Travel Adventures

I was unable to post a blog post yesterday because my internet was being picky but I39ll try my best to post for yesterday and todayYesterdayI went grocery shopping with Selah and Hope. I mostly bought vegetables broccoli cauliflower lettuce tomatoes cucumbers bananas and peaches. I ate a peach and had a salad with olive oil and vinegar as dressing for lunch my first meal that I ma

Tommorrow I leave early for the train. I have to admit after being lost in the train station when I got here I am more than a little worried about a repeat. I can39t afford to miss my train tomorrow. Remember this is the train to Irun walk to Hundai and train to Bayonne and then bus to St. Jean Pied de Port. My train leaves at 735 am and I arrive in St. Jean at the same timeish in the pm. The

Monday 10thJune 2013. Well here we are back in the big west island. Our first two nights in the Midland Budget Motel were fine fortunately we werent expecting anything flash and we werent disappointed. The rooms though were perfectly adequate clean and recently renovated. All accommodation is expensive here in Perth. These units were attached to the Commercial Tavern a workingmans pu

We started out the winter cruising season of 2013 in the Bay Islands of Honduras. We sailed from Guatemala to Isla de Roatan where we met up with our friends Greg and Willena on sv Kajun Diva. We did an island shuffle during the winter months along with Kajun Diva between West End Roatan French Cay Harbor Roatan and the island of Utila leaving each harbor whenever the weather changed. West En

Great couple days in Paris with our Youngsters We have been crazy busy. Our first day we were jet lagged so we struggled a bit with energy but saw so much. We visited Notre Dame and enjoyed a lovely uphill walking tour of Paris. We all basically crashed last night and woke up fresh this morning. Today we had a relaxed morning and enjoyed breakfast of French baguettes and got chocolate and then he

In Vicksburg MS Kota waoke up at 1040AM wanting to go to the pool. We all made the pool and then Aleta went to the casino while Shelby Dakota and Briar went to the Vicksburg Military Park renamed to be politically correct I guess. Aleta made her donation and returned to the motorhome. Shelby Dakota and Briar enjoyed the park the cannons the monuments the Cairo an ironclad whic

Today we went to Windsor Castle Bath and Stonehenge. We went in a big bus with lots of other people. First we went to Windsor Castle. The Queen was there and Dad thought he saw her There were heaps of people and we had to wait for nearly an hour to get into the castle then we had to go around quickly so we made it back to our bus on time. We saw Queen Mary39s Dolls House which is huge it ha

What a busy day today we got up after a hot night we don39t have air conditioning in our room and since we arrived the temp has been in the mid 2039s We were able to walk to one of the starting points of the hop on hop off bus that we had tickets for so hopped on about 9.30 and set off.we went past the Natural History Science Museums and Harrods we just stayed on the bus until we got

Bright early we I mean the car climbed up the steep cliffs of Meteora to the Monasteries. Built in the 13th14th centuries they hang periously close to various cliff edges. I don39t know how they did it The monks fled to the monasteries to escape persecution from the Ottoman Empire. Even so many were martyred for their faith. We visited 4 of the 6 monasteries that are open to visitors. O

19 June 2013Bled on a sunny day is one of the most picturesque places you could hope to see with its vivid blue lake surrounded by craggy mountains castle on top of a large rock bluff and island surmounted with a beautiful church. It was a fitting finale to this trip.Our day consisted of a walk along the quiet north shore a climb up to the castle a sandwich lunch sitting under the shade of an o