La Tour
Travel Blogs from Cargese
On the road again
.With our rest day behind us hips, backs, knees, feet and blisters all sorted the next two days were fairly easy walking days...wonderful spring colours with fields of yellow rapeseed and red poppies growing wild along the banks of the camino pathways, open countryside covered in Olive trees and Grape vines. The soil has changed from a light clay …
Fifty shades of Gray........Earl Gray Tea that is
We've made our way to Nuwara Eliya, on a very scenic three-hour train ride higher into the mountains. Nicknamed "Little England", this is tea country where several factories were built by the British in the 1800's. There are mountainsides upon mountainsides of neat rows of tea bushes. Quite beautiful and very, very green! We had a three-night …
On the way again...
Montreal-January 10- I'm surrounded by Africans! They must know I'm coming, and are preparing me for my arrival, n'est ce pas?? With a whole day to play, I decided to check out the local mall to pick up a couple of things.. The wonderful hotel staff arranged for the airport shuttle driver to not only take me there, but to pick me up after I …
The end of our holiday
Leaving quite early we made our way north towards the west side of Johannesburg. We mostly spent the day driving. It was a nice drive though fairly dry in some areas - a lot of cattle through here. At Randfontain we found our guest house and then headed out for dinner - a lovely pizza though not up to the standard of our 'Zanzibar' Pizza. Next …
Med Summer '12
We had a short break after our first couple of charter trips, so Jack and I ducked off to Lake Como for 3 days. We were driving from Naples so it was the most interesting, closest thing to do. It was beautiful! I was sure I was going to run into George Clooney, but alas, he wasn't at his stunning villa that weekend. Jack and I just drove to a few …
