We’ve written a couple of recent articles about solar powered outside lights and portable LED lights suitable for traveling with. But the as yet unanswered question is ‘how much light is enough’? Please now continue […]
Good morning Great news. On the basis that we still had three allocated cabins unsold, I managed to get an extension of time from Amawaterways for the discount on our July cruise in Bordeaux. So
Don’t you hate checking in to your hotel room and finding yourself groping around a dimly lit room, with insufficient lighting to allow you to conveniently read or do other fine-detail work. Particularly as we
Good morning The special deal we have on our French river cruise through the Bordeaux region in July expires this Monday, 29 February. It may be extended into March, but I’ve not yet heard from
As travelers, we spend appreciable time away from our home, and an unoccupied home is an appealing target for burglars. There’s very little we can do to make our homes impregnable. We can harden them
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Good morning Happy birthdays this week to two different but both revolutionary things – the helicopter, now turning 80, and the 747, which first flew 47 years ago. Some doubt exists as to whether we’ll
Good morning I nearly had to say ‘the dog ate my homework’ – my lovely German Shepherd, Sophie, shifted at my feet under the desk a short while ago and in doing so, caused the
Do you remember the ‘good old days’ of impenetrably thick and boring travel guide-books? Huge big 1 – 2″ thick books, with almost no pictures anywhere, and of obscured (they would often not show publication
Good morning I should have the next paragraph saved somewhere so I can just cut and paste it the several times each year it deserves to be called out. As it definitely does this week.
Good morning Happy birthday, yesterday, to the Concorde. It was 40 years ago on Thursday that saw this, the absolutely most beautiful of all planes, ever, take to the skies on its first ever commercial
To my embarrassment, I had not experienced an Uber ride until this last weekend. I’d been unfortunate in the choice of places I needed cab rides, and it was only in Silicon Valley that I
Yes, returned by popular request after our very successful and closely similar 2014 tour, we now have the details online for our Oct/Nov tour to New Zealand, with, as a special bonus, our first ever
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