New York over Thanksgiving Day 4

Day 4 Before we could do anything, today we needed to pack our cases and check out of the room. We’d been really happy with the Martinque on Broadway as a base. We made use of their left luggage service, grabbed a coffee and donut each from the street seller outside and walked down 6th […]

New York over Thanksgiving: Day 3

Day 3 We were up fairly early and decided to walk to the Intrepid Air and Space Museum. It was lovely walk of around an hour – public transport obviously available instead. The Intrepid Museum was brilliant. We loved the submarine museum and being on the aircraft hanger was fab. We saw Concorde and also […]

New York over Thanksgiving Day 2

Thanksgiving Day Our alarm was set for 5am although in reality we were both wide awake at 4am – a combination of excitement and jet lag. We were up and out of our hotel by 5.45am, keen to get the prime viewing spot for the parade. I instantly started worrying – the streets were packed […]

New York over Thanksgiving Day 1

Day 1 | Wednesday We landed at the airport at 9am. Despite it being the day before Thanksgiving, the queues were minimal and we were through and reunited with our case within 40 minutes. We took the Air train to Jamaica and the the Long island train to Penn Station. this cost $15 combined and […]

Adventures in America; a Founding Fathers and American Civil War Roadtrip. Part 5 The Shenandoah National Park

Friday “Almost heaven, West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River Life is old there, older than the trees Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze Country roads, take me home To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain mama Take me home, country roads” ~ John Denver I actually lost count of the amount […]

Adventures in America; a Founding Fathers and American Civil War Roadtrip. Part 5 Virginian Vineyards and Monticello

We arrived at Monticello, on the outskirts of Charlottesville early afternoon after an easy drive from the east coast of Jamestown. Monticello is well known as it was where Thomas Jefferson lived – nowadays it is a UNESCO world heritage site. It is perched up on a hillside and as such offers the most spectacular […]

Adventures in America; a Founding Fathers and American Civil War Roadtrip. Part 4 Virginia

Tuesday We waved goodbye to our home from home in Washington DC bright and early, we were heading south into the large state of Virginia for a few days. Our first stop this morning was Mount Vernon, George Washington’s family home. Mount Vernon is situated about half an hour outside of Washington and the large […]

Adventures in America; a Founding Fathers and American Civil War Roadtrip. Part 2 the Battle of Gettysburg

We arrived at Gettysburg late afternoon, following a simple journey west on interstate 76 from Philadelphia. Our accommodation for the night was a basic but perfectly fine Super 8 Motel on the edge of town, a simple Uber journey away into the main town. We freshened up and made our way into town, heading for […]

Ariba Mexico! 🇲🇽

We had a rather hectic summer, what with our trip of a lifetime to Canada and Alaska, and then a summer full of gigs, we decided as we’d got some dosh left over that we would try and grab a last minute trip somewhere hot and let someone else do the cooking and washing up! […]

Adventures on the Rocky Mountaineer and Alaska Cruise – July 2019 Part 7 – [Hopefully not Sleepless in] Seattle

Wednesday Wednesday morning 7am, and the MS Volendam docked for the final time of our tour, in Vancouver. It was time to disembark and I felt flat as a pancake about this. All good adventures must come to an end, I know, but I was willing to have another week on the ship, you know, […]