Bophut – Ibis Hotel
Friday (19 June 2015)
We started with our by now normal weekday morning routine of getting up late-ish, having coffee on the patio while catching up on some reading, news and e-mails, then going to the gym for an hour, shower, have breakfast and then start our daily work for a few hours in the afternoon. By the time we start working it is normally somewhere around noon. Continue reading
Crystal Bay
Friday (12 June 2015)
We woke up this morning feeling a bit rough around the edges after last night’s shenanigans. Probably not a good idea to overindulge too often, but it was well worth it. To get the booze out of the system we decided to do a 45 minute gym workout which was great. Walking back to the apartment, passing a group of English holidaymakers having a drink at the restaurant, the one woman exclaimed “You must be mad !” when she Continue reading
Choeng Mon Beach
Wednesday (3 June 2015)
The alarm screeched to life at 04:30. Ouch ! Last night we went to a Turkish restaurant for the last supper, the last supper on South African soil for a while, but I could still feel the effect of the overindulgence (not the booze, mind you) from the previous night. Time to get up, mind was willing, the body not. Then it dawned on me, this was the day I have been planning for twenty plus years, the Continue reading
Salamanca—2
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Woke up early, did breakfast at the hotel and took a brisk walk to the Guggenheim Museum. Some 20 minutes later we were face to face with this icon. The architecture of the building, it’s history, the permanent exhibition, the latest exhibition by David Hockney, it is all just too much to take in at once. (Picture: Bilbao 1, 2, etc. The exhibition by David Hockney is in one word, incredible, an absolute must-see. Continue reading
Deba—3
Monday, May 28, 2012
Woke up too late for breakfast at the hotel, so decided to have something to eat in town. Remembered seeing a Vodafone shop the previous evening so went there to get a sim for the ipad. Thirty Euro later I had a sim installed, valid for three months, loaded with 1GB of data, not bad. Continue reading
San-sabastian-old-town–3
Sunday, May 27, 2012
We had a pleasant breakfast after which we packed up and left Cadaques, ostensibly straight for San Sabastian, on the north coast of Spain, a long drive. But, at the last minute we decided to go north along the coast to El Port de la Selva. This is a decision I will never regret. The hotel manager where we stayed mentioned that it was sort of similar to Cadaques, but that was really an understatement. Driving into El Port de la Selva one really just feels at home with the Continue reading
Cadaques-early-evening
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Had a very pleasant flight on air France. Air hosts and hostesses were very friendly, a refreshing change from some airlines who believe their personnel’s “stiff upper lip” attitude can be fobbed off as professionalism. Well done Air France.
Transited via Paris and arrived in Barcelona at around 7:30. Picked up our luggage and proceeded to Avis to pick up the rental car that was booked. With five customers in front of us Continue reading