Time to Retire
You wouldn’t imagine a new trailer tyre shredding after just a few hundred miles but as they are cheap rubbish made in China what can you expect? Fortunately we were close to an off ramp and Lorna managed to get … Continue reading →
Extremes
Annapolis is the home to the United States Naval Academy. A big tradition during commissioning week is for midshipmen from the Class of 2018 to complete the final hurdle of their freshman year by scaling the Herndon Monument. Every year, … Continue reading →
Smile Please
As often happens when you’re wandering around a tourist resort or attraction, you are approached and asked if you wouldn’t mind taking a photograph for somebody. Today was no different as we walked along the beach at the Little Island … Continue reading →
Those Brits Again!
St Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United States having been founded on September 8, 1565 by Spanish admiral and Florida’s first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, who named the settlement “San Agustín”, as his … Continue reading →
Quartz Sand
20,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, a voluminous amount of water comprising the world’s oceans were locked up in the great ice caps on the continents. The sea level was at the time hundreds of feet … Continue reading →
Time to Get Moving
Desert Picnic Christmas came and went, so did New Year. Thank goodness all the turkey has been consumed so we don’t need anymore of that for a while. So now what do we do with ourselves we were thinking? A … Continue reading →
Merry Christmas to All
There have not been too many updates of late. Life goes on as usual. A bit of golf. Watching the boat parade around Newport Harbor, California. Baking bread.
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And Now the News
Thinking it was time to check out our house after six years of travelling we gave our tenants notice and then drove back from Portugal at the beginning of August. It felt very strange being in your own house after … Continue reading →
The Silver Coast–Portugal
Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe and has a population of 10.5 million people and is the nation with which Britain enjoys its oldest alliance dating back to the late 1300’s. Stretching from Lisbon in the south to Fiqueira … Continue reading →