Crete, was next up on our holiday travels and what a fabulous country to visit! The people, food, cafes, beaches, and hikes if you are eager, are just wonderful. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to anyone. But it’s hot! Andrew’s sister Joe, and her man Will joined us for the 10-day sojourn, which was …
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Yet more holiday rantings …
Hello France, hello beautiful weather, hello expanding waistline! Flying into Toulouse our destination was a village called Najac which is about 1.5 hours away. The reason for our trip was to meet another blogging friend, Annette. The motorways in France are well signed which is great, however their speed limit is 130 km which hubby …
Holiday rantings
So much for me posting more regularly …what nonsense! I do have an excuse though, we have been away overseas for the past month seeing family, friends and bloggers! Trust me, I’m no travel writer so I seriously hope that I won’t bore you with my holiday rantings. Arriving at Heathrow airport at a sensible …
Holiday Samoa
You know that holiday I mentioned? We arrived back from our sojourn in Samoa, slightly tanned, refreshed and weighing a bit more … That’s one of the downsides of holidaying. For a few days the weather was reminiscent of Auckland and we needed an umbrella to get about. But on Tuesday we hauled the curtains back to a bright …
Tonga
I haven’t posted in ages and I’m berating myself for this, although we did sneak off to Foiata island which is in Tonga for a week. A truly wonderful place – remote and tropical, somewhere to kick back and relax, soak up those rays (with suntan lotion slathered on of course), snorkel, swim with the whales and enjoy …
Pretty as a picture
Aussie here I come! I’m off tomorrow to visit friends and family in Melbourne and I’m excited. And it just so happens that I’m having a one on one session with a fantastic photographer – Leanne Cole while I’m there too! How good is that! I was particularly bad last week and didn’t do a post. Shameful …
The Fiji Adventure
My first post for 2014 isn’t going to be about my garden at all. Naughty me. But we did go to Fiji for a few days for a very special friend’s 80th birthday. And then we did absolutely nothing .. PS … did we take some Toi Toi with us? Of course we did …