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4 September 2013
After a nice cooked breakfast, we got ourselves ready leisurely and left the B&B around 1030. The weather was very wet and miserable. As we circumambulated the island to get back to Tarbert, the scenery changed from the weird moonscape rock/tussock/water near the B&B, to soft peaty earth further along and some beautiful white beaches […]
3 September 2013
Breakfast at the hotel starts at 0730 but we were let in for the Continental selection at 0715 so we could set off in time for the ferry for the Isles of Harris & Lewis. We had beautiful canned grapefruit and mandarins to go with muesli, plus ham and cheese to go on our toast. […]
2 September 2013
Above: Eilean Donan castle on our drive approaching Skye. Leaving Istanbul It is my birthday today and I’m flying to Edinburgh to meet Kim. The airport shuttle collected me at 0600; I had to check it was going to Ataturk Airport rather than Sabiha Gokcen just to be safe! I like Ataturk because is much closer, […]
24 July 2011
Above: Flying near the Tibetan Plateau, 40,000 feet doesn’t seem so high. It was a 0440 wake up for the 0830 Air New Zealand flight from Hong Kong to London Heathrow. I caught the last “Night Bus” to the airport at 0510 but I should have slept for 15 minutes longer and caught the 0530 […]
5 September 2009
We met a former colleague of mine, Catherine for lunch today at a Malaysian restaurant Jom Makan just off Trafalgar Square. Mmmm, very yummy. Then we met friends of Kim at a wine bar before going to a West End show. It was my very first time at a London show despite my previous visits. […]
4 September 2009
With the time change from New Zealand to the UK, day is night and night is day. We’ve previously found that if we stay up till about 6pm then getting a good night sleep, our body clocks will be more or less fine in a couple of days. That’s our way of putting our right […]
21 August 2007
Above: Bad photo of wind farms in the sea north of the United Kingdom. We reached the United Kingdom from the north, spotting some wind farms in the sea. We landed at Heathrow about 1100 and took the tube to our hotel, the Cromwell Crown. Having been to London in recent years, there was no […]
22 June 2004
Above: Dog walker on the streets of London. Morning in London Today we will hopefully fly to Los Angeles and then to Auckland. With departure at 1615, we had some time to spend in London. Breakfast at the hotel around 0830 was a pleasant continental but the star of the buffet for me was the […]
21 June 2004
We landed at Gatwick around 1700 and took the slow train into London for GBP8 instead of the Gatwick Express which cost about 50% more but only saved 3 minutes journey time. In London, we had booked to stay at the modest Stuart Hotel where we had stayed less than a year ago. But they […]
6 June 2004
With the somewhat diametrically opposite time-zone from New Zealand, I woke at 0400, as I did yesterday. Fortunately, I was able to sleep again till 0800 unaided, whereas yesterday I needed half a sleeping pill. We lazed at Wendy’s place till around 1100 before driving to my sister’s place in Downham Market for lunch. Mike […]