Isn't it a shame that, in these busy times, we often only manage to see our uncles and aunts and cousins at weddings and funerals ? Such...

We've been home from our lovely holiday for a week now and life is a bit "ho hum". A 30+ hour journey takes a bit of getting ...

Visiting cemeteries is not something that I do very often. Oh, I know that these places are often very interesting with all the old gravesto...

One of our activities today involved a revisit to the Louvre. Last time we attempted to visit was on the free entrance Sunday that happen...

This is our third visit to Paris.  Each visit we have spent a week here so we feel very comfortable here. Each time we have stayed in...

A final tribute to a very beautiful place -  Bellagio . So lovely that you have to search your vocabulary for new ways to sing its prai...

We are settled into the final Italian stopover of our holiday - Bellagio on Lake Como. Getting there was an epic day of train to Milan, ...