Blogs from Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 3

Our next trip 2016 It's starting to get a bit more real, tickets arrived last week for both cruises. We start and finish in Southampton, leaving on the Arcadia and coming home on the Queen Victoria. The first cruise taking us to Sydney via Cape Horn, after a week in Aus we embark the Queen Victoria for our cruise home via South Africa and the Cape of Good Hope. The itinerary: Southampton, Tenerife, Cape Verde Islands, Salvado, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Falkland Islands, Cape Horn, Beagle Channel, Amalia & PIO X glaciers, Valparaiso, Easter Island, Papeete, Bora Bora, Tauranga, Auckland, Bay of Islands, Sydney, Brisbane, Airlie Beach, Darwin, Bali, Brunei, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Seychelles, Mauritius, Reunion Islands, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Walvis Bay, St Helena, Ascension Island, Cape Verde, Tenerife, Madeira and then ... read more

Starting from the beginning... this decision was brought about by numerous bad ones, as are; I've decided, all the best ones. Up until the age of 18 I had done everything by the book, I went to school I got pretty good grades, I got myself into a fancy college where I got OK grades and went to University for one year. It had occurred to me in my 2nd year of A Levels that I really had no idea where my true passions lay, I couldn't think of a single thing I was passionate about, passionate enough to spend £9,000 a year studying. I changed my mind some many times it made my head spin.. Computer Science, Vet, Doctor and then the more reasonable Journalist, Author, Teacher. Honestly I knew I was one ... read more

Hi all Just wishing all our followers a Happy and prosperous New Year for 2015 Two trips organised - the Adriatic in April and New York/Canada in July Hopefully retirement beckons Best wishes to all Alastair & Lin... read more

Soon be off on our travels guys Thought you might like to view the itinerary CRUISE ITINERARY Jan 10th. Southampton Jan 18th. New York Jan 21st. Fort Lauderdale Jan 24th. Aruba Jan 26th. Limon Jan 27th. Transit the Panama Canal Jan 29th. Puntarenas Feb 5th. San Francisco 2 days Feb 11th. Honolulu Feb 12th. La Haina Feb 18th. Pago Pago Feb 21st. Nuku'alofa Feb 24th. Tauranga Feb 25th. Auckland Feb 26th. Bay of Islands Mar 1st. Sydney (2 days) Mar 4th. Brisbane Mar 6th. Airlie Beach Mar 9th. Rabaul Mar 15th. Kagoshima, Japan Mar 17th. Yokohama Mar 19th. Kobe Mar 21st. Nagasaki Mar 22nd. Pusan, S Korea Mar 24th. Shanghai Mar 26th. Xiamen Mar 28th. Hong Kong (2 days) Mar 31st. Halong Bay Apr 01st. Chan May Apr 04th. Singapore (2 days) Apr 06th. Port Kelang ... read more

Living in London for six months is great but we both wanted to make sure that while here we spent time visiting areas outside the city. Friends of ours (Happy Times) spent six months visiting Europe spending most of their time house-sitting. It sounded like the perfect win-win situation for us so we signed up to be Trusted House Sitters which usually involves taking care of a pet, but not always (contact us if you're interested in more details) and got a “job” for 4 days. It was a wonderful experience; we got a chance to meet some great people (thanks Natalie & Martin), got to see Malvern and Worcester and even had toast for breakfast. It's amazing the things you miss! There are quite a few things to see and do in the Malvern Link ... read more