Lanzarote day 4

In the morning we walked from the hotel past Hotel Beatriz and up to the lower summit of Montana Carona. The views back towards the coast were amazing. The rest of the horseshoe is quite a sharp ridge and neither of us was keen to carry on around it, especially in the wind. We walked…

Lanzarote day 3

We went for a short walk along the beach after breakfast. Then read on our balcony watching a guy desperately trying to wind surf. Just before lunch we enquired about hiring a catamaran as part of our all inclusive deal. We booked one for Wednesday. After lunch we took a kayak out for a while…

Lanzarote day 2

Asher breakfast we went for a walk from the hotel to the North. We ended up going for nearly 6km up the coast before turning back and retracing our steps. We had lunch at the hotel and sat outside for a while under the clouds. We then went and made use of the spa that…

Lanzarote day 1

The taxi picked us up at 0650. There was a long, slow queue for Thomas Cook bag drop. Security was fairly quick. The plane took off about 40 minutes late. We arrived a bit late at Lanzarote airport and then had to wait quite a while for the coach to leave. We arrived at Sunconnect…

Walk from home

A circular walk from home through the Goyt Valley to Marple and back along the Peak Forest Canal.

Various WP media stuff

Galleries were displaying very slowly because WordPress had lost the ability to generate thumbnails. This was evident when going to Tools -> Regenerate Thumbnails. I was missing the php-imagick package. Installed and then run regenerate on all thumbnails. It would be good to also modify the operation of the inbuilt WordPress gallery so that galleria.io…

London day 3

We were up relatively late, had breakfast at the hotel again and took what ended up being a slow journey to Euston via West Ham, Aldgate East and Euston Square. We dropped off our main bag at the left luggage and walked down to Camden. We had lunch in Solieri Italian restaurant and spent a…

London day 2

We had the complimentary continental breakfast at the hotel, which was actually pretty good. We got the DLR back to Bank and then walked up to the postal museum. The ride on the mail train was good and so was the small exhibition there. We had lunch at the postal museum cafe before looking around…

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.

Tidying travel blog

Tidied up posts up to and including 29th February. Have manually rotated all images in Windows. Need to check dates of posts and then upload photos. The challenge is that all the photos are GMT. My automated gallery will set media date based on EXIF. Can then update media to align with date and time…