January 2026 Day 20 Thursday 1 A windy New Year I hear the new year fireworks but they don’t wake me. Another calm, sunny day, just warm enough for breakfast on our balcony at 8am – there is no morning exercise on New Year’s Day. Out soon after the bike centre opens at 10.30 collectingContinue reading “Lanzarote to Scotland”
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By Ferry to Lanzarote
Day 8 Saturday 20 Ferry from Cadiz Long walk through the port quite alarming in search of the Armas premises which are modest and remote. Ports have a character all their own and this one reminds me of examples near home. About 11am we are put through luggage scanning and loaded into a taxi forContinue reading “By Ferry to Lanzarote”
I quite like “payday”
What’s your favorite word?
Journalism As we see reports today of another five journalists killed in Gaza, your question prompts me to observe how important their profession is to our society and to record my admiration for the courage shown by so many, often at high personal cost.
By train to Germany Part III
Day 12 Ulm to Sigmaringen Awake just before our 7 am alarm. Glad to be away from the soft bed and black cupboards. J decides we don’t have time for our six minute transfer between Neu Ulm and Ulm so we walk to Ulm for the 8.17 train which gets us to Sigmaringen at 9.30Continue reading “By train to Germany Part III”
By train to Germany part II
Day 5 Dresden to Nuremberg Despite the unusually late night for us – 11pm by the time we were back in the hotel – we don’t sleep very late and so are underway in our 8am taxi by 7.59. The 8.52 is double decker and first class is comfortable – the guard serves coffee. ButContinue reading “By train to Germany part II”
Train Travel Blogs
Another off-topic series of pages the main purpose of which is to introduce travel blogs by Interrail, starting with a trip in April/May 2025: By Train to Germany Part I By Train to Germany Part II By Train to Germany Part III then, December 25/January 26: By train to Cadiz By Ferry to Lanzarote LanzaroteContinue reading “Train Travel Blogs”
By train to Germany
April 2025 Day 1 Edinburgh to Paris At Waverley Station in time to get the 8 am LNER to Kings Cross – half an hour earlier than we have booked but this flexibility is the benefit of the Interrail pass. Enjoyable trip planning our stay in Dresden – the Military Museum and its modern extensionContinue reading “By train to Germany”
Japan Notes
This page is designed to bring together information about Japanese publishers of undivided backs. There are four periods of Japanese cards up to the end of WWII: Period I. Undivided back: October 1900 to 27 March 1907 Period II. 1/3 divided back: 28 March 1907 to March 1918 Period III. 1/2 divided back: 郵便はかき: March 1918 to February 1933Continue reading “Japan Notes”
Feel better for having done it
What’s the most fun way to exercise? It doesn’t have to be fun to be fun .
undivided-back postcards 