NOTE: Yes, we have been home for a week. Just catching up on the blog. Knowing that we would be sitting down for a long, l-o-n-g time from mid-afternoon today we decided that we should take a decent...

NOTE: During the night I have come down with a head cold (very bad timing!) so after visiting the sites listed I don’t have the energy to write the travel diary properly. I might write it enroute...

Today is a public holiday which I think is a necessity after last night’s festivities. Fireworks were being let off until well after midnight celebrating St John’s Night and the Shortest Night of the year,...

… and this morning Bernie worked out how the exterior roller shutters at our apartment worked! It would have been good to know that on Thursday and then we could have had the shutters down to keep the...