It doesn’t seem like a week but, apparently it is, and this is our last day here. After a cloudy (still warm) start this morning the cloud has, as the afternoon wears on, cleared a fair bit and, as I…

Another very pleasant day today (which apparently is a Saturday!) all the better for being only lightly planned. It also helped that the weather remains warm, sunny and very calm. Our first port of call was Blandy’s Wine Lodge in…

The days fly by when on holiday don’t they? It is hard to believe we only have 2 more full days here. Day 4 was, as it often is in new places, the one where we applied the knowledge gained…

Today was up the hill day for us when we visited the Monte Palace Tropical Garden. That we even attempted it was testament to the bravery of my beloved wife Ally who, once again, boarded a cable car for the…

Yesterday (Tuesday) ended quite well really – our ‘Jet2Holidays Customer Helper’ Pedro turned out to be really helpful giving us tips on how best to do the things we wanted to do. Following that there was the hotel’s “Welcome to…

Emboldened by the fact that my previous thing looked OK when I posted it to Facebook I will get right into today’s exploits. The day has been shaped so far by the weather forecasts – all of which predicted rain…

I am testing out a new (easier for me) way to share my usual holiday adventures because Facebook is being a real pain and making it difficult to do stuff the same way I have for ages. Basically it is…