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The Kimberley I: Darwin to Mount Elizabeth

Posted on December 5, 2016 by susanhockey

This is the third blog post on our round the world trip August – November 2016. It covers the first half of our drive through the Kimberley in north-west Australia. Go here for a picture gallery. Organizing the drive We … Continue reading →

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Ships and Dragons: Singapore to Darwin

Posted on November 30, 2016 by susanhockey

This is the second post on our round the world trip August – November 2016. Go here for a picture gallery. Deciding to take the cruise Booking the cruise from Singapore to Darwin on P&O Australia’s Pacific Eden was something … Continue reading →

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Kuala Lumpur and Singapore

Posted on November 29, 2016 by susanhockey

This is the first of several blog posts describing our round the world trip whch began on Tuesday 23 August 2016. The main reason for this trip was to see a lot more of Australia than we had done on … Continue reading →

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10 Hot Days in Turkey

Posted on August 8, 2016 by susanhockey

Go here for a picture gallery. In early May, when it looked like it might rain for ever, we decided it was time for some sun. We really like the Eastern Mediterranean. As we had spent 2 weeks in our … Continue reading →

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10 Fine Days in Scotland

Posted on August 1, 2016 by susanhockey

For more pictures from this trip, go here. Top of the agenda when our American friend Nancy came to stay in late May was a visit to Scotland. But first we had to see more of Yorkshire. After a very … Continue reading →

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A Cruise to the Western Caribbean

Posted on March 27, 2016 by susanhockey

More pictures are here – gallery revised on 1 November 2018 We’re not long back from 7 weeks in our house in Florida. In the last week of February we took a one-week cruise to the Western Caribbean on the … Continue reading →

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A Trip to Florida’s Forgotten Coast

Posted on December 11, 2015 by susanhockey

If you just want to see pictures from this trip, go here. We’re just back from 5 weeks at our house in Florida. Finally we got to take a trip we had planned for years, up to the Forgotten Coast. … Continue reading →

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Practicalities for Pensionable Roadtrippers

Posted on October 24, 2015 by susanhockey

Finding the way The RAC Routeplanner was very useful to get some idea of distances even though we rarely kept exactly to the routes it suggested. We used a 4-year old detailed road atlas of France and a less detailed … Continue reading →

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Bulgaria and Heading Home

Posted on October 24, 2015 by susanhockey

There are only a few pictures in this post. Go here if you just want to see all of the pictures for Bulgaria and heading home summer 2015. Warning: there are a lot of churches in this batch of photos. … Continue reading →

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Greece

Posted on October 18, 2015 by susanhockey

There are only a few pictures in this post. Go here if you want to see all of the pictures for Greece summer 2015. At last we were in Greece. The hotel in Igoumenitsa (one of only a very few) … Continue reading →

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