JenGog's Guestbook

cat on mat
I guess all of Gods creatures come to mind . I wish I had taken the whole of the space with the tiny cat sleeping it off right in the perfect spot .

reading
I tend to read a lot of fiction these days . I lost my love of reading non fiction after eight years of study but must get back to it . Istanbul was fascinating . We always wanted to do the trip which included the route from Venice to Istanbul and Dubrovnik so have ticked it off finally . We did say that Istanbul would have been the cherry on the top of the cake if we had still got Gabby and taken in the Aegean side of Turkey . It is a lovely city and we are in the middle of compiling our photograph book . We have both said it sometimes takes you to come home and review it to fully realise what you have seen and done . The Bosphorous trip we did was fascinating and I loved the Egyptian Bazaar . Been looking at Malta but cannot fly direct and go business class unless we fly to or travel to London . The choice of airlines here for Malta from Manchester are Ryanair and Easy Jet and are cheap but you can just imagine they are like drunken cattle markets . Been spoiled with Turkish Airlines Business class . Other choice might be Paris (been before but we have not been together ) with Eurostar but it is more expensive here to get down to London than it is to fly business class with Air France !!!!! It defies logic . Amsterdam by ferry from Hull to Rotterdam /Hook of Holland might be another choice . So many thoughts but I am full of a chest infection since I got home . I found the battleground of Ataturks idea of Turkey and the link to the west compared with the current leaders push for Islam and the east extemely telling particularly when we went on the Bosphorous and the guide was clearly anti east and Erdogan and not afraid to say it . The mosques were utterly fascinating too . I am not a spiritual person . I just love the architecture of religion and the mosques were inspiring .

gabby
Yes I miss the flexibility of travelling . Feels still extremely odd not being able to just get up and go . I must stop complaining !!!! No I don't think we will ever go back to buying another one now . Glenn will be 78 this year and with his knee it would be hard work . Looks like van life is definately over and I am going to have to keep thinking of ways round it . Kent was OK although staying in hotels is not our style . We got to see a bit of the county . And the cat was well looked after so we did not have to worry about him :)