Day Seven (17.04.24) Saranda – Mesopotam – Blue Eye – Gjirokaster This morning we continued our journey to Gjirokaster, also known as the Stone City. There had been a dramatic change in the weather overnight, the temperature had dropped considerably and it had rained. Leaving after breakfast under a cloudy and miserable-looking sky we left the… Continue Reading

Day Four (14.04.24) Tirana – Berat It was an early start on a cloudless morning after breakfast. The coach left at 8.30 a.m. and being a Sunday the streets in Tirana for once were eerily quiet and devoid of the traffic jams of the previous days. We were heading to Berat known for its white… Continue Reading

Day One  (11.04.24) Tirana  Our Wizzair flight from Luton wasn’t until the afternoon, so there wasn’t any need to thrash our way down a motorway at an ungodly hour which seems to have been the norm for the last few years. However, despite having been packed, checked, added to and checked again from the previous… Continue Reading

22/03/24 Sue and I met with Charlotte and her family at Sarah’s for a Palmer family meal. Jamie and Ruth were in Cambridge for the weekend celebrating Ruth’s birthday by watching a performance of the ‘Sleuth’ at the Cambridge Arts Theatre. Sarah and Lee had prepared a very tasty Mexican meal for us to enjoy and… Continue Reading

Fresh from the land of pasta and vino, early on Monday the 18th of March Sue and I left Harborough for a few days to the land of Laverbread and Brains Bitter. We broke our journey west to visit Old Oswestry Hillfort, built and occupied during the Iron Age it is one of the best-preserved… Continue Reading

Through family connections, rugby chum Sean Perry was given the opportunity to use an apartment in San Vito, Abruzzo, Italy for free and asked if I would like to accompany him. For the cost of return airfare at under £50 and shared car parking it was a no-brainer. So, at 3 a.m. on the 10th… Continue Reading