Tenerife day 4
Mum and Dad walked almost to Lomo de las Casillas. Ady and I had a lazy day on the sun loungers. We went for a short walk down to the shore and the cemetery after lunch. Mum and Dad got back just after 5pm and we had a barbeque.
Tenerife day 3
We dropped off Mum near the Hiper Dino in Santa Cruz. She got some shopping then took the bus to San Andres and after a short break on to Igueste. Dad, Ady and I made it to the lower cable car station of Mount Teide in perfect time for our booked slot at 11am. The…
Tenerife day 2
We all walked up the hill towards El Semaforo. Mum and Dad made it part of the way, then headed back down the hill and walked around a bit more of the town. Ady and I made it almost to the old semaphore station, but decided it wasn’t worth going all the way down to…
Tenerife day 1
Ady and I flew from Manchester to Tenerife South with Jet2. Taxi was booked for 6:30am and, thanks to the self bag drop from Jet2, we were through check in and security in plenty of time. I bought a new headset for my phone and we grabbed some snacks from Boots. Our flight departed about…
London Feb 2017
Following Raymond’s death last year we said that we should arrange a visit to the Science Museum in London to go and see 2LO – the BBC’s first transmitter, which Ray had been instrumental in helping save from the scrap heap. We decided on the weekend of 18th February to fall after my 40th Birthday…
Journey home from Wester Ross – part 2
We were up and out by 9:30am. We had a short stop at Asda just outside Carlisle – filling up with diesel, buying a few provisions, a snack for lunch and taking the dogs for a short walk in the small nature reserve at the end of Chandler Way. We arrived home at about 3pm.…
Journey home from Wester Ross – part 1
We were up, packed up and out of the lodge just before the 10am check out time. We said goodbye to Alisdair who looked a bit tired after the trip away to Ruairdhri’s graduation ceremony in Aberdeen. We went up the road for one last walk on Firemore sands and to see if there was…
Wester Ross day 13
The weather forecast for today was pretty poor so we had already decided that we would chill out and also avoid spending time in the car given the mileage that we had to cover over the next two days. We went for a brief walk on the beach at Camas na Muic (Firemore) and got…
Wester Ross day 12
After a false start of parking at the Beinn Eighe visitor centre car park we drove the short way back to the car part at the start of the woodland and mountain trails. Stocked up with jumpers, waterproofs, drinks, lunch and the dogs coats and towels we headed off up the mountain trail. The start…
Wester Ross day 11
We made up a packed lunch and walked from the lodge on the path towards Rua Reigh lighthouse. Beyond the road and track the path became very rocky, boggy and uneven. It was harder work than we’d anticipated so we only made it about half way to the end of the peninsula, where we stopped…