Our Travel Blog is on the go again for this large trip. Welcome back to all our readers and our new members and friends. We are off on our travels again, and have decided to restart population of our Travel Blog again. We are going in search of more sun, sea and relaxation after nine months of intensive DIY work at the Villa. We now have just one large bedroom left to complete. We are currently designing what we need and plan to commence this in early May. It will be looking very nice by June. For those that have helped us design this, and will be working on this project, thank you. 15/3/2014 - We have been without a good Internet connection so there has been a delay in publishing this. We have various photographs ... read more

We arrived at Madrid at about 6.30am this morning after an 8 hour flight. During that time the clocks also went back, which made it even worse. We have another 5 hour wait for our flight to Tenerife. To try to make this a little more relaxing, we have booked a lounge for the duration, which we believe is near to the gate that our plane will leave from. Whenever we visit Madrid airport, we always seem to get lost. When we got off the plane from San Juan, we asked at the first information desk where the lounge was. We were advised that we would need to exit the gates and ask at an information desk there. We did this, and were advised to go further out of the airport. We then asked another information ... read more

We have had the last two days doing very little. We have taken the time to do a little sunbathing along with preparing for our long journey home. Thursday we managed to get about 3 hours sunbathing in before the heavens opened and it poured with rain. Later that evening we took a walk into the town and had dinner in Chinese restaurant we had seen earlier in the week near to the Kmart store. It was a lovely meal, but the restaurant was completely deserted apart from us. Looks like locals do not eat out much around here. Friday morning we were going to take in some more sunbathing, but the rain got in first, so we returned to the apartment to begin preparations for our journey. Went into town again for dinner. ... read more

We have booked with the complex to go on their Island Tour today. The tour starts at 11am and is scheduled to last about three and a half hours. Our driver for the day is ‘K9 Joe’. He is a retired US police officer on the Virgin Islands. He is able to pass on a lot of knowledge that we would not normally get. It made for a very full and interesting tour. We were in a bus of 9 people. Joe made several stops around the island for us to take pictures of the island and the surrounding islands. He always had a little story about something that has happened to him in every area. We stopped off at a hill top market where we could get some lunch. They are famous here for Banana ... read more

Thought we would try out breakfast at the pool bar this morning. The pool is just by reception, so we had to climb the stairs first so were ready for some food. It was already about 28 degrees by the time we got there at about 9.30am and the only table in the shade were at the bar, so we sat there and made friends with the barman. It was a very reasonably priced meal freshly cooked. We will be doing this again. A quality unrushed breakfast. We walked back down the stairs only to find that for some strange reason our key had stopped working. The only office on the complex is at the top, so we had to walk all the way back to the top to get it sorted. Afterwards we decided that ... read more