Category: News

You close your eyes for a moment and another week streaks by! What are the chances of that?

Continue reading “15 June 2025”

Whew! A bit of time to pause for breath and take stock. Not for long, though.

The two gardening expositions we had last weekend went exceedingly well. The first was the village “Summer Garden Competition” on Saturday and then we had the Open Gardens on Sunday to raise some money for a couple of local charities.

Continue reading “8 June 2025”

Sorry (again and again and again and . . .). If anything, this week has been busier than either of the previous two. It seems like we’ve been busier than a one-armed wallpaper hanger, as my brother Steph said once upon a time. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed our all-too-brief visit with our good friend Miles and his wife, Kathryn, we’ve been frantically preparing for the village garden competition (yesterday) and for the Open Gardens (later today). Hopefully, it will stay (mostly) dry and perhaps we could enjoy a little bit less wind than we’ve had the last few days? Oh, and we also celebrated Penny’s and Jessie’s birthdays on Wednesday and we’ve welcomed Penny’s sister Judi who arrived from Toronto on Friday. Whew!

Continue reading “1 June 2025”

Sorry (again). Those of you who care will undoubtedly feel short-changed (again). We’ve been very busy following our return from Cumbria – we have Open Gardens in a week’s time but, more importantly, we had to prepare for our upcoming visit from our very good friend Miles and his wife who arrived yesterday. So, this edition will be mercifully short and hopefully somewhat succinct.

Continue reading “25 May 2025”

Sorry. I forgot to say that we will be away this weekend – we’re visiting our lovely former neighbours who are now living in the Lake District. So, no News today! I am putting this together on Wednesday, before we leave. Fortunately, we have much of our copy ready for (repeat) publication – we’ll steal the last bit of our Polarsteps SE Asia travel log to fill the gaps.

Continue reading “18 May 2025”

We had a lazy start to the day. Jessie’s scrambled eggs are getting better and better so a leisurely breakfast was followed by an equally leisurely outing to the Nha Trang Oceanography Museum and Aquarium.

Continue reading “11 May 2025”

The next stage of our adventure is another travel day, this time from Đà Lạt to Nha Trang back on the coast, a three-hour ride in a 12-seater minibus – plenty of room to stretch out and snore.

Continue reading “4 May 2025”

We left the Möwenpick Resort and made our way to the next stop on our agenda, Đà Lạt, up in the mountains. I gather it was where the French colonialists escaped the summer heat in Saigon.

Continue reading “27 April 2025”

We left Ho Chi Minh City about 9.30 and took a taxi to Phan Thiet, about three hours up the coast. This was perhaps the most exciting part of the adventure as we were going to meet up with Adam, Ava and the girls. The exciting part was that the girls did not know we were coming.

Continue reading “20 April 2025”

We were up bright and early for our journey by taxi from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City, a journey of just over six hours including the obligatory border crossing. The driver who took us from Phnom Penh to the border at Moc Bai was excellent – very calm and cautious and steady.

Continue reading “13 April 2025”