R and I went to a wedding in Milton Keynes this weekend – one way and another it did not turn out too well from a travel perspective. I’m not a big fan of low cost airlines or low cost airports so it was only with difficulty that R persuaded me to fly with EasyJet […]
Quite snowy when we got up this morning and it is now coming over the mountains in waves, with Beinn Bheula alternately looking alp-like and disappearing behind the clouds. Looking at the traffic Scotland live traffic cams there is two or three inches of snow at the Rest but the A83 is clear. Just as […]
I don’t normally buy myself quite such fancy things as this – but there is a story associated with the chandelier. Last Christmas I bought my Mum a beautiful glass lamp from John Lewis’. She liked it so much that when her birthday came around I thought I would get her something to match. So […]
I bought this adorable little chap in Tessera in Castle Douglas. This really is one of my favourite shops – it always seems to have the most innovative and original things. He is as light as a feather and all sparkly – ready to get in the Christmas mood. Also my Mum was telling me […]
The weather suddenly turned very cold this week, and unusually for November, we had quite a bit of snow. This would of course be the week R is away in Glasgow, and he ended up having to stay overnight, because he was concerned he won’t get back over the Rest the following morning. This was […]
Had quite a nice trip home from Venice. R and I went for a farewell walk around the city which was both nice and sad (because we were leaving). Everything seemed new washed with the rain which had fallen overnight, and outside the main streets there was virtually no one about. We said goodbye to […]
Today we went out by boat to see the northern part of the lagoon. Unfortunately we didn’t realize that the boat does not always go to the same stops and we therefore had a moment of panic when we realized we had gone to Triporte rather than Torcello which had been our original destination. So we […]
Unfortunately the weather is not of the best today. We walked straight over to St Mark’s Square in the pouring rain with my hands freezing. Venice is really beautiful though – and I had underestimated how nice it would be not having the constant pressure of traffic. Here is the view from the bell […]
I woke up at 6:30am and ran (well jumped) across the cabin to open the window blind. I was rather expecting to see some Alps, but in fact there was some rather unremarkable French countryside. At this point it began to dawn on me that part of the reason that I had slept so well […]
The way the Orient Express works now is that you leave from Victoria Station, but the train you board is actually the Belmond Pullman, which takes you through to Folkestone. From there you have to transfer to a coach to go through the Eurotunnel, after which you join the Orient Express proper in Calais. The […]
