New Year, New Plans
Travel planning is consuming my weekend – just how I like it! Amazingly, I was able to cancel the whole China trip without recourse to claiming on insurance; with the […]
Category Archives: Departure Lounge
Waving Goodbye
Today is the day we would be flying to China. Sometimes life events overtake plans. Those plans could have been carefully laid months in advance, or (like ours) have been […]
Christmas Travel, Sponsored by Airmiles
I have over 160,000 Airmiles. I LOVE Airmiles. I collect Airmiles through Tesco and studiously ignore the temptation of free money to spend in store, or free trips to Legoland […]
10 Days to Go…
10 days to go, and I’ll be in Malta! I’ve booked flights and accommodation in two different parts of the island, and will be there from Saturday to Thursday. A […]
Birthday Travel Planning
I had thought long and hard about being away for my birthday. In the months leading up to N going away, I had been absolutely adamant that I didn’t want […]
Girls Plan Turkey!
A friend recently asked me where I would like to go most from the places where N has already been. Unhesitatingly I said ‘Istanbul’. The thought of Istanbul is thrilling […]
Toilets and Tribulations
Some good friends once bought me a book called Toilets of the World with the inscription ‘Saw this and thought of you’ which I hope referred to the ‘of the […]
‘To the Glorious Health of Lenin’
The letters stand high on the roof of a crumbling building on the shore of Lake Issyk-Köl in Kyrgyzstan. Our Russian speaking friend translates them as roughly ‘To the Glorious […]
A Day Out in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan
I have to admit I’m a bit of a fair weather skier in as much as I enjoy it, but only when conditions are good, and I get tired (and […]
Skiing in that well known resort – Karakol in Kyrgyzstan
Central Asia. Not every European’s destination of choice when looking for somewhere for a spot of skiing. The resort of Karakol is about 10km out of the town and comprises […]
The Journey from Almaty to Karakol
We toppled from the plane, through immigration (again) and out to the carousel area where our bags had miraculously appeared. Drivers hired from the Embassy, Boris and his son Alex, […]
The Rule of Threes
As I write, knowing what is coming next, I’m convinced that the rule of threes is alive and well and following us on our first 24 hours in Central Asia. […]
Disasterous In-Flight Movie
What could be the worst in-flight movie? I haven’t spent a great deal of time pondering this question, but initial thoughts spring to mind as being any of the 1970’s […]
One More Sleeps!
It’s the day before the flight, and I’m frantically trying to work out if we have everything we need. I don’t really know why I’m wasting energy thinking about it […]
And where are YOU going for Easter?
At a dinner party recently, someone asked me what we were doing for Easter. Now, this has been happening quite a lot lately, and always has me wondering why people […]
Two Nomadic Brits 