This morning, 3rd January, my cunning plan to wear earplugs almost thwarted the 4am singing but Tiger woke up hot so I changed her nappy...

At 9am this morning, 2nd January, we met up with Eddie our new guide for the next 3 days. I had agreed with him a price of $325 dollars...

I always feel that I stay in capital cities too long, but overall I think our three nights in Addis, given that I was so tired and simply...

We have only been in Addis Ababa a few days now, but it somehow feels longer. Tiger slept - even through the other children of the house...

Way back in May 2020, and at the very start of the first lockdown, I decided that I needed something to look forward to, and with me that...

On Saturday 19th September, we had a free weekend so decided very last minute to hot foot it over to the Isle of Wight. This was not...

On 14th August, we drove the 97km (2 hours) from Deva to Sibui arriving at just after 2pm and in time for a nap - so organised! Parking...

On our last day in Romania, we stayed very near to the Optemi Airport in an apartment hosted by homestay.ro, booked via Booking.com for...

On 12th August we drove from Turda to Deva (136km and about 3 hours with traffic) to check into our Airbnb owned by Alina. The Airbnb...

On 10th August, we left Sovata at just after midday after a massive downpour for the 3 hour or so drive (131km) to Turda. It also took me...

We left our gorgeous apartment in Sighișoara at around noon on 9th August (we'd requested a "late" check out as it is usually 10am and we...

On Friday 7th August, we drove the 117km from Brașov to Sighișoara leaving at 12.45 and arriving just before 3pm. It was an easy drive,...

On 5th August, we packed up to leave Bran to do the relatively short 30 minute drive to Brașov. I kept debating whether to quickly take...

After our three nights in Bucharest, we were ready to get on the move. After two trips to the car car park going up and down in lift and...

From Bucharest airport, we had my usual "holy shit" moment of I'm driving in a foreign country on the "wrong" side of the road moment but...

After months of speculation thanks to the global pandemic, and our trip in May cancelled, re-planned then postponed as late as...

After seeing Jaxx in Truro, on 22 July we drove the 150 miles or so to the seaside town of Weston-Super-Mare. We'd originally booked into...

I'd previously thought that, if you were going to the Eden Project, you had to stay nearby but in actual fact Newquay is only 20 miles or...

On 21 July, we had our breakfast and ran ourselves ragged (Tiger, not me) so during our lunchtime nap, one of us had a good old sleep...

Our next week-long trip (and in our new-to-us VW Golf, rather than the much loved Smart) started in Glastonbury on 20 July, where we we...