This is our first holiday abroad with Ellie. We left home shortly before 8am in Ben’s car to head to Manchester airport. T2 West multi storey is very new and part of the expansion of the airport. It is quite a long walk back to terminal 1, though most of it is in the covered,…
Our last day in Wales. It was raining, again! Fortunately there was a brief dry spell to get the car loaded. We stopped off in Llandudno at the Castle View Bar and Restaurant for lunch. It was an excellent meal, though it took a while. After lunch the rain had again eased off so we…
Today we went to Penrhyn Castle – the first use of our National Trust membership. It was wet when we arrived so after a quick look at the courtyard of the railway museum we headed for lunch in the cafe. After a leisurely meal the rain had eased off. We walked around the walled garden…
Today we went to Gorsaf Ddu. We had lunch in the railway cafe and then spent a short while in the free slate museum. The museum houses the largest water wheel in the UK. It was used to power all the machinery in the workshops, which was used to repair and manufacture items for the…
This is our first short holiday with Ellie. A few days away on the North Wales coast. We set off from home shortly after 12pm – about the earliest it seems to be possible to leave at the moment! Thank goodness we have a roof box for the car. We stopped off at the Old…
UK get together before Mum and Dad jet off to New Zealand. Meeting up at the New Place Hotel, Southampton (http://www.newplacehotel.co.uk/). Mum, Dad, Tim, Nadine, Joshie, Alexander, Ben, Ady, Phoebe and Lexi.
The week had started out quite windy and the first few days were overcast most of the time. The last few days we’ve had a lot more sunshine. This morning it was very windy again, with intermittent sunshine. We checked in for our flight online and asked reception to print out our boarding passes. We…
We walked south along the coast and popped to HiperDino Express Neptuno for Ady to pick up some aloe vera cream and sweets. When we got back to the hotel we sat on the beach. We did the same after lunch. We did build a small wind break from rocks. We went for a short…
In the morning we took a walk along the coast to the North again. Sat on the cliff top watching boats go by for a while and then returned via the track that runs slightly inland. After lunch we sat on the beach. As the tide recedes plenty of small prawns are left in the…
We went for a brief walk after breakfast before going out on a hobie cat that we’d booked for 11am. We had fun going in and out of the bay on it before I had a short stint on it myself. After lunch we hired bikes (€3 each) and cycled to the port at Arrecife.