Category:Holiday

It’s our last full day here today, before we take the two-hour train journey tomorrow, to Hamburg. The weather forecast is cloudy but at least dry, and we’ve got a few cultural places to visit, so we’ll probably spend most of the day inside. As the day turned out, the weather held, and we did …
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We were up with the birdies to ensure we got a good run to Birmingham Airport – leaving the house at 5.30am. Weather was atrocious (so, a good week to be leaving the UK), but being a Saturday, at least the roads were fairly quiet. We checked-in at Brum without any problem, but as boarding …
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It’s our last day here in this most beautiful part of France and whilst Steve and Helen are concentrating on getting ready for their new guests for the coming week, that leaves us to do some more exploring of the surrounding area. We’re off to Villefranche-du-Perigord and then onto the Castle at Bonaguil. Even though …
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What a warm night! – even with all the windows open, and because there was no breeze, it just stayed sweaty! It’s only 8am (ish) and just look at the temperature below. As the Sun rose, surprisingly, it actually got a bit cooler, but we could hear thunder in the background. The updated forecast for …
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After getting up at ‘silly-o’clock’, we jumped in the car and headed for East Midland’s Airport, and our flight at 7am to Bergerac Airport, courtesy of Ryanair. On arrival, the airport was heaving – much busier than I remember it back in my working days! In turn, and this added to the pressure at Security. …
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The forecast was for another day of ‘iffy’ weather, so we decided to continue our exploration of Denmark – but by staying under cover as much as possible. First stop of the day was Helsingor by train – and to make us feel at home, the journey was punctuated with engineering works requiring about three …
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Today’s Blog is brought to you by the colour ‘grey’ and the number ‘5’. We certainly saw a contrast in the weather here today – it’s been threatening to rain all day and the sky has been mostly a yukky grey/blue colour. It’s been cold too – a real gust blowing all day, especially close …
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We said goodbye to Sweden and caught the train to Helsingborg. This was us acting spontaneously as promised yesterday! What we did was instead of taking the reverse of the journey we took when we first arrived on Monday, we got off about two thirds of the rail journey back towards Malmo and became foot-passengers …
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We just checked with the Escape Committee.  and we’re getting out at 9.46 disguised as ‘guests checking out’ (Theme tune from ‘The Great Escape’ playing through my headset). In order to blend in, we’re currently mingling with guests at breakfast, in order not to draw attention to ourselves. #WheresMyMotorbike Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite …
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After yesterday’s discovery that our accommodation here at the ‘Scandic 25’ resembled more of a prison cell, than a hotel room, the Scandic prison guards have been very clever overnight. In order to ‘break us’, they’ve cleverly switched the standard mattress for an ultra comfortable one, and they also did something to the room, so …
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We caught the 12.05 train to Gothenberg, saying goodbye to Malmo. It’s was a two-and-a-half hour silky smooth journey in one of the most comfortable trains I think we’ve ever travelled in – reaching 202 kph at one point. Bye-bye Malmo – hello Gothenberg! On arriving at Gothenberg, we attempted to find our next hotel …
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England 1, Italy 2! What a great headline to wake up to!!! The weather forecast is about the same as yesterday, but with the possibility of the train service being restricted, we’re only going as far as the seaside town of Ystad today. It’s home to the country’s oldest cinema (Biografteatern Scala), a production studio, …
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Our day started with our 6.30 pickup by taxi to Birmingham Airport. Then, after what was possible the worst cooked breakfast I’ve ever tasted (thank you Wetherspoons!), we were soon on board our flight to Kastrup in Denmark. A smooth flight courtesy of SAS landed us five minutes ahead of schedule. We yomped to the …
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Received a Kit-Kat today! No, it wasn’t me ignoring my Lent List, instead, it was the rather bizarre name for the latest OS update to my Android phone, the Galaxy S4. A rather chunky 354.88Mb download showed that it was going to take around 20-30 minutes to grab the update file – but that was …
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A rare (ish!) ‘pure’ techy blog for my readers, who are interested in ensuring their websites are well-ranked in Google’s search engine results. I can’t claim authorship – it’s from those very clever guys and gals at seosherpa.com – and definitely worth a read! Click on the graphic for a version that’s easier to download. …
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Our last day here and we’re planning to sun-worship for as long as we can (before the boring, but necessary task of packing begins this afternoon). But still one last opportunity for indulgence in the shape of a half-price (I am a pensioner!) back-and-shoulder massage in the fully equipped Spa. Actually, it was a smart …
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Well, 25C is the coldest day so far – but I guess we’ll cope! It’s day 4 of 5 here and we plan to do no planning at all! We took a quick look around the ‘recreated’ heritage village next door and that was a bit disappointing in term of content. It was fun trying …
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Sometimes difficult decisions need to be made – even on holiday – so here we are in the gym at 8am!!! Some mistake surely??? Death in Paradise? Even by my standards (very low), this is a well-equipped gym – and better still, it was empty, so no fear of embarrassment either as I fumbled with …
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Another ‘silly o’clock’ start with the car picking us up at 6.30am to get us to the airport for our 8.50 flight. So, it was Rice Al-Krispies at 5.45am and goodbye to what’s been possibly the best hotel we’ve ever stayed at. The journey to the airport was incident-free and we were soon joining the …
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  Those that know me, know that I don’t do ‘lie-ins’ – as soon as I’m awake, and the brain kicks in (more slowly these days!), I’m normally up and doing stuff. So, it was quite a surprise that we didn’t get up until 9.30 this morning! Eeeek! that’s nearly lunchtime for me!!! It’s our …
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