First stop for today was the Sandia Peak Tramway, a cable car the takes passengers from the outskirts of Albuquerque suburbs up to the heights of Sandia Peak, over 10,000 feet above sea level. We were fortunate to arrive just in time to leap on the cabin as the doors…
Last night we had a pleasant dinner at the hotel restaurant but as usual the servings were enormous! I’d love to have been able to finish my Southwestern Chicken ( spicy but delicious!) but there was just no way I could fit all that food in my stomach. Afterwards we…
We had better luck with our National Park today! Guadalupe Mountains National Park lies only 43 miles south west of Carlsbad Caverns and it’s a new one for us. We arrived at the first visitor area by 9.30, ready to hike a part of the McKittrick Canyon Trail. It was…
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the American National Parks system so it’s appropriate ( but totally coincidental!) that today we planned to visit Carlsbad National Park. But sometimes plans go awry… We slept in a little later than usual this morning, and didn’t leave the hotel till after 9.…
353 days ago I logged on the the Qantas website and blew an awful lot of Qantas Frequent Flyer points on 2 First Class tickets to Dallas, and I’d been keenly anticipating the flight ever since! As it turns out it was a real blessing as not only have I…
Venice is definitely sinking, even the rats are leaving… Our last morning in Italy we decided to sleep in and get ourselves organized to checkout at 11am. We enjoyed our final breakfast in the pretty little breakfast room, our last croissants. We knew the rain was heavier this morning than anything we’d…
The rain was falling lightly this morning and the tide was high again which made things a bit interesting in St Marks Square…. The view from the Bridge of Sighs We toured the Palazzo Ducale first thing, fortunately skipping the line with the Museum pass that we had picked up…
Thanks to double glazing and the shutters in our windows we slept a bit later this morning and thus arrived at the breakfast room at peak hour, it’s the first time we’ve had to wait a little for a table but the bacon and scrambled eggs were worth the wait.…
Despite a comfy bed, I had a shocking night last night. I woke almost every 2 hours, a combination of cigarette smoke drifting in the open window, an early morning coughing fit, an overdose of breakfast prunes having an explosive result in the middle of the night (!), an inconsiderate…
I don’t think I mentioned our head waiter at dinner last night, he was quite a character with a very superior manner but perfectly correct and polite. This morning he greeted us by name at breakfast and directed us to our table with a flourish before snapping his fingers and…
We’ve had all four seasons today. We woke to low cloud and grey skies again in Lake Como which followed us all the way along our drive north along the lakes edge. The drive alternated between pretty views our across the lake and long stretches in tunnels that whipped us…
It’s not hard to see why the lakes are so popular, even on a damp grey morning , the view across the water is just lovely. I’m sorry we have not seen it in better weather but I’m still very happy we came. Heading out on the lake ferry. We…
