We are underway on our 2015 adventure. We got to Hong Kong this morning after the usual nightmare of long haul travel. Even though we both managed to sleep a lot of the flight from[…]

What a great way to start a holiday! We have travelled by plane, train, boat, cable tram and above all on foot. So now, as we leave this frenetic place our feet are aching and[…]

We’ve just got to dinner time on our second day in London and my legs are feeling pretty tired, and we are just off out again to see Mamma Mia. The flight from Hong Kong[…]

Yesterday turned into another epic. When we started planning our trip we were going to try to avoid London, but as we could not fly into Manchester from Hong Kong we thought we should have[…]

We’ve had a bit of a Collister day, although the Quilliam side of the family was not left out. We lunched with Fenella Collister, the first person with my surname I’ve ever met who was[…]

Another sustaining full cooked breakfast started our day at the guest house we’ve been staying in in Douglas in the Isle of Man. The place has a slight Fawlty Towers feel but without the mayhem,[…]

Today has been cold and windy although there has been almost no rain so we were able to get back to Peel this morning. We had a good wander around the town and found the[…]

Yesterday we spent the full day in Liverpool. We had decided that at nine pounds the “Hop on hop off” bus tour was good value but discovered that, as seniors, we could get tickets for[…]

We’ve been really lucky with our accommodation so far. We always look for budget places, trying to spend around $120 NZ per night. The London hotel was a bit dingy and on the “lower ground[…]