Why I Hate Shopping!GiftsShopping and About Town by Mr C - March 23, 2018April 24, 2018 I've always hated shopping. I don't think I'm alone amongst men either. The very thought of going into town with the sole objective of 'shopping’ brings me out in a cold sweat. No, for me there has to be a sole purpose, a project, a single product to buy, or in an extreme case a few products. Nowadays it's even less necessary to venture onto
Hong Kong2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - December 17, 2017April 24, 2018 Hong Kong was to be our final fling - the last stop on our round-the-world jaunt, so as we boarded our plane in Singapore we were both excited, but at the same time a little melancholy at it being our last port of call.After a slightly bumpy landing at Hong Kong airport we hopped on to the Airport Express train for the quick run into
Singapore2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - December 4, 2017April 24, 2018 There are a couple of definites in Singapore. Heat and humidity is one and high-end shopping as far as the eye can see is the other. These were exactly the same when I first visited Singapore way back in the late 70s, but back then there was also still an enormous amount of character. Lots of the old buildings were still standing and it was
Melbourne and St Kilda2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - November 17, 2017April 24, 2018 Our whistle-stop tour of the Southern Hemisphere took us to the Melbourne area next. Melbourne, Australia's second city has been voted 'The Best City in the World’ to live recently and from a cakes point of view at least, we get it!Before we settled down to a week of chilling, we hired a car for a couple of days and took ourselves off onto the
New Zealand – North Island2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - November 8, 2017April 24, 2018 How were we to top the last few days? What was North Island going to offer? Could it possibly get any better? South Island gave us some of the most impressive, most beautiful and most ‘awesome’ scenery we’ve ever seen. Auckland airport greeted us with grey skies and a cold southerly wind and after a complete fiasco with our car rental booking we were out
Route 66 – Over the Hump2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - October 14, 2017June 19, 2018 Gallup was an unremarkable pivotal point in our Route 66 journey. Our trip switched from a westerly route to a northerly diversion off route. It had been our intention all along to head up into Utah to see the landscapes that had featured on so many books, films, album covers, postcards etc..It's funny how different it becomes leaving one of the main trunk roads and
Route 66 – The Middle Bit2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - October 1, 2017May 20, 2022 Oklahoma behind us, we got back onto Route 66 to see what 'the middle bit' had to offer. An overnight stop in Elk City on the western fringes of Oklahoma was the start of our journey over the plains; miles and miles of flat, straight roads with nothing to see from horizon to horizon except for an occasional grain silo and rows and rows of
The Italian Lakes2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - June 10, 2017August 21, 2017 Somewhere around 10pm our EasyJet flight landed at Milan Malpensa and we hopped onto the hotel shuttle taking us to our overnight home, the Crowne Plaza. The single receptionist did a very good job of ushering our bus full of arrivals to their rooms in record time. Ours was actually quite a nice room, but having been up and about most of the day we
Agia Pelagia, Heraklion and more2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - June 1, 2017August 2, 2017 Santorini had come to an end and it was time to say goodbye to the precipitous cliffs and azure waters and to board a ferry southwards to Heraklion and onwards to Agia Pelagia. It’s only a two hour crossing on the fast ferry down to Crete and these Hellenic Seaways fast ferries are very comfortable, with airline type seating, a café bar, TV, good clean
Splendid Santorini2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - May 30, 2017January 29, 2022 Santorini conjures up lots of images of white stone, blue roof buildings perched precariously on precipitous cliffs overlooking a gigantic water-filled crater.So, we were excited about our forthcoming visit, especially as the reason for the visit was to be there for our daughter’s wedding in Santorini. It was also going to be as part of a much bigger trip that was going to take in