Well, Off Exploring is failing me dismally! Third time lucky with this entry I hope. On Monday (1st July), Richard and I left Madrid for Granada. My last blog I think showed a photo of the cathedral in Granada. On Tuesday morning we headed out like mountain goats to get to the Alhambra, roughly 2klms completely uphill. Once we caught our breath, we were treated to the most amazing display of Moorish architecture in the Nasrid palace and other areas, and the bea...

Heading out on our own for a few days, Jeannie, Jim, Dylan, Nathan and Carmen off to Murcia to meet Carmen's family and a swim in beach! We meet up again in Barcelona on Wednesday. We arrived in Granada this afternoon after a medium speed train ride from Madrid. A daunting start, absolutely no-one and I mean no-one spoke English! Even in a tourist zone, like the main rail station, no tourist booth. The lady on the booth checking us through to the train eventua...

Well! Finally time to up all on our travels. Singapore after we left Bali on 27th and 28th June. My first time in Singapore so quite an eye opener. We met up with good friends of Andre and Patricia's in Stephan, Sharon, Sean and Sheena. Lovely family. Bade Andre and Patricia a sad farewell in Singapore too, they are off to KL for a week. Dick, Jeannie, Jim, Nathan and I continued onto Madrid, via and unscheduled stop in Colombo (WTF???) which left us very lit...

Morning all, Our last full day in Bali, Necitha and Scotts wedding later on this afternoon. Another quiet day yesterday once again traipsing around the streets of Kuta, an afternoon on the beach. Fantastic surf!

Morning all, sorry no blogs over the past few days, the WIFI keeps dropping in and out making it frustrating! Anyway, hopefully on here early enough. Sunday we had Necitha's hens do and all ended up at the Taro elephant park, a really lovely place. A very noisy ride up to Taro, bums in the air in some poor farmers fields for an impromptu toilet stop, and an elephant ride completed a lovely day, thanks PJ. Yesterday a coffee at Cafe Moka in Seminyak followed by l...