Up early again today – 7am wake up to ensure we get to the gates of Troy before they opened the gates. Breakfast was slightly disappointing, for a 5-star hotel it certainly didn’t match its ratings. Anyway, muesli and yoghurt consumed and ready for a day of adventure, we took off for Troy. On arrival, through the gates we were met with a sight of the big famous wooden horse. Now, I won’t go into too much detail behind the history of Troy, I’ve probably lost many readers after yesterday’s step back in history. But in a nutshell, Troy is an ancient city that was destroyed by the Greeks in a war that started cos some young Trojan prince stole the wife of a Greek king. The Greeks, who couldn’t initially break through Troy’s massive walls, ... read more

We were up at 8am this morning to have breakie with everyone at the hotel and then start exploring. So, out the door at 9am into the already scorching heat. Meant to be 35deg and 94% humidity or something today! We wandered up to the Hippodrome initially. This is where events used to take place in Istanbul and is used now I think for prayer and gatherings. Its been preserved pretty well but wasn’t hugely exciting to see. They had a “pencil” slash needle which was given to the turks from Egypt which was in amazing condition after a couple of thousand years! So we took a few snaps and then moved on to the blue mosque. This to my disappointment is not blue! Kind of blue on the inside but not really! It was pretty ... read more

We woke to another sunny day in Tenerife. We will be sad to leave this lovely place. Last breakfast...so we decided to have the glass of free champagne on offer (well keith and Rach did, mine ended up in my breakfast and in my lap! i wish I could say it was a sudden gust of wind that knocked it over, but unfortunately it was my clumsy hand, waving around as I was explaining something!) Another omelette(poached eggs for Rach) made especially for us, feshly squeezed orange juice and croissants. Yum! Stocked up on lunch goodies as well...we are getting very slick at making our lunch rolls, wrapping them in tissue and sliding them into our nags without being seen! Keith had nabbed our seats by th pool again, and we sauntered from breakfast to the ... read more

Continuing on with the theme of Tenerife mornings we were awake early after having barely any sleep due to the constant lovely snoring tunes that were playing in our room all night! We naturally were excited about breakie and about getting lunch prepared at breakie after already trying our hand at being sneaky yesterday. So we scoped out a more secretive table for stealing purposes./ We all had the same breakie as usual. I enjoyed my bacon and poached egg on toast with a lil pain au chocolat toasted! Then we made filled rolls ad wrapped them all undercover and shoved them into handbags – naughty but oh so practical and money saving!! J After, we headed back upstairs for the routine sunscreening session and down to the pool. Unfortunately there was another wedding this arvo ... read more

Right...no less snoring last night but luckily we didn’t have a strenuous day ahead of us! We started the day with yet again another yummy breakfast – eggs bacon, omelettes, fresh orange juice, pain au chocolats! Mm! Filled up and ready to lie by the pool for the day! We res­­­umed our posie at the ed of the pool which required us literally to stand up and bend over to slide in the pool barely without even stepping! And that we did all morning. I started reading a really good book recommended by Patsy – A Thousand Splendid Suns. I was engrossed for most of the day yet highly entertained also by the family next to you. A boyfriend and his girlfriend with her family. The boys played catch with her in the water to which ... read more