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Why camping in the Algarve beats the resorts. Camping is not my thing. I like space, real beds and more than a sliver of material between me and my neighbours. On a recent trip to the Algarve I decided to test the relative merits of a campsite versus a luxury hotel. Four nights in a two-man tent at Camping Olhao. The campsite has pitches for 400 tent.
Please join me on my travels, experiences and happenings. Monday, December 29, 2014. On Christmas Day Joshua woke us up excited to get to see what Santa had delivered. He is six years old and believes absolutely! Petra also told me she is a baker. She handed them over and wished us all a Merry Christmas! Look left and right and left again! .
I joined a tour run by the Huguenot Society around the streets where the weavers and cloth merchants lived. Textiles, Language and Metaphor.
The diary of a journey round the Greek Islands. Wednesday, June 08, 2011. Caiques in the Greek Islands. I very much enjoyed it, relished it loitering, laid-back style of writing as of travelling, and learnt a great deal from it along the way. Harry Bucknall carries us by magic flights from the thousand birds of Saint Mark to the far distant Symplegades.
Left Loch Lomond after talking to Ivan and learning that he and Jas have definitely bought the house in Auckland. Great news! October 8, 2012.
Nine Summers to the Nile. The Edge of Europe-Sept 1989. A last look behind the Iron Curtain. A Walk from Toul to the Tiber. Nine Summers to the Nile. Mediterranean Passages of Penguin II. The Alpine Diary of Robert Johnson-aged 69. A Walk from Vienna to Venice. A journey from Genoa to Ghent. Fifty Days on the Spanish Main.
Stories from the near and distant past. Wednesday, January 27, 2010. An outline of the life of the early nineteenth-century figure Francis Hare-Naylor resembles the plot of a Romance novel. A handsome boy, heir to an astonishing fortune and. And then, by settling it on her own children, disinherits Francis and his brother.