Monthly Archives: June 2018

The 28 or so hours traveling here has proven to be more than worth itWhile the flight from Houston to Santiago was overnight and in the dark the three hours from Santiago to Punta Arenas were spent winging over the Andes. Amazing is a word overused i

Hola loyal blog readers Let me begin this entry with a WARNING the following includes a slightly graphic description of a medical procedure. If that kind of thing makes your stomach lurch skip down to the 4th paragraph. haha now you're all curious an

8th February Cusco The Inca Capital Peru The City of Cuzco also Cusco at 3400 m above sea level is located in a fertile alluvial valley fed by several rivers in the heart of the Central Peruvian Andes. Cusco was the religious and a

Well the time is almost upon us when we drive to Portsmouth load us all and Harvey onto a Ferry and head across the Bay of Biscay and before anyone says anything we have most definitely been informed how rough this route can be but it beats several day

So lets go to Scotland for a Month well that was the plan but a great celebration stopped us heading north until party date of the 27th of May. So we filled in our time with family and friends and had a great week visiting Fi and Doug in Northampton Dawn

Water clocks were used to mark a limited time interval. They above all marked the time of studying and of teaching and were used by sailors to calculate the speed of a ship and by priests to limit the length of homilies. Well I have to say an enorm

This morning I took the Funicolare ZeccaRighi. This is a funicular railway in Genoa connecting the Largo della Zecca on the edge of Genoa's historic centre to several stations on the slope of the Righi hill. After reaching Righi I walked up a hill a