Isle of Man – Peel

We spent the Monday in Ljubljana, commencing with crossing the Butcher’s Bridge on which many “love padlocks” adorn the bridge, placed there by lovers as token of their love. After that we went to the old town and on the way called into the Ljubljana Roman Cathedral of St Nicholas (katedrala Ljubljana), like the other…

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…

During my annual holiday in Somerset in May 2022, I visited St James Church in Cameley – about 5 miles from my home village of Timsbury and on the edge of the Mendips.  It has an impressive fifteenth-century tower built of red Mendip sandstone with a handsome parapet and the rest of the church built…

On my second day I drove through Aberfeldy to Kenmore where I took the photos of Loch Tay and some picturesque houses in that small village.  I journeyed on down Loch Tay and returned via Lochearnhead and Crieff, which was a more ‘central belt’ town than I previously imagined.

Two friends, Gillean and Irene, and I with our dogs, Maisie (mine) and Mitzi (Gillean’s) had a short holiday in Largs in July.  I drove and we stayed at the Woodhouse Hotel in Largs.  When we were there a son of Largs, Sam Torrance, a famous golfer came into the lounge and as you can…