"Salaam Malekum" & Greetings from Marrakech ...!!!!.. We arrived into Manchester airport from Luxor at 2230hrs on the 20th Jan. though it was past midnight before we got thru. customs....Unfortunately we were booked into the Cresta Court Hotel in Altrincham for the 21st. & were not able to check in till 1400hrs...so we decided to spend the rest of the night at the airport as comfortably as possible before catching the first bus to the hotel in ...

We caught the 2208hrs. train from St. Annes on Sea for Manchester airport on the 11th Jan... Our flight to Egypt was at 0945hrs.the next morning,so after a somewhat chilly & sleepless night of using the seating at the arrivals floor in terminal 1 we were extremely happy to be the first to check in for the 5hr approx. Thomas Cook flight TCX525K to Luxor....We boarded our boat the MS Nile Saray in the evening & checked in to our fairly comfortable twin bed ...

We caught the 2208hrs. train from St. Annes on Sea for Manchester airport on the 11th Jan... Our flight to Egypt was at 0945hrs.the next morning,so after a somewhat chilly & sleepless night of using the seating at the arrivals floor in terminal 1 we were extremely happy to be the first to check in for the 5hr approx. Thomas Cook flight TCX525K to Luxor....We boarded our boat the MS Nile Saray in the evening & checked in to our fairly comfortable twin bed ...

"Belated Christmas Greetings" ...to all our family,friends & blog readers ..!!..Too much X'mas goodies .. turkey,mince pies,Christmas pudding & cake etc. and not forgetting the mulled wine & odd whiskey...!!..Guilt got the better of us so we walked to Blackpool(9.5kms) & back along the snowcovered beach on Boxing day,only to start all over again with a mulled wine..!! ..Yum..!! ..Another pleasant walk along the beach is south from St. An...

"Two weeks to Christmas"....Who's counting..??..Considering Songhi & i would have been in the far north of Scotland at this time we are extremely fortunate to have been able to postpone that trip to April next year.....We'd probably be snowed in somewhere & miss out on the turkey & X'mas pudding with the Watts family at home in Lancashire....Anyhow,being grounded & snowed in at home does have it's advantages we guess....Apart from Song b...