London day 1

We caught the train from Bredbury via Manchester to London in the afternoon. We’re staying at the IBIS budget London City Airport. The focus is definitely on budget.

Cotswolds day 5

Mum, Dad, Joshie, Ady and I went for a swim after breakfast. Tim and Nadine used the games room, which has a pool table, fussball, table tennis, x box, PlayStation and loads of DVDs. I dropped Ady off at Kingham station for the 12:54 to get home via Oxford. Tim, Nadine and Joshie left soon…

Cotswolds day 4

Ady, Nadine and I went for a cycle ride using the free bikes from the cottages. Ady and I managed about 8.5 miles. The others went for a swim. We spent the afternoon in the games room, playing football and attempting to get Joshie’s kite to fly. We had a barbeque in the evening. Ady…

Cotswolds day 3

We all went for a swim after breakfast. We had lunch at the cottage. In the afternoon we all went to Bourton on the Water and visited the model village and model railway. We had dinner at the Lamb Inn at Shipton under Wychwood. It turned out to be a lovely birthday tea.

Cotswolds day 2

Mum and Dad went for a swim. We all went for a walk from the cottage to Foxholes nature reserve. We had lunch at the cottage. Ady, Mum and I went to Stow on the Wold and Bourton on the Water in the afternoon. We just had a wonder around the towns. Mum and Ady…

Lanzarote to home

Our coach pick-up was at 11:40am so we had enough time to walk along the promenade to the lighthouse and back. We definitely took the scenic route back to the airport, with pick-ups at a number of hotels after ours. It took over an hour to reach the airport and once there it took us…

Lanzarote day 7

We walked along the promenade to the Playa Blanca harbour and booked tickets for the 11:30 Water Bus. Before boarding we bought some sandwiches from a small supermarket. We stayed on the boat past Marina Rubicon and on to Playa del Papagayo. Along the way the boat stops and everyone is ushered down to the…

Lanzarote day 6

The weather wasn’t so great today so we took advantage of our one free trip to the spa at the hotel. We spent the morning trying out the very warm salt-water pool, lemon bath, flower bath, turkish bath, sauna and cold spray shower. We booked in for a couple’s massage just before lunch. We spent…

Lanzarote day 5

Today we walked from the hotel to the West along the main road and then Avenue Faro Pechiguera to the derelict hotel at Los Charcones. We then walked back around the coast, taking in some of the huge rock pools below the cliffs along the way, and cut off the corner by going along Calle…