They say travel broadens the mind. It can delight and frustrate in equal measure, but it certainly alters your perspective on the world (and where you come back to). Here's some accounts of trips I have made which I hope are fun to read. Your reflections on the same places are probably quite different to mine - but that's what travel is about, isn't it?
09-June-2025
From Quebec City to Toronto by train MAY 2025 In this story we fly from Manchester to Quebec City (via Toronto). Then we travel by train […]
12-November-2024
PORTO, OCTOBER 2024 How about a holiday where the whole family spend four nights in a new city not too far away? After some discussion we […]
12-November-2024
PARIS, MAY 2024 It was a good while since we’d been to Paris, and a trip seemed long overdue, so preparations for a runaway weekend began. […]
05-October-2023
CARCASSONNE, SEPTEMBER 2023 Imagine a medieval castle on a bluff with high stone ramparts over a mile long, peppered with towers equipped with formidable defences. Imagine […]
05-April-2023
LISBON, MARCH 2023 We all know about Henry the Navigator, the Portuguese prince who, in the fifteenth century, started the country’s global trails of discovery. Then […]
30-September-2017
NORTHERN IRELAND, SEPTEMBER 2017 Our trip to Northern Ireland began with a very steep hill, the car gasping up a one in four steel ramp on […]