JOOO…(Jonny off on one)
We’ve noticed a change in our hotel stops in the EU this trip. We’ve not had any hotel with those little disposable bottles with shampoo etc in, every hotel has had wall mounted dispensers, which has been great, especially as trying to get the top off those little bottles in the shower sometimes with wet hands is quite tricky for us pensioners. Another thing that has also changed, and not for the best, is the disappearing bog brush. Why do hotels no longer put them in the loos? Our last hotel even had a sign asking you to go to reception if you wanted one! – the walk...
Read MoreMelt down
I’ve been fighting my bad back and the old knee is giving me some gyp too but we’ve been making good progress until we reached our first tent site of the tour. It was a fab site, the showers and toilets were better than most hotels, a bit like you’d expect in a very posh gym on the day it opened and the Germans next to us got told to shut up by some annoyed Dutch around 10:30 saving us the trouble of getting out of our sleeping bags, but overall it was a good place to stay, despite the fact it poured with rain all night and we got a disturbed night’s sleep. We set off...
Read MoreWheeling our age…
As you get older the list of ailments grows, those younger than us will be thinking it won’t happen to them and those older will be thinking Oh yes it will, but anyway we’ve come of age and joined the multiple ailments brigade. And there’s only one way to deal with it and that’s as soon as they glue the latest bit to fall off you back on you get going before another part has a chance to fail. So we set off on our latest, much less adventurous tour – Friends and Family 24, or FAF for short. My knee is still not right and oddly enough it’s been fine until we...
Read MoreBetter late than never….
The final installment of our India trip !!… The flooding in Dubai had disrupted numerous flights, people were waiting for days for flights, many sleeping on the floor at the airport, but our flight showed as on time until, naturally enough, we were nearly at the airport. Then of course it changed to cancelled. We were in an odd situation. Emirates was refusing to fly anyone with connecting flights through Dubai, but as ours was a 4 day stopover that apparently didn’t count and we were classed as terminating in Dubai so could fly to there. So we joined the queue at Mumbai...
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