Category:Holiday

Sunday16th April All Aboard: Cruise (Day 1) For a quick summary of our holiday plans, click on ‘Paradise Found’ above 👍 “Ahoy there me hearties!” 🦜🏴‍☠️ It’s Sunday, 11.45am, local time (12.45am, Kettering Mean Time) and we’ve just said goodbye to the Apartment where we’ve been staying for the past few days. We took the …
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Saturday15th AprilPapeete, Tahiti – Day 2 Morning Readers! Thanks for your continued readership. Today, is our last full day here in the Apartment in Papeete, Tahiti and we’re taking a Ferry trip to the island of Mo’orea (the little one on the left, below!). Looks like the weather is similar to yesterday, but with an …
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Friday 14th April: Papeete, Tahiti – Day 1 Good Morning loyal Readers coming to you live (ish) from our first full day here in Papeete in Tahiti. It’s only 5.25am, and it’s already in the mid-twenties! 🥵🥵 We arrived last night around 8pm and soon settled into our self-catering Apartment (our home for the new …
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Thursday13th April:Papeete, Tahiti Another day, another country – and another timezone! Having said goodbye to San Francisco this morning, we’re now on our way to Tahiti in French Polynesia and the capital town of Papeete. It’s an eight-hour (ish) flight, courtesy of United Airlines, UA115, and there’s another change to our watches. We were -8 …
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Wednesday, 12th April: San Francisco (last full day) Catching up? For a quick summary of our holiday plans, click on ‘Paradise Found’ above 👍 Good morning all! 👍😀. It’s our last full day here in glorious San Francisco. We’ve already taken the Big Bus Tour (Monday) and visited Alcatraz (yesterday) and so today, we’re going …
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Tuesday, 11th April: Second Day in San Francisco For a quick summary of our holiday plans, click on ‘Paradise Found’ above 👍 Welcome back, loyal readers! Thanks for all your comments on yesterday’s Post! Yes, it was a busy one! 🤪. I’m not sure we even had time to think about our jet-lag! This is …
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Easter Monday, 10th April: San Francisco Morning all! 😀 Here we are in San Francisco (population: c815k spread across 232 sq. miles) – and it’s our first full day having arrived at the 252-room Argonaut Hotel last night, after an 11-hour flight from Heathrow. The Hotel is in a good location – Fisherman’s Wharf – …
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Sunday, 9th April: Hello San Francisco! For a quick summary of our holiday plans, click on ‘Paradise Found!’ above 👍 At last, hello San Francisco! It’s 2.30pm local time and we’ve just arrived! Our plane landed 40 minutes early too! It seems like only a few hours ago, we were queuing with the masses (and …
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Sunday, 9th April: Next stop? San Francisco! For a short summary of our holiday plans, click on ‘Paradise Found’ above 👍 Heathrow on Easter Sunday! Morning all! Well, here we are at Heathrow Airport on Easter Sunday. When we made the booking we hadn’t spotted that our travel was over the Easter period, and as …
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Paradise Found! Well, this is the BIG one! Probably the most varied and lengthy holiday we’ve ever taken! As you can guess from the title of this Post, our 28-day jaunt, near and around the Pacific Ocean, involves land, air and yes (a lot of) sea! We had originally planned to do this one a …
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Morning all! 👍. It’s Day 2 of our short break, staying in Holt, Norfolk. Click to catch up with yesterday’s Post 5.55am: Well, it’s still dark outside, but judging by the sound of traffic passing the Pub, it’s going to be a wet one here today! But maybe we’ll be lucky elsewhere? After breakfast, we’re …
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Who goes there? Well, actually, quite a few people, it seems. Holt isn’t a very large town (pop. c4000), but it IS very popular – and it was certainly worth the two-hour drive from ours! 👍. Holt is a Georgian Town full of independent shops and even sports a few 22kW EV chargers too! The …
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