January 2008
Winter is well and truly here and we have all survived Christmas and New Year and are now into the long couple of months before Spring arrives. For us here Christmas was very quiet. Ben came up for almost two weeks over the holiday but Imogen Ken and the children went to celebrate Christmas in Devon with his family. Consequently it was peaceful here with just the three of us but weenjoyed ourselves. New Yearwas much busier - Tina and Natasha , Anne and Jo came up and a friend of Bens - Becky also came tom join us. We had great fun and we all had a good time.
Our family departed and Phil and I had time to pack our cases before departing for a memorable holiday in Mauritius. A beautiful island with temperatures at about 30deg. Sunshine most of the day but even when it doesn't shine itis still very warm and to my cost you can still get burnt. My legs were really painful after one such day! We hired a car and 'did' the island. Saw all the sites much of the country. The last four days were spent enjoying the luxury of our second hotel, relaxing and enjoying the warmth.
We had a disastrous journey on the way leaving Glasgow late in gales, me hurting my foot running across Dubai airport to catch our connecting plane and culminating in me being taken off the flight in a wheelchair! To make matters worse we arrived but our luggage did not and we were 36 hours in our travelling clothes. Then when we arrived at the hotel the room they gave us was awful. A call to the Kuoni Rep got us efficiently moved to a room 200% better and she arranged that we should change hotels mid way through our holiday. We could not thank her enough.
Having got over all that we ended up having a good time. The journey home was less eventful although it is a long way!
So here we are at the end of January looking forward to what promises to be a busy month ahead which includes a very rushed visit to Hertford for a friends 60th, a visit her by an old friend, having the grand children to stay whilst Imogen and Ken make the most of their last few weeks of freedom before the hotel opens for the summer and I have a few meetings arranged.
Our family departed and Phil and I had time to pack our cases before departing for a memorable holiday in Mauritius. A beautiful island with temperatures at about 30deg. Sunshine most of the day but even when it doesn't shine itis still very warm and to my cost you can still get burnt. My legs were really painful after one such day! We hired a car and 'did' the island. Saw all the sites much of the country. The last four days were spent enjoying the luxury of our second hotel, relaxing and enjoying the warmth.
We had a disastrous journey on the way leaving Glasgow late in gales, me hurting my foot running across Dubai airport to catch our connecting plane and culminating in me being taken off the flight in a wheelchair! To make matters worse we arrived but our luggage did not and we were 36 hours in our travelling clothes. Then when we arrived at the hotel the room they gave us was awful. A call to the Kuoni Rep got us efficiently moved to a room 200% better and she arranged that we should change hotels mid way through our holiday. We could not thank her enough.
Having got over all that we ended up having a good time. The journey home was less eventful although it is a long way!
So here we are at the end of January looking forward to what promises to be a busy month ahead which includes a very rushed visit to Hertford for a friends 60th, a visit her by an old friend, having the grand children to stay whilst Imogen and Ken make the most of their last few weeks of freedom before the hotel opens for the summer and I have a few meetings arranged.
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