Late today I returned from a long weekend away, spending time with family and friends. In the next few days I will share details from my recent travels before continuing with posts on my travels in Slovenia.
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Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Newcastle 2015
A Room with a View
12 Comments CherryPie on Oct 27th 2015
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Summer in October
Summer in England has arrived unseasonably late. I am not complaining, the days have been warm enough for me to enjoy sitting out on the patio reading a book watching the sun go down.
18 Comments CherryPie on Oct 13th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
Plane Spotting
Vulcan XH558 is reaching the end of her flying days and over the weekend she flew a couple of farewell fly past tours. I was able to stand on a grassy mound at Cosford in order to watch her fly by.
We heard her before we saw her because her approach was obscured by the Cold [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 12th 2015
Our early morning call woke us at 4.20 am and we quickly showered and packed the last few items in our cases with a view to being outside ready for our 5.30 transfer that the Ljubljana representative had told us to expect. The room phone rang at 5 am and when I picked it up [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 10th 2015
After breakfast, which was even more chaotic than it had been the previous two mornings, we set off towards the Museum of Contemporary History. On the way we stopped off at one of the bookshops that we had visited the previous day so that I could buy a book about the Crusades and Crusader Knights [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 9th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
Piran & Ljubljana – Day Ten
After breakfast we visited St Nicholas’ Cathedral and the Franciscan Church of the Annunciation. Both were decorated in a similar style inside. After these visits we went to look inside the Galerija Emporium department store to look at the Art Deco features of the building. There was not much to be seen on the inside [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 7th 2015
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Piran & Ljubljana – Day Nine
After such an early start the previous day we had a lie-in to recover. It was fairly chaotic when we arrived for breakfast due to the volume of people. The breakfast itself was a standard chain hotel continental breakfast.
After breakfast we took the funicular to Ljubljana Castle where we spent the whole day. On arrival [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Oct 6th 2015
