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DRAFT Phew! What a trip, What a holiday! We saw amazing things, we had great experiences, and we aren't ever doing anything like it ever again! (See the second part of this entry linked here for all the reasons) This was the final part of a

Unusually for us we had decided to have a holiday in the height of summer - we generally avoid July & August because of the higher prices and the number of children about. As it happened, this trip worked out extremely well. It was - in effect -

Here’s an account of our very successful train & ferry trip to the South of France in May 2025. This was originally published in a lot more detail at https://mikefromlfe.mataroa.blog/ – this is a condensed summary. Our plan was to head for

It was 2023 and life seemed to be back to some sort of normal at last. We were able to think about filling in the gaps of our aborted 6 week long Interrail trip planned for just the moment the pandemic hit in 2020. The gap this holiday was designed

As I mentioned in my post of August 12th last year we are going to the south of France this May. I was intending to delay booking this until the last possible moment - which for me was the 17th March to allow for the various booking windows to be

This is a retrospective report (by 7 years) of a very successful & happy trip we took in April & May 2017. This involved a couple of extremely long travelling days that I would not contemplate doing now. It was also before my wife really

I've realised that our main trip of 2024 to Germany by way of the Netherlands is split over a number of posts and there's no straightforward description of the whole journey. It was a great trip with no major disasters - a couple of lessons learned,

I was awake before the ferry docked at Harwich, but that wasn't a problem as it gave me time to reflect and get my bearings. As usual we were turfed out of our cabin smartish upon the car decks being opened - no time for a leisurely start really. I

We had a generally good night on The Pride of Hull although inexplicably I had an upset stomach in the night. This settled by mid morning. Breakfast was good although I saved some of my Continental Breakfast for a later snack. I cannot understand

Today counts as a success! The taxi arrived at out house about 10 minutes early and despite taking a very odd route through the centre of Leicester got us to tge railway station we'll before the anticipated time. This meant that we could get an