Category Archives: Holidays
Balearic adventures – Day 3
Castles, cocktails and a casualty of war (RIP, AirPod) 6:00am — Awake before the world, doing what any self-respecting blogger does: fixing a photo that refuses to load properly. It’s the small hills we choose to die on. Diagnosis: needs … Continue reading
Balearic adventure
Day 1 Escaping the mainland (sort of) Some months ago, in a fit of what I can only describe as extended-summer ambition, we decided that our year needed one more slice of sea, sun, and questionable sunscreen application. The target: … Continue reading
Experimenting
Channeling my inner Indiana Jones (with a little help from AI) indy-travel-map.html In a moment of forward-thinking brilliance—or possibly just impatience—I decided that planning a trip wasn’t quite enough. No, what I clearly needed was a cinematic visualisation of it. … Continue reading
Spanish retreat – Day 24
🇬🇧 The triumphant return (and the case of the Sahara in the car) And just like that, we reach the final day of the trip. The last kilometres. The last Spanish petrol station. The last opportunity to pretend that life … Continue reading
Spanish retreat – Day 23
🇬🇧 The strategic retreat (with supplies) The good news: today’s drive is only 240 km.The bad news: it means we are getting dangerously close to the French border and therefore to reality. We leave fairly early after the classic hotel … Continue reading
Spanish retreat – Day 22
🇬🇧 Reus, rain, rejection and Pisco Sour “We had planned two whole nights in Tarragona just to soak up the Roman ruins — and then saw everything in one afternoon. Classic overachievers.” With a day to spare and nothing left … Continue reading
Spanish retreat – Day 21
🇬🇧 Rain, Romans and refusing to go to bed like a sensible adult We woke under a blue sky. I say “blue sky” — it lasted roughly the time it takes to drink a coffee and feel optimistic about life. … Continue reading
Spanish retreat – Day 20
🇬🇧 The great unravelling They say all good things must come to an end. They also say you never truly know how many charging cables you own until it’s time to pack them. Departure day for the younglings and their … Continue reading
Spanish retreat – Day 19
🇬🇧 Saharan dust, sardine trams & the sacred nap Early to bed, they say, means early to rise. What they neglect to mention is that this cheerful proverb applies to everyone in the household except the person who went to bed earliest. … Continue reading
I do it my way 