http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/AdandSar/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from AdandSar en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:28:26 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:28:26 BST We frequently visit places in Kent http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Kent/blog-249180.html Helen and I visited the Monte Carlo casino for a night of dressing up and gambling and glitter http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Monaco/Monte-Carlo/blog-249179.html Mel and I hit San Antonio at 18 ... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Ibiza/blog-249178.html Kefalonia was a beautiful island offering a good and varied week for us. Would definately recommend hiring a car and driving the circular route stopping at beach resorts quaint villages and the traditional tourist attractions. Avoid driving in the rain though ... the roads get very slippery and after the car span ... we were very lucky to not have dropped down the cliff face and ended up ... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Ionian-Islands/Kefalonia/blog-246619.html A truely delightful and relaxing place to spend a weekend ... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Gloucestershire/Cirencester/blog-246614.html We decided to head out and enjoy a fun family weekend away ... Eurodisney was a bit costly ... and therefore we decided to brave a Centrepark. We decided on Elveden Forest and had a fantastic weekend. We had upgraded accommodation and stayed in a perfect spot between the health centrespagolf club and the restaurantsmain centre. We joined in with all sorts of activities. Next time we probabl http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Suffolk/blog-246612.html Liz arranged a surprise birthday weekend we all met in a pub in Ireland ... and poor Ray thought he had a romantic weekend away with his lovely wife http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Dublin/Dublin/blog-246285.html Weekend away to celebrate Martin's 40th need to find the photo's http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Oxfordshire/blog-246284.html Spent our weekend visiting family and going to an 80th Birthday party. Autumn is a beautiful time to visit the New Forest. Stayed in Lyndhurst once again very pleasant. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Hampshire/New-Forest/blog-246283.html We enjoyed our trip to Malta we based ourselves in Mellieha Bay and it was very easy to travel around the country by local bus and very cheap. We only stayed a week but travelled around visiting Mosta an absolute must Valletta Comino island and was also easily able to walk across to see the Popeye village filmset on the west coast. For a good easy week it is a quiet relaxing place to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Malta/Malta/blog-240436.html We travelled around highlights to follow http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Sri-Lanka/blog-240433.html Relaxing island highlights to follow http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Penang/blog-240432.html Easy city highlights to follow http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Selangor/Kuala-Lumpur/blog-240431.html Fantastic journeys in Borneo details to follow http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sarawak/blog-240430.html We stayed within a few minutes walk of Port El Kantaoui. Nice port with a good selection of restaurants and bars. Purpose built so quite pleasant. We did travel around as you can see from the photo's. Very nice holiday. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Sousse/blog-240428.html We had a fantastic trip in Kenya in 2006 details to be added on the safari's and Mombassa http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Kenya/Nairobi-Province/Nairobi/blog-240425.html I'm now half way through updating my holiday diary ... it takes some time ... more installments soon It might save you visiting my off line album http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/blog-220207.html My other 'blog' was written whilst away ... I am updating and adding now I am back I have had several people ask where we stayed it was httpwww.parkesmanor.co.za and really was very nice we were looked after well. And just a 1015 min easy walk to the restaurants and shops on the lagoon. The shops were nice lots of security personnel around however didn't feel unsafe at all very clean http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Knysna/blog-220202.html Following the Cango Caves we headed ...5. to Prince Albert via the Swartberg Pass. We passed over the mountains using this gravel pass. On one side there were fantastic views across the fields and villages and once over the top the other side was a magnificent mountain pass with beautiful scenery. It is a wonder how on earth it was cut into the mountains apparently it took a convict labo http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Prince-Albert/blog-220195.html Had a fun day at Oudsthoorn ... which was full of excitement ..1. Checked out of hotel we only had one night here2. Drove round residential areas of the town ... very pretty streets that just suddenly end seems a nice residential area to live3. Visited an Ostrich Show Farm just before turning off to the Cango Caves. The guide was excellent told us the history of Ostriches explained the http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Oudtshoorn/blog-220190.html