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Jayne Eckersall

Jayne Eckersall

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    • 1st Holiday of 2025

      Relaxation Sunday

      8. kesäkuuta, Kroatia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

      We woke up to what looks to be another warm and relaxing Sunday. Even the traffic going past our hotel 🏨 has taken the day off. So I was able to photograph 📸 the murals painted on the wall on the main road near our hotel. We managed to get our "own" table for breakfast this morning in the shade on the terrace. After breakfast, we had our first chance to chat with our Tui representative, but he wasn't much help by saying most tours start from Split!!! So, slightly none the wiser we made our way back to the sunbeds.
      Later in the day and after thinking the mid-day sun was cooling, we set off on a walk 🚶‍♂️ 🚶‍♀️ around the bay towards Stobreč, and it's marina we can see from our hotel. Unfortunately, after about a mile, the heat 🥵 beat us, and we retreated back to our sunbeds, but not before I managed to get my mum a postcard. The next goal is to buy a stamp!!
      As the sun started it's decent and we were dressed for the evening. we headed for the Lav Marina for a pizza 🍕 at Conlemanis. Before walking on further around our local bay in search of other restaurants to try during our stay.      Lue lisää

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    • 1st Holiday of 2025
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      1st Full Day

      7. kesäkuuta, Kroatia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

      Woke up to a beautiful sunny and quiet Saturday morning around the hotel and on the sea front. Well, quiet until we went for breakfast looking and for a nice outside but shaded table. As there wasn't one free we (unwittingly) stole somebody elses, after I saw a table being cleaned. As Jayne and I merrily ate our breakfast, the original occupants came back to retrieve a phone hidden under a placemat and sat at another table - oprosti ! (sorry!).
      After breakfast, we took our lives in our hands walking 🚶‍♂️ 🚶‍♀️ along the side of a busy road (one side at a standstill 🚗 🚗 🚗) to the local supermarket for a couple of hotel room essentials 🍷🍷🍻.
      Back at the hotel, we changed and found a couple of sun loungers for a spot of serious relaxation.
      After a swim 🏊‍♂️ 🏊‍♀️ in the pool followed by the obligatory lie in the sun to get dry we went for a walk down the Promenade and stopped off at the beach restaurant of the Hotel San Antonio for a lovely Greek Salad 🥗 over looking the waterfront. (Photo #8).
      After walking back to our hotel 🏨 and our sun beds, we remained there for the rest of the afternoon until it was time to get changed for our dinner reservation at the restaurant Port 74.
      As the sun went down Jayne and I enjoyed a lovely fish 🐟 meal of Oven Baked Sliced Sea Bass Fillet for Jayne; accompanied by Eggplant Salad & Grilled Shrimp, whilst I had the Grilled Brill Fish Fillet with Sea Asparagus, Spinach, spring Onion, Tomatoes and Glazed Carrots in a lemon butter sauce 😋      Lue lisää

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    • 1st Holiday of 2025

      Travel Day

      6. kesäkuuta, Kroatia ⋅ 🌙 19 °C

      Our 1st holiday of 2025, yes, this is our 3rd trip abroad, but the big trip in January wasn't a relaxing holiday as there was too much to see and do! Prague last month was really a city break long weekend away, so again, not a relaxing holiday!! 😀
      So here we are in Croatia 🇭🇷 at the hotel Le Meridien Lav in Podstrana on the outskirts of Split.
      The day started well with our ride 🚕 to the airport 🛫 arriving early. At 01:45 am as you would expect the roads were extremely quiet and so by 02:50 we had checked our bags in and were heading through security and onto the departures area where the San Marco was about to open. After a leisurely "full" English breakfast with a coffee ☕️ chaser, we left about 90 minutes later. At 05:30, our gate number was announced, and by 06:50, we were taking off, leaving the rain 🌧 and Manchester behind as we jetted to the sunshine 🌞 and split. Bags 🎒 🎒 collected and transport found we arrived at the hotel 45 minutes later and yes Croatia has Friday traffic as well. 🚗 🚗 🚗
      Fortunately, our room was ready; some 4 1/2 hrs before the formal check-in time. So unpack, check out the pool, and by midday, we are enjoying our first Croatian beers 🍻 🍺 🍺
      After a bite to eat, we relaxed for the rest of the afternoon on the stony beach, treading gingerly to the waters edge for a cool down.
      Apart from what looked like a church on fire on the hillside, the day ended with a lovely sunset 🌇
      Footnote: we later found out that the church wasn't on fire but actually taking part in a religious ceremony of burning frankincense resin a well-known practice; unless you are not Croatian 🇭🇷, Where it's used for its aroma and believed to purify the air. Burning frankincense involves heating the resin, typically on charcoal or on a censer, which releases a fragrant smoke.      Lue lisää

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    • Prague

      On The Way Home 🏡

      19. toukokuuta, Tšekin tasavalta ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

