I enjoyed my early morning coffee with a view of Lake Michigan , smooth and quiet this morning. Breakfast was a lighter, continental offering but it’s included in the room rate so we weren’t complaining. We’ve aquired a habit on our big road trips of doing without a substantial lunch…
It was lovely to have a view out over the lake this morning for breakfast, and great to hear a few messages from the kids. Mainly from Erin, reporing in on how Pepper had coped with her move to the new home in Newtown. After checking out we had around…
We popped down to the cafe nearby for breakfast again this morning. I’ve been so happy with my hotel choice, it’s very central, has a great view over the river, there’s an excellent breakfast place next door ( which is handy because the hotel rate didn’t include breakfast) and the…
We woke to a cloudy sky this morning and dodged some drizzly rain to get to the cafe neaby where we bought breakfast. It was popular and very busy but the service was quick and food was excellent. This morning we were keen to be on the 10.15am Urban Highlights…
Galena is such a pretty town! Before leaving this monring we drove down to see Ulysses S. Grant’s home, perched on a hill overlooking the town. It’s in a lovely setting and he must have counted himself lucky as it was gifted to him by the grateful people of Galena…
We were able to indulge in a later start this morning as our first stop for the day didn’t open until 10.00am and it was only 20 minutes away – we set off for the Williamsburg Outlet stores! Woo Hoo! I love Outlet shopping in the USA, we always manage…
I slept like a log last night! At breakfast we shared the room with a favourite son of Winterset, John Wayne. he was born here and so our first stop after leaving the hotel was his home which is now, naturally, a museum. Along the front path was a series…
We’re back! After three long years we’re finally returned to the USA again to work on our 50 states mega-mission. The first part of our night-before indulgence stay at the Sydney Rydges Airport was wonderful …. to toast the upcoming trip with some bubbly and watch the evening flights come…
We have transited through Singapore Airport on several previous occasions but this time we decided to do a brief stopover. The flight from Helsinki to Singapore was ( thanks again to Frequent Flyer points) in Business Class. Nice to have the preliminary bubbles and the lie flat bed for an…
We had a lazier start this morning and an easy breakfast in the apartment. Nearby there were two lovely lakes so we set off at around 11am for a stroll around the lakes and then up to the Temppeliaukio Rock Church. Excavated directly into solid rock, the Temppeliaukio church , completed in…
Yesterday was just a transit day, one of those boring days that comes up now again when travelling. Our route from Dublin to Helsinki was via Stockholm with SAS. BOTH flights were delayed so it was quite late before we finally arrived in Helsinki ( in the pouring rain! There’s…
Before coming to Belfast I knew that I wanted to learn some more about the “Troubles”, that incredibly turbulent time in Northern Ireland history that had been such common news on the news broadcasts when I was a teenager. So I booked us on a tour this morning, Paddy Campbell’s…
