Travelling is never time wasted
Travelling will always leave memories, sometimes it is the big, one off, being in a place you have always dreamt of, sometime it’s just little snapshots of the total experience to be captured in an album or an ebook – and sometimes it is the very small details of the place you are in which matter to no one except you. My recent trip to India furnished me with all of the above – the Taj Majal at dawn, arriving at the palace on the lake, an evening ride around Udaipur in a vintage car, these were the easily recalled images which many others have shared. To me however, equally precious are the small things that only I saw and that only I will remember, the drift of evening cooking fire smoke curling into a Delhi sunset, the frantic flurry of parrots chattering to roost in a park, the rough, earthy feel of the terracotta cup containing the most delicious lassi I have ever tasted, all of these are precious too and I want to share at least some of them……….. [Read more…]
There is something very pleasing about leaving from Gatwick on a very cold December morning and a few short hours later emerging, blinking, into a warm and sunny day in Tenerife. The short drive from the airport to the ship was a brief glimpse of arid tufa, spectacular cacti and the odd unremarkable small town but our arrival at Santa Cruz was a thrill as we were swiftly reunited with one of our favourite ships, MS Braemar, docked and waiting for us. [Read more…]
Having recently enjoyed a really good long weekend in Granada I felt, in the name of research, that I should try another! Flights were ideal, hotel looked great and the weather co operated- so off we popped to Palma de Mallorca. [Read more…]
