The husband and I have just returned from what I would classify as the most physically challenging experience of my life (I won’t speak for him!). We conquered Mount Kilimanjaro, all 5,895 metres of it. My first response when people ask how it was, is, “it was tough.” It was tough. For those of us […]
Welcome 2016
The holiday countdown is on again; three and a half weeks in, four and a half weeks to go. It’s funny, I generally refer to our time off the island as “breaks” rather than “holidays” – mostly because that’s the way the majority of people here refer to them (that is, those that don’t refer to them […]
Chile
After 3 fantastic weeks on another continent we are back on the compound – back on Paradise Island. The three weeks has gone fast, as expected – and although not terribly relaxing (the husband and I have tended to lean away from lie-on-the-beach-holidays of late) and while my Spanish didn’t quite improve so much as […]