For the first time I was travelling with Lufthansa via Frankfurt because I was flying from Birmingham.  It was a…

Sint Maarten or SXM, which it is confusingly referred to on maps etc, is an island a lot of celebrities…

When you cross over the border from Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan, the first thing you notice are cars and then the…

Think of towering snowy peaks like something out of a fairy tale, vistas that extend as far as the eye…

I last wrote in June.  Getting J2 out the door to Cairo took a lot of energy and organisation – mainly…

I am an honorary Grandma.  Bear and Adele had baby G last week and I am going to see him…

Cairo is full of cars, broken, belching, beeping cars, bumper to bumper – a jumbled slow moving frenzy of we…

I realise we last met on the 12th November just before you went away.  I have dated two different men in…

I would definitely recommend Vietnam.  They did not really open up to tourism until the 1990s, but are now working…

I said last month was a struggle month, but in some ways August has been worse. The most traumatic news…

July has been a struggle month. A* is currently home.  She hasn’t changed, but does seem more content and happy with…

I haven’t got a lot to report.  I have just got back from a week in Gran Canaria which was lovely…