• A perfectly passable Alps adventure

    A cheap little weekend exploring the Alps Read more

  • Another month, another jaunt

    The festive season had arrived, and the winter was stubbornly refusing to depart. I swear SAD gets more and more a ‘thing’ every year, and whilst climate change probably doesn’t really impact on daylight, this year has seemed far more Scandinavian than most, featuring a… Read more

  • The answer is always “Take the flight”

    I’ve never been a particular fan of the festive period, striving always to avoid the C word where possible. It’s not that I am grumpy, it’s just the ramming of it down your throat from November onwards and the false expectations and obligations on everyone.… Read more

  • Sand to seaside

    After probably a little too long in the desert, it was a relief to be back to the slightly more normal humidity and climate of Santiago. We’d formulated a rough plan facilitated by nothing other than the “Search map” function of Booking.com therefore were off… Read more

  • San Pedro, mi amor

    The slight trauma of our driver’s car seizure was tempered somewhat by a very decent flight up to San Pedro de Atacama. Once again, we’d gone for the premium option- or at least Mark had- however I was forced to agree that this actually made… Read more

  • Turning left spoils you

    And so, the time was nigh. Another holiday in the offing. Once more, this was largely based on factors that the average holidaymaker would never consider, the central one being “What’s the longest direct BA flight you can do with miles?” It turned out that… Read more

  • Finishing up with Thailand

    Koh Mook wasn’t our final dalliance with island Thailand. Destination for the last few days of island hopping was Koh Kradan. Kradan was much smaller than anywhere else we’d been, just a few mere miles from Mook. We really didn’t fancy mucking around too much… Read more

  • A perfectly acceptable little midweek jolly

    In life, it’s all about peaks and troughs. The peak in this case was having both night shifts off [although writing this it’s suddenly occurred to me that I’ve therefore missed out on fifty quid’s worth of shift allowance…trough] The [second] trough was having to… Read more

  • Van jaunts are the best jaunts

    Owning an old van comes with a great degree of guilt, if you don’t use it enough. Primary excuses for the past month have been based around lack of time and weather. But with the latter improving, and an overtime ban at work assisting the… Read more

  • Into the jungle

    So, we’d arrived in Thailand. A good three days of beach bumming, but there always needs to be something to break it up a bit. Having looked around previously Khao Sok National Park seemed like a good shout…not a million miles from Phuket and definitely… Read more