Having said goodbye to Emma, we headed to Ngapali Beach. The airports we have visited have all been like bus stops and the planes cosy. Upon arrival at the aiport at Ngapali we were collected by another vintage bus, but … Continue reading Seascapes and Elephants (Myanmar Part 5)
There was slight ok – mega disappointment from our youngest traveller when we got to our hotel on the shores of Inle Lake. There was no swimming pool. And when you turn 11, and want things to be perfect, a … Continue reading Horses, Wine, Cake and the Lake (Myanmar part 4)
This is the holiday that has meant that when in Bangkok this past week with Eleanor I had to strike a deal… no pagodas, no temples, no palaces and no monasteries. We booked a tour with the hotel for the … Continue reading Palatial Pagodas (Myanmar Part 3)
The idea for the Christmas holiday was that it would be three weeks of relaxing. But when choosing Myanmar we felt we couldn’t just fly in, sit on a beach and leave. So when my colleague, Emma and I planned … Continue reading A day in Yangon (Myanmar Part 2)
This holiday was meant to be a relax by the beach one. The term (a very long one from August to December with a week’s holiday at the start of October) is a killer to put it mildly. And one … Continue reading Magnificent Myanmar or Beautiful Burma (Part 1)
The Tempest was the Junior school’s play in March, and we had our very own Miranda. Eleanor wouldn’t let me rehearse her lines with her as she wanted it all to be a surprise for Martin and I. So we … Continue reading Odds and Ends of 2019
Following on from the 999 steps adventure, the next couple of days saw our group on more cable cars that took us up mountains, buses that we would queue for then when they arrived, we would rush on them to … Continue reading Glass
While on a road to Everest I was busy booking the next part of the summer holiday. A tour to Zhangjiajie in Hunan Province. Home of the mountains that inspired the Hallelujah Mountains in the film Avatar. Another mountain top … Continue reading Stairway to Heaven- July 2019
I first came across the phrase of “mountain top moments” when I was part of GirlGuiding UK’s Centenary Planning Committee. What would your mountain top moment be in 2010? Mine was planning and being at the Young Women’s World Forum … Continue reading Mountain Top Moments
Christmas 2018 was spent at the foot of the Sequoia National Park in California, just a couple of hours drive from Los Angeles. We got in to see the General Sherman Tree, passing snow on the road. The tree is a giant sequoia tree and while not the tallest or the widest, but no other tree surpasses this tree’s combined weight (1,285 metric tons) and height. Its circumference measures 31-metres, and is 84 metres tall. You get a crick in your neck just looking at it (the information point said that it is like a mouse looking up at a … Continue reading Partial shutdown and Christmas 2018
