just that there was virtually no honking of horns. […]
Town and Country
What a breath of fresh air Jodhpur is, literally. We are in the countryside on the edge of the city, and it is wonderful. Our hotel is in the style of a Rajasthan Palace with open corridors and a central garden courtyard. There is a fine cotton mesh over the corridor arches and the courtyard […]
A thought provoking day . . .
So the day got off to a good start – I had to rescue 👨🏻twice, as he got on the wrong minibus, twice. Not a good sign on day 4 of the holiday, especially as I thought that I’d not been misbehaving too much. I hadn’t intended to write a post tonight, but the thoughts […]
Just mooching around in The Mother City, The Big Table and the man jumps . . .
After a few hours in the lounge at Heathrow, and too much free alcohol, we slept, and presumably snored, our way to Cape Town. Great flight! Pleased to see the “health checks” before passport control – better than nothing, and neither of us were too warm so we were allowed into the country. However, we […]
LJOY Purim Beach Party
So it was the end of February and it had been trying to snow all day – its obvious, lets have a Beach Party! This was the theme of the LJOY Purim event – 60 kids dressed in beach theme (but then I guess its normal for their age to be wearing shorts and T-shirts […]
They’ve all flown the nest . . . . now it’s our turn!
So our children are all grown up and have had or are on their own holidays – without us now. I don’t know whether to be happy or sad! However it has meant that after 23 years Steven and I can go away as a couple again for more than just a few days, for […]
Oh what a night . . . and a New Year as well!
It’s great playing games with friends, but we wanted to do something really different this New Year’s Eve – total humiliation for all of us! We decided to do a murder mystery evening. I have to say it was hard work preparing for it, but I think it went really well. Really easy to do, courtesy […]
Keswick and David’s 18th – Families I and Y!
Taken a few weeks but I have finally put up something about our Keswick trip. We set off cars fully laden, in the morning of the 24th December, David’s 18th, to spend 5 days in a cottage in Keswick with our good friends, Family Y. We had the most amazing time and amazingly are still […]
Fun in the snow
Well here are three young men, two of which have the day off from school because of the weather. They could either (a) use their time to revise for their modules next week – after all they want to go to Veterinary and Medical School or (b) mess about in the snow! Click below on […]