Monthly Archives: July 2019
FROM KINGS & ABBOTTS TO PRIINCE’S OF WALES.
Thursday 18th July. It has been a strange couple of days, wrestling with disappointments, satnavs and nettles. Missing the Evensong service at Kings College last Tuesday was a great disappointment and we rose early the next day with only a few spare hours to get into the chapel. We therefore broke our fast succinctly (at […]
THREE HAIR RAISING MOMENTS.
Today we began the Battle of Britian. Trying to get our rental car out of Europe Cars Marble Arch garage and back to the hotel, was only the arm-up. Her magesty the toffee nosed lady on our car sat-nav was quite understanding and didn’t loose her temper with us more than once. We succeded in […]
TTHE MONOPOLY BOARD COMES TO LIFE
Paddington (where we are staying), Mayfair (rich people and their fancy expensive cars) Charing Cross, Regent’s Park, Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Charing Cross, Waterloo, Marleybone, Oxford Circuit, the list goes on and on. The Monopoly Board has come to life. For the first two days our accommodation was a squeezy shoe box sized room with […]
THE LONDON EYE
Two days in London. Too much to write about. Westminster HRH, QE11. Not Alice Pete, off to the pub.
SEARCHING FOR MY ANCESTRY
Searching for my ancestry Thursday July 11th was a long, exhausting, interesting and emotional day for me. We, Ted (who was our volunteer chauffeur) and Margi, two orienteering friends and Pete and I set off early on our 500 km round trip to Rezekne, 250 kms to the east of Riga and just 60 kms […]
DOUBLE BUMBUKALNS.
Our Latvian Orienteering is over. Two days in the Bumukalns forest on the banks of the Lielupe inlet, close to the Baltic sea. The terrain was classic sand dues with establish pine forest with little other vegetation apart from a dense mat of moss, lichen and other grasses. The visibility was great but the track […]
FAFFING DAY
Sunrise in Riga this morning was at 4.43 am. Sunset is at 10.14 pm tonight. Daylight hours are long at this time of the year. Blackout curtains are a must if you want to sleep! After yesterday’s hail and torrential downpours, we woke to rain again this morning. It seems to be that it rains […]
IN RAIN HAIL & SHINE.
The sprint Orienteering is done and we have a rest day tomorrow. The day started out cool and damp and we were able to walk to the start beneath a national monument in a park on the edge of the CBD. Ilze was able to get away early and found the going damp underfoot and […]
IT WAS A LONG WAY FOR A TURKISH TAKE-AWAY
Sorry there was no blog yesterday. Our arrival from Istanbul did not go well, delayed by 90 minutes and found that our driver had given up and left and despite Ilse’s language skills we couldn’t work out if he was coming back to get us. We waited another half an hour and then gave up […]
Kedis and Kamekazes
It’s our final day sightseeing in Istanbul. Tomorrow is a travel day, and we’re off to Latvia. After visiting the Aya Sofya yesterday morning, in the afternoon we went to see the Galata Tower, on the “Asia” side of the Golden Horn of Istanbul. It’s a very tall medieval stone tower built in 1348 and […]
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