Travel

We arrived at out hotel Due Torri (two towers) at 12-30. It was too early to check in so most of the party went to its fifth floor to enjoy the panoramic view and eat. The party is still finding its feet. One elderly lady at our table confessed she had difficulty in finding her words and with [...]

The relationship between the National Rust and airport security is not a happy one. One of of my colleagues left his Ipad there and yesterday’s Bob Tickler’s was taken in error by a fellow traveller from the carousel after security checking and then departed on his flight to Dubrovnik. A [...]

A good friend of mine who, despite attending Cambridge University, is deeply knowledgeable on Oxford had arranged a day there for me as a belated birthday present. We took the coach known as the Oxford Tube from Victoria. I do not often use coach travel but it was comfortable with a table for 4, a [...]

Somerset Maugham observed that, as we have so few summer days in Britain, it is only fair that ours should be finer than anywhere else in the world. Thus on one of the few hot days – or rather one without rain – I was delighted yesterday to have organised a trip to Wakehurst Gardens in [...]

Yesterday – our final one – we made the self-same stroll we did on arrival on Monday but with a great deal more assurance at to the topography. We crossed all 3 canals – Herrengraacht, Keizergraacht and Singel – and entered the old town through Dam square. Almost all the [...]

When Alice Mansfield informed us she was off to Amsterdam to see the Rembrandt Exhibition at the Rijskmuseum she soon found ready takers with Daffers, Bob Tickler and myself. I was left to deal with the travel arrangements and sitting on board a BA flight and being informed there is an hour and [...]

Yesterday the final remnants of the Rust party left Nice. It was a sad adieu as the apartment we rent may not be rentable again though Le gardien Frank doubted whether it actually was to be sold. Our fourth year in Nice supported the theory of diminishing returns. We have visited all Nice had to [...]

Travelling back from Nice yesterday on easyJet, I reflected on how much air travel has changed in my lifetime. When I first travelled by plane in the sixties, a national carrier like British Airways was the symbol of the nation and would not descend so low as to charter or budget travel. Buccaneers [...]