Thomas Hardy’s Cottage

Yesterday we decided to take a drive down to Dorchester and visit Thomas Hardy’s cottage at Higher Bockhampton. I really don’t know why anyone goes on the roads in England at this time of year, but we fetched up at the new visitor centre and car park. This is a great improvement since my last…

Tuscany 2015 – Part 2

Sorry not to have been blogging but it’s been so hot that it’s been making me lazy; as hot as in Kerala earlier in the year but without the humidity thank goodness. So we get up late, read a lot, eat, lie by the pool, eat, eat that sort of thing that doesn’t make for…

Tuscany 2015 – Part One

It all started at a cold and damp Bristol Airport in chaos. We’d allowed plenty of time but were nearly brought down by others; immense queues at Check In meant that we all ended up at the gallop to the gate. Annoyingly the problem had been caused by two coachloads on a school trip who…