Blog hop – a look behind the scenes
It is always very rewarding to be recognised by other bloggers – especially those whose own work you enjoy. I spend so much time chatting to Kelly from “Around the World in 80 Pairs of Shoes” on twitter and instagram that I don’t spend enough time reading her blogs. I’ve just whiled away…
View PostMy year in photos – Project365
Here they all are! All 365 days of my life in 2014! I can say with extreme certainty that I am never doing this challenge again! It’s look Pretty impressive when they are in one place all together! It was certainly a busy year, but I have to say – I couldn’t be…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 20 – Paris
Paris is always a good idea! And as luck would have it we are back there next month – I cannot wait! It’s just a long weekend, and it is bound to be chilly – but there isn’t much better than time away with my husband seeing the city – we’ll be wrapped…
View PostThe final 31 pictures of project 365
I was excited about December! Not only was it the end of my photo challenge, but I also didn’t need to get on a single plane! For someone with a serious case of wanderlust and a love of staring out of plane windows looking at clouds, that was a clear sign that October…
View PostWhere to in 2015?
Strangely for us, we haven’t made many plans for 2015 yet. 2014 was an epic year of travel – 39 flights including visits with Mr P to UAE, Dubai, Venice, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Cornwall, Sardinia, Greece and Vienna…. We’ve no plans to keep up that pace this year, but we still have 12…
View PostBest of 2014
What I have loved (and, frequently hated) about this year is that I have captured and recorded a photo for every day of the year – just one left to go for tomorrow! I’ve put them all in one place if you want to have a rapid look! It’s been interesting, and flicking back…
View PostLiving the #spglife in the US!
In the UK there aren’t many Starwood properties, but on a recent business trip to the States I was hard pushed to find anything but. Value wise they also sit surprisingly well, compared to other business-style hotels. Given I was on the move pretty much every day on my trip, this meant I…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 19 – Dorset “I do”!
This is one of my favourite photos (and days)! Given the camera we had at the time – it is even more amazing! Mr P was in the process of changing jobs but had some time on his hands – so he’d done a bit of ‘shopping’! Before the new job started, off…
View PostTravel Advent Calendar – A Rural Retreat for Christmas
As part of the #traveladventcalendar I am taking this opportunity to tell you about a lovely Christmas we had in the middle of nowhere a few years ago! The year that we got married had been busy so at Christmas we decided on a rural retreat, just the two of us. It was…
View PostWinter is the time to update the travel bucket list
It’s amazing how much a travel bucket list can change, even since I started writing this blog! Granted I have checked off a few places that had been on the hit-list for a while (Greece, Sardinia, the Giants Causeway), but the list changes depending on what we see and enjoy from our travels,…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 18 – The Cheshire Loop
“There is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats” wrote Kenneth Graeme in Wind in the Willows! And he was right! And what was also interesting was that ‘boats’ don’t have to have sails (my preferred option) – they can actually have engines and very unpowerful…
View PostOnly 31 photos left in #project365 – here’s November
I took a deep breath at the start of November – there was an incredible amount to fit in! Sitting here in December – I managed it and I’m not exhausted! Flights being on time (and flat beds) really do make travel much easier to cope with! So – November dawned like another…
View PostIt’s beginning to feel a lot like #Christmas… everywhere we go!
This is actually a post from Christmas 2013, but so far this year my search for Christmas things in the UK has been hampered by a pre-Thanksgiving trip to the USA! As a result having toured much of the US, I saw just one Christmas tree – so my Christmas count is currently…
View PostAmerican Airlines Business Class – LHR to MIA
I’m very loyal to British Airways, but for a recent business trip the flight time on a BA code share with American Airline’s to Miami was much more amenable and so I took the brave step. This step was buoyed along by the fact that the flight was on one of AA’s brand new…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 17 – Almeria
Andalucía was never somewhere on my list to visit, probably as I hadn’t really heard of this region of Spain until Mr P came home one day and said that he was working with them as a sponsor in a sailing series he managed and he’d need to be there in October! Now…
View PostUPDATED Washington Dulles BA Lounge & the BA216 A380 home
Just a couple of weeks ago, British Airways opened its new Galleries lounge at Washington Dulles Airport, coinciding with the new BA A380 route between IAD and London Heathrow. As chance would have it last week I was flying British Airways business class to and from Washington and so was able to visit! Not…
View PostVienna in November
A weekend in Vienna in November was a real treat for us! Last month we went through the holiday blues coming back from the warmth of Greece with no more sunshine trips on the horizon (having thoroughly spoilt ourselves this year). But this month we had a long weekend visiting friends that live…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 16 – Norfolk
Now my heart may belong to Cornwall… But Norfolk is not very far behind! And it is well overdue a visit, I’m not sure we’ve been there since 2010 now? A shocking state of affairs! Happy news that friends are getting married there next summer… that’ll be a long weekend for the Parkers then!…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 15 – Killarney
That’s the view from our suite at Aghadoe Heights, looking out over the lakes of Killarney. We’re in Ireland, in County Kerry – look how green it is, incredible! We arrived in the dark, which wasn’t planned – more of that later! The concierge that showed us to our room suggested we leave…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 14 – Goodwood
Another quintessentially british day out – this time at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. This is an annual event near Chichester on a long and winding race track within the grounds of Goodwood House, known as the hill climb. Cars from different eras make timed runs up the track. It’s a good place…
View Post10 months through the year – Project 365 October
Another month has literally flown by! And it certainly had its fair share of flying slotted in!! Although November is going to prove October to be a walk in the park in that regard… The month started as I wish all months would, by putting on an ‘out of office’ email reply and…
View PostFalling in love on the road… with Cornwall
Falling in love on the road? Well I haven’t! I had to think about this – as when we are away we tend to keep ourselves to ourselves, I rarely see anything and have to buy it and I didn’t meet Mr P on my travels…. What else could I have fallen I…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 13 – Garda take 2
Oh the trouble I got in for taking this action shot… This is us in third spot, hot on the heels of 1st and 2nd place – we were flying in this race, everything was going well! To capture the moment I whipped out my waterproof camera that I had stuffed into a…
View PostFlashback Friday Travel Photo Memories 12 – Cowdray Polo
We haven’t been for a day out at the polo now for a few years, but it is such a great day out! Quintessentially English, although that said – the first polo I saw was actually at Apes Hill in Barbados (same set, different location). Cowdray Park is a gorgeous venue for the…
View PostAutumn visit to Greece
Greece – well finally I’ve found where future sunshine mini breaks will be!! I’ve only ever heard about the party islands or the gilded resorts on Santorini and so had crossed these off the preferred visit list. I wanted to enjoy the real and rustic country, in luxurious surroundings! Thankfully Mr P knew…
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