Creativity, curiosity, and code
Tuesday – Historic Cities We woke feeling great and well rested to some glorious Mediterranean sun. Breakfast in the bright and welcoming breakfast room was a delight. A proper Italian cappuccino, pastries and cakes galore, fresh fruit and a selection of cereals. My perfect morning meal. Yummy! After filling up we started exploring, starting with […]
Flying Out Part 3 and we haven’t even left yet. I do waffle!!! An alarm at 5am, a quick rise and off to AirParks Gatwick (booked as part of the package with Expedia). I’m not a connoisseur of airport parking but this seemed fine, other than their new computer system not working at first. But […]
Preparation and Leaving I mentioned before about our booking problems and needing to go on holiday from Monday to Monday. Well, I was busy leading the music at church until about 9pm on Sunday, and our flights were leaving Gatwick at 8am. After some deliberation, we’d booked into the Europa Hotel near Gatwick (cheap, tacky, […]
I know I only just wrote up our last holiday. I probably did that just after we’d booked the one that we just got back from. So I’m determined to write up this one before we book the next. Booking Problems I’m not good at booking holidays anyway, but we were, for various reasons, constrained […]
Finally, I get to drive on the left again, where I belong. We returned yesterday from a week’s holiday in Sicily. This has given me LOTS to write about, from a guide to the things we got up to in Sicily, some advice on using a Satellite Navigation system on the continent, some lessons in […]
Earlier this year we took up Lating and Ballroom classes. We’ve just started it again, so I thought I ought to write a bit about it. Sally told a male colleague of hers at work today that we were going. “He must be very tolerant”, came the response. It’s funny the responses you get about […]
The elders used to speak of it. A strange bright light in the sky. It brought warmth and joy to the people. But the light has not been seen for so long now that it’s existence has been relegated to myth and heresay. It was said that the sky turned blue. That people had to […]
Some will know of my occasional anti-Englishness. Sometimes our over-politeness causes huge complications. My classic example being the “Do you want the last ….?” question, which actually means “I want the last …. ?”. Why don’t we just say what we mean? This has been bugging me a bit lately with people who use phrases […]
Quick note for any regular readers (I think there might be two of you!), I’ve been playing with some technical jiggery-pokery (DNS sub-domain/CNAME entries to be exact) and have managed to make Blogger look like it’s on my own domain. Woo hoo! So, hopefully, regardless of where it’s hosted (this MAY be under review), my […]
Blimey – we’re just about to go on our next hoilday so it’s about time I posted notes on our last! Back at the end of June we went away to Northern Ireland for a week. I took some notes as we went on my electronic organiser but never got round to fleshing them out. […]