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Travels and Out and About in 2025

Our 'Pie and Gravy' Weekend in Yorkshire (Jeanettes 60th)  Here at Park Run in Fountains Abbey

    New Year in India

    Looking out at Goa Beach


    Breakfast was a relaxing affair looking out across the beach

    Mumbai Hotel


    Indulging ourselves by the pool in our hotel in Mumbai - January 2025

    Waiting for dinner in Goa

    Lovely warm atmosphere dining on the beach most evenings

    Waiting for his Indian delight

    Waiting for his Indian delight

    Pete used to wait for me to order then taste a bit of my dinner. If he liked the taste he would order the following night !

    Street from hotel to beach

    Waiting for his Indian delight

    Street from hotel to beach

    Scooters galore and very interesting shops along the road from beach to hotel

    Goa Hotel

    Waiting for his Indian delight

    Street from hotel to beach

    Minutes from beach our Goa hotel was plain simple but safe and warm within a palm tree courtyard

    2023

    Swimming Kleidemonde. Eastern Cape January 2023

      2022 Norway Adventure

      The Four of Us

      2022

      Sweden June 2022 Visiting Ben's Godsons in their new home

      Our itinerant Australian friends have now left sunny Australia to live in Vasteras Sweden. We visited for the first time in June 2022

      Norway August 2022 Holiday away with friends

      In August we embarked on a 14 day adventure in Norway with our good friends James and Jeanette.  A pricey holiday but an experience we are pleased to have had.

      Lake District July 2022 for our 10th Anniversary

      On 7th July 2022 we celebrated the 10th Anniversary of our Civil Partnership and took time out in the Lake District

      Borough Hill Leicestershire - One of many walks

      Borough Hill Leicestershire - One of many walks

      We are always out for walks whether in sunshine or very cold. This is Burough Hill near Melton Mowbray - very high up !

      Cruise Liner Gerainger Fiord

      Borough Hill Leicestershire - One of many walks

      Cruise Liner Gerainger Fiord

      Quiet peace and fresh air disturbed by these great cruise ships in the Norwegian Fijords.  We sat watching them turn around with only meters to spare !

      Memory 7th July 2012

      Borough Hill Leicestershire - One of many walks

      Cruise Liner Gerainger Fiord

      The day we got 'married' . 

      This year 2022 we both celebrated milestone birthdays. Peter 70 and Ben 40.

      Malta New Year 2020

      Reflective mood on battlements in Valetta

        Travels 2019

        Bruges Easter 2019 with the family

          New Year 2019

          Fishing

          Room with a View !

          The Two of Us

          Pete trying his hand at stick fishing on a Sri Lankan beach.

          The Two of Us

          Room with a View !

          The Two of Us

          One of our excursions was to a tea plantation. 

          Room with a View !

          Room with a View !

          On the way to a temple

          Our hotel room view and also from the beach loungers by the pool was amazing and truly relaxing.

          On the way to a temple

          Last Night in Sri Lanka

          On the way to a temple

          A young lad hardly looking more than 16 took us on a boat trip to a Buddhist Temple

          Last Night in Sri Lanka

          Last Night in Sri Lanka

          Last Night in Sri Lanka

          On out last night in Sri Lanka we stayed in a five star hotel in Colombo.( Its sister hotel ext door was attacked in Easter 2019)

          A day out in Galle

          Last Night in Sri Lanka

          Last Night in Sri Lanka

          We spent a day in Galle - 5 miles or so down the road. If you ever want an experience try a Sri Lankan bus !

          Sri Lanka New Year 2019

            Remembering 100 Years On

            Ypres

            Our summer holiday this year began with a trip to Ypres ,in Belgium. We went to visit some of the battlegrounds and memorials to the Great War.

            Tynecott

            At Tynecott Cemetery we found the name of Albert Morris one of Ben's relatives killed in WWI

            Trenches

            We visited several museums in and around Ypres and saw some of the trenches

            Belgium August 2018

            Peter posing in Ghent

              Australia December 2017

              Cradle Mountain

                South Africa 2017

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                  Bike Tour The Ardennes 2017


                    Ardennes Adventure

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                    Riga, Latvia August 2017

                    Cathedral. Riga

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