This year our Slow Travels have taken us to Rome. What a wonderful historic city. Almost every step you take when you are in the centre of the city, is taken on ground that has been walked on for more than 2000 years. This year our apartment is a little further out than in previous… Continue reading Slow Travels 2018 – Rome – Part 1
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Slow Travel 2018 – Rome
Well, it is almost time for our Slow Travel trip for 2018. This year it is Rome in Italy for 6 weeks. Last years trip to Madrid in Spain, was an outstanding success, our best trip so far. I have waxed lyrical many times on the benefits of Slow Travel. My husband and I are so fortunate,… Continue reading Slow Travel 2018 – Rome
Retirement Travels 2018 – Amsterdam
Amsterdam is such a lovely place. I know it well from spending the best part of 2 years working there. However I didn’t know it as a tourist. So this was my first ever trip as a tourist. We were spoilt, the weather was glorious, in fact, slightly too warm, but I was not going… Continue reading Retirement Travels 2018 – Amsterdam
Retirement Travels 2018 – The Hebrides Part 3 – Stornoway to Loch Lomond
An early night for our 6am start the next morning for yet another ferry – this one from Stornoway to Ullapool. We were lucky yet again – a lovely calm crossing. My son had planned a drive along to Gairloch, and back towards Inverness. Yet again , some glorious scenery. This one is overlooking Little Loch… Continue reading Retirement Travels 2018 – The Hebrides Part 3 – Stornoway to Loch Lomond
Retirement Travels 2018 – The Hebrides Part 2 – Harris and Lewis
To recap a little, my son suggested we join him for a few days going around the Hebrides, while his wife was at the Gaelic school Sabhal mor Ostaig in Skye. An excellent idea. You can read my earlier post in Part 1 which covered our lovely train journey from Glasgow to Mallaig, and a… Continue reading Retirement Travels 2018 – The Hebrides Part 2 – Harris and Lewis
Retirement Travels 2018 – The Hebrides Part 1 – Edinburgh to Skye
A few weeks ago, we spent a lovely weekend with our older son (and a bit shorter time with his wife). The plan was that my son would drop his wife off in Skye for her Gaelic course at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, and then meet us in Mallaig. The three of us would then travel… Continue reading Retirement Travels 2018 – The Hebrides Part 1 – Edinburgh to Skye