The Novotel at CDG airport was a good find. We slept well, ate a good breakfast and it was very easy to transfer in the monorail back to terminal 2f to collect our rental car for this part of the trip. The Europcar counter had an efficient registrations login PC…
The big ticket item for today was a visit to Colonial Williamsburg. Williamsburg was founded as the capital of the Virginia Colony in 1699. The young city grew quickly into the center of political, religious, economic, and social life in Virginia. With the establishment of the Willam and Mary college, Williamsburg…
When we left the USA in 2019 we fully expected to be back a year later to continue our 50 States bucket list…. but then, you know what happened … who could have expected a global pandemic. We were pretty lucky when the travel restrictions hit with the onset of…
One of the big inspiration for the Scotland part of our holiday this year was ehn Neil had come across some information about the North Coast 500 driving route.It’s is a 516-mile (830 km) scenic route around the north coast of Scotland, starting and ending at Inverness Castle. The route…
We had opted for the 8.30 sitting at breakfast this morning so we could get an early start on our drive around Skye. We were also keen to try to get a little ahead of the weather which started out grey but was reported to get gradually worse all day.…
We woke to a brighter day this morning and a wonderful full Scottish breakfast which included an excellent Black Pudding, you know you’re in Scotland when there’s black pudding on the menu…now I only need haggis and I’ll be happy 🙂 We didnt hang around though as we were…
We had to get up at, as Simon calls it, stupid-oclock to get to the airport in time to catch out flights from Keflavik airport. It was sad to say goodbye to Simon and Jatta but at least we know we will see them again in a couple of weeks…
Iceland certainly lived up to the hype today! We woke to more rain and drove out of Reykjavik in heavy showers which wasn’t very encouraging. However they tell you that if you don’t like the weather in Iceland just wait 5 minutes and it will change…and it certainly did! Throughout…
We’ve left the sun behind in Finland! After a leisurely breakfast we set out to see the sights of Reykjavik in a drizzly rain that lasted all day. A stroll down the main shopping street, Laugavegur , we checked out a selection of the ( many) souvenir stores before a…
Most of the day was spent in transit, Simon and Jatta met us in the lobby just after ten and we hit the road back to Helsinki airport. Everything went very smoothly with checkin and we had our Icelandair boarding passes all ready to go. The flight was a bit…
Jetlag is a beast! I suppose I was lucky that I slept through to 5am but there was no way my bodyclock was going to let me sleep any later. We had another slow start, with a leisurely breakfast and a bit of blogging but we decided to head outside…
A good night’s sleep in a proper bed is like heaven after 2 days of travel! The bed was comfy and breakfast was abundant – some interesting options on the breakfast buffet that are very familiar to Finns but new to us – Karelian Pies are an oval pastry tart…
