where eagles fear to perch

Today is Day 19 of our planned 28-day break in Tenerife. We went out earlier this afternoon on our hired motorbike.  It seemed quiet on th...

A somewhat belated post, from our now regular trips to the sun during the first few months of the year, to escape the cold and miserable wea...

We've just returned from a holiday on the island of Madeira, which is a place we'd never visited before.  As keen gardeners, we...

After the success of our long winter break early last year, we decided to do it again in 2018.  By 'success' I mean avoiding the co...

We've just arrived in the Canary Islands, where we'll spend the next six weeks in an apartment hotel. Now that we don't have ...

I mentioned in a previous post that we intended to take our 'new' convertible on a driving tour of Europe .   Well, we've now r...

Well, I say new but it's an eight year old Astra 'Twintop' coupe-convertible....

It was time for a holiday, the first real one we'd had since a package to Turkey in 2008, although admittedly we did spend around ...