Year: 2014
2014 – My Year in Numbers
It’s fun to look back at the end of the year and see just what you have accomplished. This year, I tries to quantify some of the things that have happened in my life. The attached infographic doesn’t include everything; just those things that are easy to measure. This was my year in 2014
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Christmas is Over
This year is just about over and it’s almost the New Year. We have packed away our Christmas decorations and our house is back to normal again. This Christmas was a little different for us but very enjoyable. We began by attending the carols service at our church on Christmas Eve. It was a speculator […]
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The End (of the year) is Nigh!
It’s obvious that the year is drawing to a close. We seem enmeshed in a series of frenetic ‘wind-up’ activities – each one is very pleasurable, but they just seem endless in their frequency. The school that our grand daughter, Audrey, attends has just had a very successful fair as an end of the year […]
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Visiting My Old Army Unit in Brisbane
I flew up to Brisbane yesterday afternoon to visit my old Army unit (85 Transport Troop) after an invitation from the Commander of 26 Transport Squadron to present a copy of my Vietnam diary to the unit. My flight up was non-eventful other than some dumb passenger had not boarded the plane and we were […]
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To Essex and The Tower
Saturday saw us travelling to Essex with Barbara and David. They organised the day for us in return for me showing them around Melbourne when they visited a year or so ago. We caught the train from Liverpool Street Station to Chelmsford where they live and after meeting us at the station, we headed first […]
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London
The rain had cleared overnight so after breakfast yesterday we walked up to the shops in High Street, Kensington. They are much they same as I remember. We passed a construction site where a new block of luxury apartments has been under construction for a few years now. On our first visit to London, this […]
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London – Lunch with Peter & Julian
We have planned our next few days in London as time for catching up with friends and people we know. It was a cool day today and cloudy. It had rained overnight and by lunch time some drizzle had set in. It seemed to be a typical Autumn day with people wearing jackets and coats. […]
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The Gardens at Manoir d’Erignac
This was or last day in France. We had all day to get to the airport at Bordeaux from where our flight to London left at 7.30 pm. We thought that we could use some of the time by driving north to the town of Erignac to seem some rather beautiful gardens. They were large and […]
Read MoreDordogne River and Lot River Areas
Over the last few days, we have done quite a bit of exploring. We have already visited most of the popular places near Sarlat, so over the last two days we have extended our travels a little further to some more distant towns. The highlight of our day yesterday, was a visit to Rocomadour, which […]
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The Saturday Market in Sarlat
We awoke today to find the Saturday market in Sarlat in full swing. With the benefit of double glazed windows, we had not heard a thing, yet right below our window was a man selling flowers and across the road another man was selling paella that he was cooking in five enormous pans. We knew […]
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Old Towns and Chateaux
This morning we set out to explore a group of towns along the Dordogne River that are only 12 or 15 kms away from our hotel. It was a cold morning with the temperature sitting at only 5C when we left and it was quite foggy. Along the river, visibility was rather poor which was […]
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Sarlat La Caneda
We are staying in the remarkable town of Sarlat La Caneda, one of the larger centres in the Dordogne River area of France. I think this town holds the reputation of being one of the most intact medieval towns in all of France. It is superbly scenic with a maze of little streets, hidden squares […]
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