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 my time there in Stirling Castle. I bought the audio guide which was downloaded via a QR Code to my mobile phone. The commentary was excellent and I thoroughly enjoyed my time in the castle.
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…
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…
This, below, is the view over Chew Valley Lake from the approach road to Nettwood farm where I was staying for the week, commencin Friday, at my usual Lookout Lodge. The featured image shows the Alpcas, which are in the adjoining field and come up to the fence of Lookout lodge and look and sniff…
I went on my annual holiday to my native Somerset in August when Covid restrictions were somewhat relaxed, here are some images from it. First Bristol Suspension Bridge, which I had never seen up close before. On a rainy Wednesday in the city of Wells, I was surprised that they allowed dogs inside Wells Cathedral…
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…
On day three we visited the La Mare Vineyard La Mare Wine Estate in the parish of St Mary at the north of the island. It is set in the peaceful grounds of a traditional 18th-century Jersey granite farmhouse and covers 25-acres. Our guide, Bob, showed us the rows of vines and told us that…