      After breakfast, we checked out, leaving our bags behind the reception desk ready for our 1:00 pm taxi 🚕 back to the airport. Not wandering too far from the hotel, we came across one of the oldest brewery's in Prague. Soon enough, it was time to head back and onwards to the airport 🛫 for our flight home. Which all went extremely smoothly, and by 18:50 that evening we were on our train heading out of Manchester Airport bound for Poulton-le-Fylde.Lue lisää

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    • Prague

      I Spy 👁

      18. toukokuuta, Tšekin tasavalta ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

      After lunch at the Hotel Jalta, Ian and I went on the Cold War Museum tour in a bunker within the foundations of the Hotel Jalta.
      In 1989 a fallout shelter was discovered under Jalta`s basement. It is spread over two floors with a capacity to accommodate 150 people. Intended to be used as a headquarters for the Warsaw Pact countries, it is believed that the Jalta hotel was purposefully built as a disguise to hide the bunker. The shelter was later used by the Secret Police to spy on hotel guests and foreign dignitaries. Now converted into a Cold War Museum.Lue lisää

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    • Prague

      A Step Back in Time

      18. toukokuuta, Tšekin tasavalta ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

      After breakfast and with less than an hour remaining on our Hop On Hop Off Bus Tour, we jumped on the next bus, getting off at the stop near the Dancing House. 1st point of interest was the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius where in 1942, during World War II, the cathedral was the scene of a last stand made by SOE-trained Czech and Slovak agents involved in the assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. SS-Brigadeführer Karl Fischer von Treuenfeld commanded the Waffen-SS forces that stormed the church on 18 June 1942. After a fierce gun battle, two of the Czechoslovaks were killed, and the rest committed suicide to avoid capture. There is a museum in the church crypt dedicated to them as national heroes.
      After a coffee in the Dancing House cafe and a quick saunter in the next street to see the extensive architecture we headed off to Wenceslas Square, one of the main city squares and where many historical events have occurred, a traditional setting for demonstrations, celebrations, and other public gatherings. At the top of the square is the National Museum; a sandstone building pittered with repaired bullet holes in from the 20th August 1968 failed uprising against Soviet led communism that resulted in a brutal invasion by East German, Polish and Bulgarian military that swiftly bringing any chances of reform to an end.      Lue lisää

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    • Prague

      Walking up an Appetite

      17. toukokuuta, Tšekin tasavalta ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

      Walking back to the hotel, we came across more works of art and for friends Ian and Christine, a local delicacy, ice cream 🍦 chimneys. Later that evening, we walked back towards Charles Bridge to a lovely little restaurant 🍽 we had come across the previous day, and the food was well worth the day and a trip back in time.Lue lisää

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    • Prague

      Hop On .... Hop Off.....

      17. toukokuuta, Tšekin tasavalta ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

      Dressed in warmer clothes and after a quick "brew" the cafe of the Smetana Hall; a famous and largest concert hall in Prague, we hopped on the Blue Hop On Hop Off Bus 🚌 Tour around Prague. Arriving at Prague Castle, we swapped buses and took the Red route bus tour before jumping off at U Bruskych Kasaren and walking across the Manesuv Must Bridge back into the old town. We walked towards the Quadrio Shopping Centre and the giant 10.6 metre high rotating head of Franz Kafka, (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) a novelist and writer from Prague who was Jewish, Austrian, and Czech and wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature.Lue lisää

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    • Prague

      A Liquid Lunch and Walk before Dinner

      16. toukokuuta, Tšekin tasavalta ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

      Arriving on the other side of the Vitava River in Lesser Town, we decided against walking up the hill to Prague Castle and went for a liquid lunch as in a beer 🍺 and soup 🍲. Just a few yards from our empty bowls and glasses was the Lennon Wall. After the 1980 murder of John Lennon a mural of Lennon was painted by an unknown artist onto the wall and as more people expanded upon it, the wall slowly became a place for free expression of then communist Czechoslovakia.
      As cool Prague became decidedly cold Prague we headed back towards our hotel and the shopping 🛍 centre to buy warmer clothes, before heading out to the Ginger & Fred Restaurant at the top of the Dancing 💃 🕺 House for a lovely meal in celebration of Ian abd Christine's 70th birthdays 🎂 🥳 🎉      Lue lisää

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    • Prague

      A Morning of Exploring

      16. toukokuuta, Tšekin tasavalta ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

      After breakfast, we set off to see what the city had for us. We walked along a predetermined route to take in as many sights as possible.
      Turning left outside the hotel and left again, we found our 1st landmark; the Powder Tower.
      Completed in 1475, the Powder Gate Tower or Powder Gate is a Gothic tower that formerly served as a gunpowder store. It is one of the original city gates and separates the Old Town from the New Town.
      After walking 🚶‍♀️ 🚶🚶‍♀️🚶underneath the huge gated archway we carried on down Celetna Street towards Staromestske Namesti and; established in 1338 the Old Town, with its unique astronomical clock — known as the Orloj — where, every hour between 8 am and 11 pm, the Twelve Apostles appear. We arrived just in time to see the Apostles appear and dissappear at the two windows above the clock. More than a little disappointed, we then made our way to join the crowds on the 15th Century Charles Bridge.      Lue lisää

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