Chicago – The Windy City2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - September 26, 2021October 28, 2022 After a night spent on the outskirts of Detroit in the Hilton Garden Inn in Novi, it was time to venture even further west to Chicago. The journey down through Michigan State was quite entertaining, with us marvelling at place names like Climax, in Kalamazoo County, Sprinkle, Springfield (about the fourth one of those since Cape Cod… and still no Homer Simpson!), Valparaiso and Gary.This was
Narrowboat Life – Peace and Quiet On The CanalTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 “Elliot! ELLIOT!! Pull it in! No! Not there you idiot! The other one!” - Crunch…. “Oh, for God’s sake… PULL! No, not that way!”Meanwhile, poor Elliot has no idea what the objective is. He just happened to be there at the wrong time and is now at the receiving end of his Dad’s wrath. He can’t really hear him properly anyway because the boat’s engine
Ever Heard Of A Roof Tent?Travel, Holidays and Hotels by Mrs C - September 19, 2019September 19, 2019 As you all know by now, Mr and Mrs C love travelling. So much so that we took a year out back in 2017 to travel around the world. What a year that was, experiencing life in so many countries. Mr C had wanted to do Route 66 since he was a child so that was number one on the bucket list. We stayed in
Our Summer Holidays 2018Travel, Holidays and Hotels by Mrs C - September 12, 2018April 28, 2021 This year Mr and Mrs C had a busy old Summer, including a river cruise in France, Yorkshire by Rail and ... Well read on ...It's September already and John Lewis has already filmed its Christmas advert. Elton John and Your Song apparently. The budget for the pre-publicity advertising the upcoming advert must be phenomenal. Remember this one? I'm no dog lover but it even
A Devon and Cornwall HolidayTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - May 31, 2018May 31, 2018 It's a funny old place to get to, Cornwall. We commented this morning when getting from Polperro to Mawnan Smith how easy it is to take a road that you think is right and then end up getting dead-ended on some promontory somewhere with only a chain ferry that runs twice a day. That's part of the attraction of a Devon and Cornwall holiday.Whichever way
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
Penang – Malaysia2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mrs C - November 30, 2017April 24, 2018 Before we started this round of our travels, we'd decided that we were going to make our visit to Malaysia more of a 'beach break’ than another marathon week of sight-seeing. So before we even arrived in Penang, we were already feeling pretty chilled and relaxed. The flights from Sydney to Singapore and then Singapore to Penang were uneventful and our pre-booked taxi was already waiting
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
Sydney – Australia2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mrs C - November 10, 2017September 6, 2022 Auckland to Sydney, just three hours separates them but the difference between the two countries is apparent from the minute you land. New Zealand, stunning as it is, is quiet and chilled. If it was a colour, it would be muted tones and conservative in nature. Sydney, Australia, on the other hand, though similarly relaxed, would be bright orange or pink, and loud, very loud!Sydney's