I started the day with a full English Brekky and then went on a walk through the local village - Bletchingly. It's beautiful place - took a walk past the old Post Office and along the church lane to St Mary the Virgin Church. This church is over 900 years old. It is quite beautiful inside and out and as most churches here have a veritable treasure trove of history in the graveyard that surrounds. It's so stunning to see so many graves dating back to before ...

The Whyte Harte Hotel is very old (but beautifully restored) and is situated the lovely village of Bletchingly. My friend Barb picked me up from the pub where I'm staying and we caught a train from Redhill station into Victoria London station. When we arrived at Victoria we noticed that they charge you 30p to go to the loo there - bit cheeky. I really felt like stopping and pinching myself - I was really in London with its black Cabs and red Buses. It all s...

My day started at 6am. Breakfast was a little different at the hotel restaurant but I managed some sausage, egg and toast. (They didn't even have decent coffee - had to wait for the airport. Took a very direct and speedy route to the airport with a friendly chatty taxi-driver. Dubai airport has 5 terminals - the one I was in didn't have free internet so I wasn't able to catch up with emails and facebook. But I got an extremely good cappuccino at a Scandin...

Got up at 6 to do some face-booking, have a shower and get some breakfast. The brekky was good - standard western fare that you'd expect from an international hotel. Caught the Skytrain back to Terminal 1 and checked in, in plenty of time. They even had free internet in the airline lounge so I was able to do a couple of things before embarking. Had a good flight - although the man in front and man beside me continually wanted to invade my seat space - one wi...

I was blessed to have my friend Margie drop me off at the airport. The flight was meant to leave at 2:45am (stupid o'clock) but there was a delay and so my flight didn't leave until 3:30am. This flight was the longest air-trip I've ever made (about 7hrs). Previously the furthest I'd gone was Fiji. I'm a reluctant flyer at the best of times, but after a small amount of self-medication I found the flight pretty good. Spent some time dozing, watching TV and a ...