Friday 30th January 2016 365 days had passed since I had realised the leap year meant New Years Eve fell on a Saturday which meant I had a golden opportunity to go to Edinburgh for Hogmanay without requiring a days…
Friday 30th January 2016 365 days had passed since I had realised the leap year meant New Years Eve fell on a Saturday which meant I had a golden opportunity to go to Edinburgh for Hogmanay without requiring a days…
Tuesday 13th December After a bread roll with honey, Jayde and I made our way to the Hotel Inglaterra where we waited for our hotel pick-up. As we sat in reception, we felt quite smug that we’d been able to…
Saturday 10th cont It was raining fairy heavily by the time we arrived in Havana and we commenced the 8km drive along the Malecón. We were dropped off in the old town and the group split up as we went…
Thursday 8th December Jayde and I had arranged for breakfast to be an hour earlier. I decided to forgo my precious morning shower to have extra time in bed, my justification being I’d had one before going out and that…
Monday 5th December continued We arrived in Trinidad and after a short orientation walk around the area we were staying in we were dropped off at a Casa Particular which was in a central location for our home stays. Jayde…
Saturday 3rd December It was back in August that Jayde had asked if I’d wanted to go to Cuba. It was a country I wanted to visit, especially before it became overly modernised but not really thought of us a…
Friday 9th September Cont… I mostly napped on the long drive with a bit of writing for this blog thrown in just so I could try to convince myself I hadn’t totally wasted the long drive. The journey was however…
Wednesday 7th Cont… After disembarking from the ferry we waited in the arrivals area whilist El went to order us two taxis. After a while it appeared everyone had left and although we weren’t told by security we had to…
Sunday 4th September continued We commenced the long walk along the gangway to the M/S Silja Serenade which appeared even bigger than the ferry from the day before. Once inside I gasped at its scale. Whilst I’d been on a…
Friday 2nd September I’d met Jayde after work on the Thursday and we’d booked a night at the Holiday Inn hotel at Stansted airport. Waking up at 4.20 was still a struggle but had prevented the need to wake up…