There is always much excitement about the first day spent in a new city and our first day in Bordeaux was no exception. Fortified by breakfast we set out to explore and the first good thing is that Bordeaux has trams and Mrs Sixwheeler loves a good tram. We can catch a Ligne C tram…
Midway through the week and needed a break from all the touristy stuff so I took Mrs Sixwheeler shopping. She’d expressed an interest to investigate the differences between Zara shops in Spain and Zara shops in the UK. Thanks to the wonder of the internet I had located the Zara stores in Santa Cruz together…
Following rain and cold during the week, the sun was shining this morning so Mrs Sixwheeler and I went into Bath for a spot of shopping. We started with coffee as in “I’ll buy you a coffee” said Mrs S but follows it up with “… but you’ll have to pay for it as I’ve…
Last day of the holiday and yet again we wake up to lashing rain and howling wind, this year has not been an epic Skye trip. I remember a wetter one but this year has been so cold as well as wet and windy. Notwithstanding the weather people have managed to get out sometime every…
Bath Abbey. Today has been one of those brilliant, sunny, clear, bitterly cold winter days. We had things to do this morning but after lunch we decided to see what was going on in Bath, so Mrs Sixwheeler and I headed in to town. Mrs S was in shopping mode and found a bargain but…
Severn Crossing. Today was a triumph; Mrs Sixwheeler wanted to go Christmas shopping at the big retail park at Cribb’s Causeway on the western side of Bristol but she knows that I don’t much care for browsing. What happened was that I dropped her off at the John Lewis store then Maude and I drove…
Husband Créche. Mrs Sixwheeler took me shopping today and we came across this, which I thought was a brilliant idea and was keen to try it out. I was over-ruled and as a result ended up in Marks &Spencer abandoned in an armchair and surrounded by ladies’ underpinnings. I did get some very odd looks.…
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