Honister Slate Mine

On day one we had a full Island tour and our driver was the knowledgeable Sean, originally from Yorkshire – but we did not hold that against him.  There are twelve parishes of Jersey (Les pâraisses dé Jèrri), all have access to the sea and share a name with their ancient parish churches.  We must…

I was unable to get a decent photograph of the stone circle because of its size and I could not get any closer. They are situated in the small village of Stanton Drew, not too far from East Harptree where I stayed. It is the third largest complex of prehistoric standing stones in England. Unlike…

On my first full day in Slovenia, Vlado took me to see the Ski slopes as Planica. We then went to see the Bled Castle, which overlooks Bled Lake.  We each had a helping of the lovely Bled Cream Cake in the castle café.  Vlado drove South to the spectacular Postojna caves from which I…

On my recent coach trip to Pitlochry my fellow passengers and I had a day out in Stirling.  the last time I was there was in 1968 when my late Scottish wife and I were ‘courting’ and had a day out there. I could not remember much of it from then but spent most of…

Thanks to our organisers our arrangements for our first Leyland U3A holiday went flawlessly – it was even arranged the added excitement of our coach to Liverpool airport getting a puncture just before Charnock Richard services.  We were able to pull in to the services and a replacement coach came within 30 minutes and we…