Yesterday in Berlin we saw the famous sights that represented the Old Eastern Germany in Check Point Charlie, the Brandenburg Gate and the remnants of the wall. This morning I visited one that is very clear in my mind thanks to the Harry Palmer cold war spy films starring Michael Caine. In one of his...

Vulga…………….no not me ……….the car. The Vulga is the famous car made in Russia and whenever you think of movies about Russia you see these big ugly black cars bumping past the Kremlin. However, having spent the last 9 hours I saw more BMW ’s and Mercedes...

I just went through security which was manned by someone who made me take off my shoes. Now considering I have been walking since 8 am up and down the hills of Tallinn my feet smell like Gerard Deperdeaux’s refrigerator………….cheese topped with extra cheese. So, there I was...

It’s now 5:05 pm and our luggage was just unceremoniously dumped in front of us without a word of sorry for keeping you waiting for nearly 2 hours. Now we are standing in a long line to check in again to Helsinki with Estonia Air, which knowing my luck, will be sending our suitcases to [...]

Hi Everyone, We had some technicial problems yesterday and weren’t able to post John’s picture. But all is fixed now, so here they are. ShareThis

I looked at the plane and immediately knew it was not a good day to be my underwear………….the airline was called Comm Air and where normally you would have big powerful jet engines there were two little ceiling fans stuck to the wing. It was only 8 am and in the darkness of the...

I am sitting on a bus, the computer on the tray table which is making a permanent indentation on my stomach, blogging on a bus is as difficult as translating the words “personal hygiene”…into French. It’s 9 am and for the last hour and a half we have been on and off the bus at all ...

I had forgotten about Hamlet and if my old English literature teacher Mrs. Martin knew that I had she would be mad…………….and when Mrs. Martin got mad her face would go red and the mole on one of her seven chins from which sprung 3 long hairs would grow before our eyes. Mrs...

As you may remember from a previous blog, just before I joined the Carnival Freedom for the Bloggers cruise I had lost two mobile telephones in just a few weeks, the last one I am positive I left on the desk while checking into the hotel. I had never gotten around to replacing the phone [...]

I am one of those people who have no idea about electricity and how things work………..if you want a battle of wits on this subject you should note that I am unarmed. What I do know is that when you don’t have any it’s a real bugger. That’s what happened last night……...