Having found the best flights to Barcelona before Vikki had a chance to say 'is it sangria time?' I'd paid for the flights and started searching one of the many accommodation apps on my phone. Before the end of play we had decided on our accommodation. The Medplaya Esmeraldas Aparthotel. The first time we stayed in Tossa our hotel was a near neighbour of the Esmeraldas, from the terrace of our most inhospitable hotel we observed guests coming and going all the time and they l

We planned a micro tour of Wales, a micro tour consisting of 6 nights. Those of you who have been with us for more than a year will know all about our abandoned camping trip to Wales last year and the 'stuck in the mud in a field full of cows capers' that preceded our abandonment of our tent in the early hours of the first morning in Pembrokeshire. Well it was that trip that prompted the purchase of a 13 year old Honda Step Wagon; a large 8 seat vehicle made specifically for

I have a love of writing. I usually only indulge myself when I am on holiday. Some people read when they are on holiday, instead I write. I write mostly observational stuff, it starts out a bit like a travel journal but usually ends up describing the nature of the people and things around us. Really bad photographs, of things unrelated, usually accompany my ramblings. I make no excuses for my lazy and mostly ungrammatical paragraphs and poor spelling (despite a good grammar s