Category: Music
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Stockholm, Sweden, Day 4, 040126: Taking It Slow in Sub-Zero Temperatures
A Slow, Frosty Start There was absolutely no rush to get out of bed this morning. With temperatures sitting at minus 5, we stayed tucked up a little longer, enjoying the warmth of the room at Hotel Reisen. We’d been sensible the day before and brought some treats back from afternoon tea, so breakfast was…
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Stockholm, Sweden, Day 3, 030126: Snowy Streets, ABBA Hits and Afternoon Tea at the Grand Hôtel
We had another leisurely start to the day, thanks in part to a snowstorm that woke me in the night. By morning I decided I clearly needed to catch up on sleep, so we took things slowly before heading out. A Slippery Start in Snowy Stockholm Stepping into snowy Stockholm felt magical… right up until…
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Northern Ireland, day 4, 230925: From Titanic History to Simply Red
We started our day in Belfast with breakfast at The Wolff Grill in the Titanic Hotel. The restaurant is named after Gustav Wolff, co-founder of Harland & Wolff, the legendary shipbuilders behind the RMS Titanic. It overlooks the slipways where the ship was launched in 1911, which makes sitting down for your morning coffee feel…
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Valletta and Mdina, Malta, day 3, 250625
After we’d had breakfast at the rooftop restaurant again, we went to catch a bus to Mdina as planned. We thought it best to go from the main bus terminal, which is close to the Triton Fountain, and a short walk from our hotel. After we’d sussed out how to get there – line 52,…
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Nassau, day 2, 290325
I woke early doors…not surprising really as my body clock was still in UK time. It was 5:00am, which is four hours behind UK, but couldn’t get back to sleep. In the end I made a cuppa and went back to bed. Eventually I made the decision to get up and go for breakfast. We…
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Nassau, day 1, 280325
After leaving work early on Thursday, we travelled down to London on Hull Trains, then had an hour Tube ride on the Piccadilly Line. After enjoying our evening at the Sofitel at London Heathrow Terminal 5, we had an early wake up call on Friday morning. We used express checkout to save ourselves any bother…
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Miami, FL, Day 8, 020324, and a run for home 030324
020324 I really didn’t want to get up on Saturday morning. My body was tired of huge food portions as well as American wine and cocktails. However, a check of the weather back home meant that we needed to make the most of our last hours in the US. We packed up our belongings into…
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Miami Nice, Day 7, 010324
We ate breakfast at Palm Avenue Deli in Sarasota before hitting the road back to Miami. Google said it would take just over three hours, but nearly 200 miles on the I-95 South (part of it is called Alligator Alley), and some annoying roadworks that brought the traffic to a standstill, made it more like…
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Sarasota, Fl, Day 5, 280224
We got up quite early as I had a two hour or so drive from Naples to Sarasota. After breakfast we checked out and were soon on the road. The journey was uneventful, apart from a couple of hold ups with roadworks, and we arrived in Sarasota before lunch. We parked up outside the hotel…
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Miami South Beach, Day 1, 240224
The day started off at Sofitel Heathrow with a 6:30 am wake up to allow us to be at the airport in plenty of time. The hotel is in a perfect location as it is a five minute under cover walk to terminal 5. https://all.accor.com/hotel/6214/index.en.shtml?utm_campaign=seo+maps&utm_medium=seo+maps&utm_source=google+Maps Heathrow was busy but we were fast-tracked through security once…
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