Somerset Holiday

When on my annual holiday in my home county of Somerset, I always enjoy my day in Wells. I usually meet my friend of 70 years, John, whom I met at infant school in Timsbury. We meet on Wednesday, which is Market Day in Wells and we enjoy the market and lunch. Another pleasure of…

On my recent coach trip to Pitlochry the other passengers and I had a day out in Perth in the morning and Dundee in the afternoon. I visited Discovery Point in Dundee, where the ship RSS Discovery is moored. I visited the Discovery Point museum exploring all 11 galleries, and 9 audio-visual film shows with…

I have been doing my family tree, concentrating on my paternal side. My grandmother, Rose, was an Emmett from Longridge in Lancashire. She was daughter of John Emmett and Alice Chapman. In a stroke of serandipity a DNA match with a man living in Canada, threw up clues to my Gran’s maternal family which I…

On my recent coach trip to Pitlochry the other passengers and I were given the opportunity to see the Queen’s View in Highland Perthshire, which overlooks Loch Tummel and is said to have been named after Queen Victoria, following her visit to the area in 1866. Looking down the loch, the mountains of Glencoe are…

I was on a short holiday in Grasmere and it was raining cats and dogs. Like lots of others (on a fine day they get 2 or 4 for the tour) I came in out of the rain and went on a tour of the slate mine. There were two parties of about 30 each…

I went on a Cairngorm Travel coach holiday based in the Duke of Gordon hotel, Kingussie with Leyland u3a. There were thirty-seven of members on the Kingussie holiday so the coach was allocated just to our group. For both outward and return journeys we stopped at Moffat for lunch with an additional stop at the…