With much better weather today we managed to dodge all the showers and even had a swim and a sun bathe after going to see the Kiwis in their special nocturnal house where they were very active poking around with their long beaks like blind men with white sticks. there was an adjoining heritage museum with some nice settler…
Well the rain definitely arrived overnight! We enjoyed a scenic drive north through the lush green rain forest and the most rolling of rolling farm land to Whangerai - New Zealand's most northerly city. On the way we paused for coffee at a scenic car park overlooking an estuary when two vehicles pulled up, a couple of…
Thought you might like to see my family Facebook blog of the trip we are currently enjoying to New Zealand's North Island I'll start with Day 1 We had a great day in Singapore, what a place it is! A group of young Malaysian women stopped me I thought they wanted me to take their photo for them, turned out they wanted to…
To read the story with annotated pictures please see my blog Blog post here Herself and I have a an occasion coming up this spring, and this occasion is getting in the way of caravan adventures over both the Easter and May Day weekends. This had been troubling me somewhat, so when Herself mentioned that we may get away in…
I have been camping, caravanning, and motor homing for more years than I care to remember. It started out when my late parents decided to buy a motor bike and side car tent etc. and pop me in the side car and off we went. Of course I don't have any recollection of this I'm just going by the stories my parents told me about…
Nightingales - thank you for the music! Adrian Thomas, RSPB #SaveLodgeHill project manager, reflects on the inspiration that Nightingale song has brought to composers and musicians across the ages. Last year, I was fortunate enough to spend time alone with a Nightingale in full song. It was dark, and the blackbirds had…
Because we tend to have a couple of trips abroad a year we often don’t get time to spend a couple of weeks exploring the UK. This year was a bit different as we had a wedding in the middle of September which rather prevented us getting abroad. So in early October we set off on a two week tour that took in Somerset and…
We have enjoyed 33 years of holidays together since we first met, so how did we end up with a caravan. NOTE. If you want to read this blog post with pictures you can follow this link https://inpursuitofadream.com/2017/01/29/why-we-bought-a-caravan/ We both left school in 1983 aged 16 and started work at McDonalds, Bolton…
Somewhere, lost on the old story section was a short tale of a visit to NT Stourhead. Since it's not far from where we live and we visit quite often I thought a visit on a nice frosty morning might be a good idea. Some had mentioned the new CL at Stourhead so I thought I'd take a look at that too. Luckily the Stourhead…
I expect some of you will be heading for the CC Longleat site over the festive season. It's well worth seeing the annual Festival of Light. This year we joined our son and family for an evening visit to Longleat. They had a season ticket this year as they live nearby and we bought twilight tickets. This gave us entry from…
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