Author Archives: Bill

I’m sat at the desk thinking about what to write about for today’s blog. I probably should write about the civil war again, but I have written about that several times recently and I don’t want the blog to become single topic. To be honest, I don’t think there’s much danger of that. Here’s anotherContinue reading “1114 – what to write about?”

This picture does not feature Portchester Castle. Unfortunately, I don’t have one that does. This isn’t a piece about the castle, it about books that talk of the English Civil War. I have a bit of a dilemma, I bought a book a while back by Diane Purkiss it draws upon the personal experiences ofContinue reading “1113 – Books”

I haven’t done a post for a few days. I just haven’t felt like it. Tonight’s post is going not much better I’m afraid sorry about that. I’ll slowly try and get back to normal. Just bear with me.

You know when you watch a Science Fiction movie and that astronauts are all in their seats waiting blast off, and just before they go their chairs tilt over slowly, so that they are on their backs with their legs up ready to go? Well, today I got to experience something very similar to whatContinue reading “1111 – When The Bough breaks…”

With a picture from Rome. Not comparing towns, commenting on the pronunciation of Civitaveccia which is done with a hard capital C as in Church whereas I had been saying it with a soft C as in Citizen. I’ll have to break my habit as the former is correct. I managed to get out forContinue reading “1110 – Civitaveccia & Gosport”

Yes, it’s still a picture from the cruise, but no, this isn’t about the cruise. Instead it’s about the book I am reading. Have you ever bought a book, not knowing what to expect, but as you get into it, it become so exciting that you become almost breathless with what is happening and theContinue reading “1109 – A slight Diversion”

Our third port of call was Livorno. Normally Livorno is the gate way to Florence & Pizza, we’ve been there before, so we decided on a different adventure. We wanted to experience Tuscany, which saw us on a coach heading for Sienna. Sienna on a map looks pretty much as being in the middle ofContinue reading “1108 – Tuscany”

Our visit to Monaco meant Azura anchoring at Ville Franche and the passengers being tendered in to the port. The tender could be a locally hired craft or one of cruise ships craft. In either case each craft can carry 100 – 150 people. To smoothly get anything upto 3000 pax’s off and back onContinue reading “1107 – Tendering Ville Franche”

The Capital of Corsica is Ajaccio. Of what we saw it’s was neat and well kept. We hopped on the road train which gave us a tour with a couple of photo stops on the way round. The first stop was at a big monument to Napoleon. I know who Napoleon was of course, butContinue reading “1106 – What surprised me about Corsica”

The train journey from Havant was smooth, except the train was loaded with cyclists and their bikes heading towards the Isle of Wight we think. I didn’t find out if there was an event on. There was no room for the luggage so we were partially blocking the aisle. We managed. We only had aContinue reading “1105 – We return home – Part two”