Ady and I left the villa before the others and walked down to the beach. We went via a pharmacy to pick up some decongestant tablets for me and then carried on along the beach to the west. We lay on the headland for an hour or so before the others turned up and we…
Today we drove to a track just south of Alaoir and walked past the abandoned army buildings. We explored one of the abandoned storage rooms that were built into the limestone hill. Back outside we were greated by two chickens who have obviously taken over sentry duty. We walked on down the track to a…
Today should have consisted of a taxi ride home, but instead we were at Heathrow airport. When we arrived we went straight to the Delta ticket desk and they arranged seats on a BMI flight to Manchester at 8:15pm. We then went to Terminal 1 and aranged for BMI to put us on standby for…
We had a lie in and then decided to frequent what has become our local for breakfast – Pax. We sat watching the road being dug up to lay a new pipe and one old NY lady shaking her walking stick at the workmen. We walked up to Central Park, stopping off at the markets…
We got breakfast at Pax again, but went for the higher calorie breakfast muffins this time. We walked up to Dangerfields comedy club to see if we could get tickets, but there wasn’t a box office. We carried on walking up to Central Park and then into the park. We enjoyed ambling around for a…
We had a lie in this morning, checked out of the Flatotel and moved our bags down to the Pod hotel. They had a room available so we checked in straight away. The whole room is about the same size as the bathroom in the Flatotel, but it’ll do. We headed out to find some…
We had a nice lie in on the train and then went for breakfast. French toast for me today! The couple we were sat with gave us some history of the area and Washington station. We also exchanged stories about owning dogs. We didn’t see a lot from the train as we wwere frequently in…
Well rested we made it down to breakfast with 15 minutes to spare. Complimentary scrambled egg, sausage and bacon this morning – what a treat! We ordered a shuttle service (also complimentary) to the CTA station for the Skokie swift to Howard. There we had to change to the red line to Jackson, then the…
According to the announcement this morning we were running an hour and a half late. This was due to a tornado warning in Iowa needing us to slow down and also the crew had to clear debris from the track. The routine was the same this morning as yesterday: shower, breakfast and then back to…
Neither of us slept brilliantly, but we did manage to get some rest. We both had a quick shower and headed to the restaurant for our complementary cooked breakfast. After that we settled back into our compartment to watch the world go by for another day. Most of the day was spent ascending towards the…