Out & About

A long drive up to Aboyne for SOUL 2. This was a fast and easy "urban" orienteering event through the small town (village) of Aboy...

First run in almost three months after taking some time off to let heels recover. Not Plantar Fascia this time I think but achilles problems...

Another walk round the route with fellow trustee Tricia. This time the weather was fabulous.

Cherry & Colin drove down to Manchester with Hannah's large coffee table in the boot of the car for a weekend helping Hannah with a ...

With many of the original cast this was a musical revival of the old TV show which I have vague positive memories of having probably seen so...

The original date of the walk was postponed due to bad weather so this was 1 week later with a reduced crew of just me and fellow trustee Ly...

One Day - the musical version - following quite closely previous book, film and TV versions - very good. Interesting set as well with transf...

Saturday 28 February - Departure very early for a 6 am Ryanair flight. All went smoothly. Bus from airport with a drop off just minutes from...

Our second trip to the Festival Theatre to see a show by the local amateur theatre group The Bohemians. Again very good with an enormous cas...

At the Festival Theatre.  

Avoided any travel today and instead visited the covered market, went on a short canal walk and had a nice lunch out at Premier Edition - th...

Lunchtime train to Orange (delay 50 minutes) and a wander to the Roman Theatre the main site in the town. Very impressive scale and conditio...

A river cruise on the Rhone today. Arrival in the boat at midday. Departure at 12.30. Three course meal and music. The weather was a bit rub...

Bargains on the trains today with 3 return tickets to Nimes for €6. We wandered in Nimes to Les Jardin de La Fontaine and climbed to the top...

A short train ride of about 20 minutes to Arles and a nice wander around the lovely town. We visited the Roman Arena and the Theatre plus th...

A day for exploring Avignon. A lovely town which is very quiet at this time of year. Visited the Bridge, Musee Angladon and the Musee Lapida...

An unrushed start to the day and a wander to the Gare de Lyon to catch the TGV to Avignon. Taxi to the apartment. Shopping. Cheese, ham, egg...

The morning Eurostar to Paris and then a walk to the hotel. We stayed at Le Boudoir des Muses which was very nice especially with our upgrad...

The first day of a holiday in Avignon with Colin, Cherry & Hannah with eco travel by rail. Colin & Cherry travelled first class LNER...

What felt like the first sunny day of the year and went out for a walk round the planned sponsored walk route for TES at the end of March. S...

A long overdue refresh of the oven with a similar model of AEG oven and a new Collingwood Security Lamp for the front garden which seems to ...

Oops no photos this year. Hannah visited us from 21 to 28 Decembers sleeping over at Max and Kasia's place. Max and Kasia were away for ...