HELEN anxiously closed her curtains. The wind was tearing around the house, slamming rain against the windows and harassing the trees. The rain hadn’t stopped since lunchtime. She’d spent this first d

“Early last year I was reading about long-stay vacations in Spain over Christmas and New Year. “Why not?” I thought. My wife and I had spent Christmas the previous year at home in Cornwall and we both

We have just had a relaxing autumn break in Wiltshire and Somerset. Travelling from home in the Midlands on a Sunday we had a steady journey to Devizes Camping and Caravanning Club site. We had pre-bo

C OPENHAGEN AIRPORT. Travelling without luggage, I breeze ...

We’d passed through the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, to give it its full title, many times en route to other destinations and always said that we should have another break in this beautiful country (we’

My last email ended with this: We are both very much looking forward to our Tasman Sea crossing to Nelson, New Zealand. The sea with its infinite cleansing powers should wash away all that earth life