Travel

Today, I’m leaving for Grenada as part of a Rust Party comprising Duggie Heath, Daffers and Nancy. This time, ably assisted by Nancy, I organised the trip. It’s a British Airways package and I can see why the airline is only rated 33rd alongside Kenya Air. They had my wrong email and so [...]

The subject of Internet frustration is one which regularly fills up our pages. I experienced this big time yesterday with a booking I made through British Airways Holidays to the West Indies. I duly completed my registration a few months ago and paid a deposit online. Having heard nothing at all, I [...]

The general view of the three Rusters in Las Canarias was that this was a successful trip. Indeed Bob was saying that rather than visit Cape Town next January for the South Africa v England Test – being his 5th trip there – he would be happier to return to Lanzarote and Tenerife. We had [...]

Today the party is leaving Lanzarote from Tenerife. We liked Lanzarote a lot, our only real beef was the hotel with it’s deficient key cards and buffet. Bob says he will come back but as regards hotel will move up a star. My friends took me to lunch at Brisa Marina a popular sea food restaurant [...]

Yesterday we went on a coach tour to learn more about the places of the extraordinary Cesar Manrique. The words ‘eco-friendly’ turn me off for me as it normally means someone is getting high and mighty about the environment. However I admire a man such as Manrique, who imports into his [...]

We are now fully settled and into our routine. No complaints from the party of sunburn, mosquito bites,upset tummy and generally we like the hotel. After our morning dip, we made our early morning walk into the Marina. It was noticeable that much was closed. I had forgotten how it was in the UK [...]