Whales and fast jets

This morning we went out into the Atlantic on a catamaran on a whale watching trip. I wasn't expecting to see any, but after an hour we met first a group of beaked whales, then a pod of pilot whales.Read more
This morning we went out into the Atlantic on a catamaran on a whale watching trip. I wasn't expecting to see any, but after an hour we met first a group of beaked whales, then a pod of pilot whales.Read more
This trip and the last one in Bulgaria have been pretty full on. Maybe the next one will be sitting by the pool and reading a book!
The last time we were in Turin, the new Egyptian museum was only half finished, even so it still took us 3 hours to get round it. Now it's complete and twice the size, no surprise it took us justRead more
We caught the high-speed train from Florence to Turin, this starts in Naples and travels across Italy to Florence, Bologna, Milan and finally Turin. It is very comfortable and goes at 300 km /hr.Read more
Just some pics around Florence. You can why the painters were so good at painting the sky.
I saw the highlights of the Uffizzi a few years ago when we came with Janet and Davina and don't share Tim's interest in Renaissance art, so wandered round Florence and went to the ArchaeologicalRead more
Breakfast in the sun on our terrace, lovely - so it was difficult to drag ourselves up and out, but I'd planned to spend all day in the Uffizi gallery and lynette was going to the archaeologicalRead more
We have water coming from the skies here but no whale pods to admire just pea pods from the market. That jet in the blue sky seems unreal compared to the heavy cloud over Wendover. [Eve]