Month: May 2006
Scotland
On Friday we drove to the little town of Drymen near Loch Lomond. We started by having a good look at the shops in Hawkshead – the shopping capital for outdoor gear in England. They had some excellent gear including the same Tilley Hats that I once bought in Banff on our trip to Canada. […]
Read MoreLake District
it seemed that the cities of Manchester, Blackpool and Liverpool didn’t have much to offer other than traffic congestion and frustration so we bypassed these noteworthy places and drove straight to the Lake District. So, the Beatles and Cilla Black will just have to wait for another time. Ruth Minahan had suggested a B&B in […]
Read MoreCotswalds & Wales
We left Bath early on Monday morning (May 22) and headed for the Cotswolds which we understood to be very scenic. The hedgerows had to some degree been replaced by stone fences in this area, although not completely. The countryside was very green and pretty with the rolling hills and green colours of the woods […]
Read MoreBath
We left our hotel in Plymouth yesterday morning and had a quick look at the old area of the town known as the Barbican. This was one area that wasn’t bombed by the Germans in WW II and seems to be the equivalent of the Rocks in Sydney (except thast it is four hundred years […]
Read MoreLondon to Portsmouth
So far, we have been travelling around England for three days and it is clear that we will only get a very superficial look at the country in the time that we have available. I am also very pleased that I bought my pocket GPS – it just makes driving so much easier! I am […]
Read MoreStopover in Hong Kong
We left Melbourne. at 11.00 pm on Sunday night feeling very sorry for the people who were delayed on a flght to Auckland. They were mostly business people who would have been looking forward to a sleep before starting work there on Monday morning. Their flight, scheduled to leave at 7.30 pm, was now not […]
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