Excellent day today exploring some of Suffolk's treasures. First to Sutton Hoo, site of two early medieval cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries. One cemetery had an undisturbed ship burial with a wealth of Anglo-saxon artefacts. The burial mounds are clear to see and there are lovely walks across the site with views down to the river below. Fortunately summer has returned so we had a glorious blue sky for our walk. There is also an exhibition explaining how the treasures were uncovered in 1938 and examples of the finds. Fascinating. We haven't seen The Dig film yet but will as soon as we get home. From Sutton Hoo our faithful little Smart Arse took us a little further north to Snape Maltings. Here on the banks of the River Alde are repurposed Victorian ... read more

First of all I really need to introduce you to our new motorhome vehicles. So the first photo is of Chaussy and Smart Arse. We are just getting used to both of them and so far are incredibly happy with the partnership and hoping for many happy and adventurous trips with them. Today the weather forecast was not at all good and when we woke it was to a very blustery wind with a nasty chill and promises of rain. As it happened we only caught a little rain but the sun was awol for most of the day. Summer has temporarily deserted us. Smart Arse took us for a little ride through the Cambridgeshire countryside to National Trust Wimpole House. The grounds are enormous. Just to get to the house from the carpark was quite ... read more

Goodness, can't believe how long it is since I posted a blog on here. I've just been making photographic records of our most recent holidays and trips on my Facebook page and have somehow just not found time to write anything here as well. Last blog was India 2019 and when we got back from there things changed, quite a lot, as Bob developed angina when we were there and ended up in Stoke Hospital July 19th where he had open heart surgery for a double bypass. All now very good indeed and it is hard to imagine looking and him now, restored to full health, that we had that pretty awful scare 2 years ago. It did curtail our activities though and we did no motorhoming as driving a 3.5 ton Tandy motorhome around with ... read more

Last year we had just one full day in Mumbai so did the standard tourist trip down to the Gateway to India, Crawford Market and the railway station taking in Marine Drive and Bandra Worli Sealink. This year we have planned two days to allow us to see a bit further into this massive city. First on the list was Dhobi Ghat, the major laundry for the city. This is where the main hotels send their washing as it has the best reputation. We asked the hotel for a taxi to take us there and got a ridiculous quote of 6000 rupees so instead asked for an outside taxi. That one cost 600 rupees (£6). With difficulty we persuaded the taxi driver that we only wanted to be taken there and dropped off. The taxis over ... read more

Today’s plan was for a little less scootering and a bit more relaxing. After breakfast, smothered in factor 15, we headed for the beach and the sea. These days in Goa are the only ones when we are fully exposed to the sun as we tend to cover up quite a lot in the cities. There are red flags along the beach but someone was in the water with a small child directly in front of the hotel so we went in there too. Then a man in high viz came along with his whistle and ordered us out of the water, said we couldn’t swim at that red flag, we must swim at the one to the left or the right as those had a lifeguard sitting underneath. So we went left and sure enough ... read more