For around a dozen years or so, I have had a very dapper, vintage loving ex-pat living in the afore titled City, friend. A kindred spirit of sorts who has spent many an hour chatting amiably online with me. He is not only a wonderful correspondent, he is erudite, intelligent, witty and when you…

My blogger wifey Boo messaged me a month or so ago and asked if I had ever been to the Tower of London. My answer was that I certainly had, but when I was around 11 years old and I really didn’t remember it that well. So, she asked if I fancied a day…

After two full days in Vienna we woke up early on the Saturday morning as we had scheduled a day trip to a neighbouring Country, Slovakia. A tour of the Capital, Bratislava was the theme of the day and we were very excited to see it. We had pre-booked a tour before we left…

Waking quite early, we headed to breakfast again and made the decision to visit Tivoli Park which was around a 10 minute walk from the Hotel. Although there had been a large amount of snow deposited, the streets and roads were pretty much clear. We walked across some major roads and entered Tivoli Park.…

Saturday saw us getting up relatively early for breakfast before an 8am pickup by the tour company, Slovenia Explorer Matevž had arranged a tour to Lake Bled where there is a beautiful church on an island in the middle of the lake, and also a castle where you get amazing views down onto the…