Category Archives: International Travel

The flight back from Guernsey to England was delayed by an hour for no apparent reason, and as a consequence we had a very late dinner in Cranleigh. The following morning we were dropped off in Guildford and took the train from there to London, and thence to Margate. The English trains are very good;Continue reading “The Last Few Days in the UK”

The drive from Mylor Bridge to Southampton, a distance of the order of 400km took 8 hours! From home to Lakes Entrance, which is the same distance, it usually takes us half of that time! The road in both directions was nose-to-nose traffic for the entire 8 hours, but very rarely did we actually comeContinue reading “Guernsey”

And so we said farewell to Whitstable and headed off on the A2, M2, M20 and several other roads, toward the village of Cranleigh in the county of Surrey, where we would stay the night with our niece and nephew. Cranleigh claims to be the largest village in England, with its population of about 11,000.Continue reading “Cranleigh and the West”

Final day in Whitstable We are now into our last couple of days at Whitstable, the weather is still perfect, and one half of our party has gone to Canterbury to collect the hire car for the next leg. It is amazing how time has got away from us, as we consider we still haveContinue reading “Sketches around Whitstable”

The winding main street of Whitstable is not very wide at best, and very narrow indeed in some parts. The footpaths are similarly of varying widths, and with the throngs of mostly tourists, people ‘down from London’, a few local residents moving around, and too many cars for comfort, walking around was necessarily slow. ThisContinue reading “Sketches of Whitstable 2”

  So here we are in Whitstable, which, for those who are not familiar with this part of England, is on the north coast of Kent, at the extremity of the Thames estuary. It is readily accessible from London by rail, which passes through the Medway towns of Chatham and Rochester, well known to theContinue reading “Sketches of Whitstable”

  Well, here we are, back in England! At one stage we thought that we might actually miss the flight when we were trapped on our way to the airport by a B-Double that had jack-knifed trying to make a u-turn in a road that was far too small for it! The last time weContinue reading “Back in Blighty 2019”

At the end of our few days in Scotland, it was time to travel south back to Kent. So on the last day we booked a couple of bed and breakfast overnight stops on-line, making our choices based partly on price, and partly on the photographs shown on the websites. Both places we chose wereContinue reading “Travelling South”

Arriving at St Andrews on Saturday May 7 a few hours later than planned, we went direct to the hostel where Ann’s brother John has been a resident for the past ten years or so, and we were very pleased to find him somewhat better than we had expected. But his Parkinson’s is progressing, andContinue reading “A Few Days in Scotland”

  Having stayed in Kent until Geoff’s funeral, we left on May 5, and pointed the car toward Scotland to visit Ann’s brother John. Knowing that we would not get off to a particularly early start, we decided to go only as far as Ely in Cambridgeshire on the first day. Skirting the university cityContinue reading “Heading North”