Welcome to Hawkes & Brown's Holiday

After breakfast (which was yummy), we headed back to the station and off to Malaga. It’s a really easy journey from here and is only 25 minutes door to door. Again, being a bit brief, we started at the main … Read more

This is going to be a very brief account.The flight began with a lady across the aisle needing the maintenance crew to dismantle her seat and replace her defective seatbelt. This took about 15 minutes and made the lead stewardess … Read more

We had a great day today. It really was what can only be described as a quintessential beach holiday day. In brief, blue sky, sea, sand, sun and naked geriatrics. Yes dear reader, it turns out that German and Spanish … Read more

My birthday! (Thanks Dan for the birthday greetings, shame on you Sophie for forgetting! LOL.)  After breakfast we needed to be outside the front of the hotel for 09:15hrs, for our pickup by the buggie tour company. When we arrived … Read more

We all woke early. Although, not strictly true. Char and I woke early but due to being in separate rooms weren’t aware of the other. I did my workout and Char read. Lizzy snoozed until way after we’d boiled the … Read more

(Brief) we eventually arrived at hotel after a coach connection of approx 75mins. Hotel large and sprawling. Nine accommodation blocks, three bars, inside and outside stage for entertainment. But at this time of year too dark for outside evening entertainment … Read more

As you look at a map of Naples, the island of Procida is many miles to the left just above it’s larger brother Isola d’Ischia. It’s a tiny island, less than 2 miles square and covered with a network of … Read more

We travelled right down the coast to Sorrento, a beautiful small costal town. It was packed with coach loads of tourists which caused the small streets to slow to an amble, rather than the brisk pace we’d been maintaining on … Read more

If you’re anything like me, you won’t have considered just how vast Pompeii was. It wasn’t a small village which was over run by the volcano, it was a huge city. To walk around the city’s ruins took us four … Read more

Today we explored Naples and took a mega step challenge, climbing a staggering 500 steps up 50 flights of cobbled steps to ascend to the top of one of the biggest hills surrounding the city. Half way up we were … Read more