Day 4 Breakfast was again about 7.0 with the coach leaving at about 8.30 to drive to the village of Carrick, on the River Shannon. There was one available toilet there so there was a long queue as we waited for the boat to take our trip on the river. Once on the boat we…
Category: Holidays
Holiday in Ireland I
Day minus 1 Take Sam’s cat to cattery. Day 1 Friend picks me up and we go to pick up Sam and go to the coach park to be picked up by a coach at 2.0 a.m. We travel to Andover, Chieveley Services, Didcot Parkway station and Bicester to pick up more people having to…
Short break in Sussex
Yes – another hf holiday – supposed to be “Gentle Guided Walking” and only 4 nights. I drove there and arrived on time for the cream tea and had time to unpack and put boots in the boot room. We had a safety briefing and description of the next days walks and it was there…
Southern Yorkshire Dales – Walking and Sightseeing III
The next day we visited Fountains Abbey (another UNESCO World Heritage site) and Studley Royal Water Gardens – quite a long coach journey to get there but free entry to those of us who are National Trust members. Also it was paved paths so I wore shoes not boots (which helped my toe!) When I…
Southern Yorkshire Dales – Walking and Sightseeing II
The second day we walked down from Morton (not sure if it was East or West!) to the Leeds – Liverpool canal and we walked along that for most of the morning. We reached the Bingley Five Rise locks where there was a café and toilets, so we stopped there for elevenses before walking down…
Southern Yorkshire Dales – Walking and Sightseeing I
Yet another hf holiday based at Newfield Hall in Airedale. The Yorkshire Dales are mostly sheep and drystone walls. Although the view from my window was actually of cows… and a lovely copper beech. The first day we took a coach to Settle station – I liked the labels on the benches. From there we…
Go to Frome for a “70th” Celebration
I received the invitation to the ” 70th celebration” in the summer and replied saying that I would go. This was from friends I made more than 40 years ago in Kenya. I decided that I wouldn’t want to drive back in the dark in November so at some stage in the autumn got round…
The last (I hope) reunion.
Yes, yet another university reunion, this one back at Warwick. It was supposed to happen 3 years ago – 50 years since we went up – but the pandemic got in the way so it became this year, (just over) 50 years since we graduated. A friend (well, I assume we are friends) gave me…
Peak District – Walking and Sightseeing IV
The evening after seeing Cromford Mill was the night of the HF Quiz! This takes place after dinner and all the HF houses do the same quiz – shown on a screen. Those who took part were in groups of no more than 6 and as there were quite a lot of “Walking and Sightseers”…
Peak District – Walking and Sightseeing III
We got the minibus at 9.15 the next day, after another substantial breakfast! This dropped us at a carpark (with one loo – we queued!) on the edge of moorland and we followed tracks across the moor. It was sunny and breezy and very enjoyable and even more so when we saw curlews, then a…