Rain supreme: how to deal with bad weather on your trip

At this very moment in time I am holed up in my kitchen in my teeny tiny little doll’s house while the few windows and doors that are still intact are rattling crazily in the force 10 gale that is tearing through he place.  Yes, I’m having double glazing fitted slap bang in the middleContinue reading “Rain supreme: how to deal with bad weather on your trip”

Brand new year, brand new travels

For me New Year isn’t about detox diets and striving to be a better person.  (Perhaps it should be? Perhaps that’s why I’m fat and miserable?). Nope, in Longland, New Year is about where the bloody hell can I go next!

Herzzerreißend

I have just learned this word from a friend.  It is German for hearbreaking. As I write, news is filtering through from Berlin that a deliberate attack on a crowded Christmas market has killed at least nine people and injured dozens more.  The details are still unclear but early reports are that a lorry fromContinue reading “Herzzerreißend”