Hotel Tartini is perfectly situated with a choice of a view over Tartini Square or a balcony view towards the harbour and the sea beyond. On arrival at the hotel we found we had a room with a birds eye view of the square, a perfect room with a perfect view. During our stay we [...]
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Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
Hotel Tartini – Piran
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 11th 2015
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The Queen Has Been Graciously Pleased…
Earlier this year I was informed that I had been awarded the Imperial Service Medal. My name along with a number of my colleagues names was published in the London Gazette 2nd June 2015.
Madam,
I am commanded to forward the Imperial Service Medal which Her Majesty The Queen has been graciously pleased to award to you [...]
24 Comments CherryPie on Nov 30th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Newcastle 2015
The Vermont Hotel, Newcastle
Over the years I have stayed in many hotels in Newcastle. I first encountered the Hotel Vermont in 2013 and, although on that occasion I only stayed there for one night I immediately fell in love with it. Now it is my choice of accommodation when I stay in Newcastle.
From the hotel website:
The Vermont Hotel [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 18th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Out & About
London 2015
We booked a taxi to take us to the coach in good time for our annual trip to London. Normally, we drive and leave the car outside the local supermarket but on this occasion the trip coincided with an annual bonfire event and the place would be teeming with people. The journey to London ran [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 16th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Holidays, Newcastle 2015, This & That
Computer Problems…
For some reason my computer has decided to play up this evening. One of the programes has decided to hog all the CPU resources meaning that nothing else will work. So I am resigned to working on my laptop with limited resources and it is sooo slow… Hopefully normal service will be resumed ASAP.
I am [...]
11 Comments CherryPie on Nov 10th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Newcastle 2015
Newcastle – Day Five
We were all packed up and ready to go before we went down for breakfast so all we needed to do after breakfast was settle the bill for the few extras we had added to our room.
On the way home we stopped off at Hexham to see the Abbey as recommended by JD. Hexham Abbey [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 4th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Art, Holidays, Newcastle 2015
Newcastle – Day Four
I awoke abruptly at 1am in the morning to the sound of what I soon realized was the fire alarm going off. We both leaped out of bed just as the alarm stopped ringing so I returned to bed and when I was satisfied it was a false alarm I went back to sleep. I [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Nov 3rd 2015
