After breakfast we all boarded buses for a guided tour of the northern part of Bucharest. It’s the leafy, wealthy part that includes the central administrative part as well as the older pre-Soviet buildings. Our guide was good but a bit hazy on some of the detail. What came through was the recency of the […]
Day 20 – to Bucharest, Romani. 29 June
We had a taxi booked for 8.15 and the driver was in reception when we went down. That’s the only good thing I can say about him. He was sullen, totally incapable of working out how to Jenga our bags into his enormous Tesla boot and refused any suggestions we had to offer. In the […]
Day 19: Nice 28 June
We set off reasonably early to walk up to this fortress park place where the views are great. It was hot. We stopped at a cafe near the port and had a coffee and croissant and went to the restaurant that was recommended which is on the other side of the port. It’s not that […]
Day 18: Saturday 27 June. To Nice
We didn’t sleep well as it was very hot. Mike eventually opened our bedroom door just to let the cool air in more easily. We had offered take Jen to Calvi airport for her flight to Istanbul via Marseille. She wanted to be there by 5.30am as that was just over 2 hours before her […]
Day 17 L’lle Rousse: Friday 26 June
Hamish and Sarah drove into Calvi so the rest of us enjoyed looking after Finn. He is a genius baby and so entertaining. He is a real happy chappie and ultra busy all the time, although he is happy to have an hour or 2 nap each afternoon. We took him to the beach early […]
Days 15 – 16 L’lle Rousse and Calvi
On Wednesday we had a pretty chill day. Pauline, Sarah and Hamish took Finn to the beach early, before it got too hot and we joined them later. There are some lovely little beaches nearby and they seem to be free. The one we went to had lots of shade (during the morning anyway) and […]