Leaving everyone to enjoy their first morning beverage, I headed downstairs to play the piano. Unfortunately, the piano-fixing elves had been busy elsewhere, so the piano was still a bit broken. But I adapted my playing a little and worked … Read more
After a pleasant night’s sleep, the sun woke up as it streamed through the gaps in our bedroom curtains, Char texted to let us know she was awake and was ready for her morning coffee. Your scribe is the unofficial … Read more
Our flight left Luton around 9:25am, after a small delay for the cases to be loaded. After a bumpy start, with a little turbulence as we flew through the cloud covering Bedfordshire we had a smooth flight over the Pyrenees … Read more
Having moved our flight time forward to 2pm, we calculated we needed to leave for the airport on the 11am bus. With this in mind, we ate breakfast and packed our little cases. Despite them being small cases that fitted … Read more
Due to the length of time the night parade took to move all the floats along the parade route, we didn’t get back to the airport until after the last bus had returned to the hotel. Consequently, the first thing … Read more
Today is a bit of a red-letter day, and in many respects, the sole reason we visited Holland during April. Spring flowers! To be specific, tulips. Thinking ahead, we’d booked a hire car, knowing the easiest way to travel to … Read more
Our day began with a hearty buffet breakfast. The choice of breakfast items was very different from the Spanish hotels we’ve stayed in elsewhere. They had the usual selection of breads (commonly found in continental hotels), pastries (inc croissant, pain-au-chocolat, … Read more
I’ll skip through the first parts really quickly, strap yourself in, here we go!Arrive at Amsterdam airport, through security, find the free shuttle bus to the hotel (6 mins from the airport), and drop off bags at the hotel. We … Read more
As the well-known phrase goes q “all good things come to an end”, and so must our road trip. Our flight doesn’t take off until 10pm tonight and we are determined to cram in as much as we can between … Read more
