This year our Slow Travels have taken us to Rome. What a wonderful historic city. Almost every step you take when you are in the centre of the city, is taken on ground that has been walked on for more than 2000 years. This year our apartment is a little further out than in previous… Continue reading Slow Travels 2018 – Rome – Part 1
Book Review – The Magic of Thinking Big – David Schwartz
As part of my trip to Rome, I decided to take some ‘Self Help’ books with me. Why bother, I hear you say? As many of my readers know, I am happily retired from the workplace, so what do I need with Self Improvement, Goal Setting or anything else? However, just because I have retired… Continue reading Book Review – The Magic of Thinking Big – David Schwartz
Slow Travel 2018 – Rome
Well, it is almost time for our Slow Travel trip for 2018. This year it is Rome in Italy for 6 weeks. Last years trip to Madrid in Spain, was an outstanding success, our best trip so far. I have waxed lyrical many times on the benefits of Slow Travel. My husband and I are so fortunate,… Continue reading Slow Travel 2018 – Rome
Retirement Travels 2018 – Amsterdam
Amsterdam is such a lovely place. I know it well from spending the best part of 2 years working there. However I didn’t know it as a tourist. So this was my first ever trip as a tourist. We were spoilt, the weather was glorious, in fact, slightly too warm, but I was not going… Continue reading Retirement Travels 2018 – Amsterdam
2018 – Half Year Review
2018 is halfway through. Time to do a half year review. When I started this blog I thought I would focus on this quarterly. By default I do a quarter review on 5th April, because it is that tax year end in the UK, although I don’t always a September one – last year –… Continue reading 2018 – Half Year Review
Summer in Edinburgh
Yeah – summer has arrived in Edinburgh. Even more amazing, it looks like it will be here for another week or two. A rarity… Scotland has had record breaking temperatures over the last few weeks, (although not so much in Edinburgh sadly, but we did have some 25c+ temperatures, which was pretty good. Edinburgh gets… Continue reading Summer in Edinburgh