Theme 09 of 13
Big trips, small detours, and the road in between.
It is hard to pick a single favourite.... but for relaxing in summer sunshine up there on my list would be sitting in the shade of our grape…
DadI have no recollection of being lost although my mother did recount about the one time that I did get lost. The incident must have made a big…
MumI remember two occasions....once when I was lost and another when I felt lost. I felt lost when my Mum and Dad went to a Home Show at…
Dad photosIt seems a funny question to ask because it has various meanings. The answers could be safely, in comfort, on time, cheaply or many other ways of describing…
MumI’ve thought about this quite lot as I can’t quite decide in my own mind whether an adventure is ‘planned’ or whether it just happens…. so I looked…
DadAs usual there is no one answer to this. If I think exotic then some of the islands in Thailand that we have visited by long tailed boat,…
MumI don’t know how much any of you will remember of this, but we were all there on a camping trip to Alice Lake, north of Squamish. Jennie…
DadIt happened in the early 1960s, probably 1965. Certainly I had qualified as a Chartered Accountant and had my first good paying job at a local Department Store,…
MumThe simplest answer would, of course, be: 'Business Class'...... but for me it's not so much a style preference as what it takes to get you to the…
DadFor many years our family holidays were spent at Prestatyn in North Wales. This was covenient for two reasons. Prestatyn was, and is, a seaside town with good…
MumAs you know, we are so lucky to have been able to travel all around the w orld, but I think that one of the trips which will…
MumI imagine the actual furthest we have travelled from home would be the South Island of New Zealand when Dad & I spent a month in 2005 travelling…
MumWe have done so much travelling over the years and always look forward to something new and different. For somewhere that I/ we would travel to over and…
MumWhen we were small, living in Scotland, we travelled on holidays from Glasgow to Perthshire to stay with my Granny & Grandpa Walker, Mum's parents. That was quite…
Mum photosWe spent almost all of our vacations visiting my grandparents in Alyth and having short seaside breaks in the summer at Carnoustie. When we lived in Glasgow I…