For years I've been bugging my dad to do some travelling and in the past couple of years he has actually taken the time to do so. It didn't surprise me that he soon decided to start planning a bigger trip, what I think of as his dream trip. He told me this would include visiting our family in Ontario, Canada but also involve crossing the border to visit New England during the Fall. After his telling me this in the beginning of 2013 I soon invited myself with hi...

Tuesday 30th September 2014- Mashpee, Cape Cod USA Before leaving home dad and I had talked about catching some sports games while over here. Unfortunately we missed everything by like a day or two. We had hoped to do a Red Sox game as they were actually at home the weekend we arrived in Cape, but typically it was their last home series of this season and it was a 'local' derby. Crazy tickets prices so we had to give it a miss. Dad did get us tickets for a Brui...

My Dream Trip!!!! So a little background to begin with...after my first trip abroad to visit family when I was 17, I realised that I may want to see something of the world. The original two places on this list were New Zealand and Western Canada. I'm not too sure what it is that speaks to me about these places but for 8 years they remained at the top of my destination wish list- in fact, they are still there! In between my first few trips abroad I would always ...

A year after our first visit to Egypt, Jill and I were off again. This time on a Red Sea Magic cruise but with a one week all inclusive stay in Sharm el Sheikh before once again joining the Thomson Celebration. We flew from Bournemouth and arrived at our hotel 'The Nubian Island' after dark with Jill already testing out her Arabic. La Shukran (No, thank you) being the most used during our stay I believe ...Though we both had a soft spot for Filmishmish ( a sayin...

One of the major plus points of the company I work for is the amount of holiday allowance I get- It's huge, after having been there so long. So in 2012 when home was the last place I wanted to be, I ended up away every single time I had vacation time! This included 4 different trips abroad and another week spent in the Lake District with my dad. Soon after returning from Tenerife I again felt the urge to just get away so I started looking at dirt cheap holi...