Middle-aged flash packers

That didn’t take long. This was probably the laziest holiday we’ve had since our early twenties. I blame it on the combination of masks and heat. Amongst the hottest holiday weather we’ve ever had ( Pulgia in Italy takes the prize for that – 45 degrees), just sitting in the sun for more than 10…

Today our incredibly busy schedule of doing nothing was broken up by meeting up for an afternoon drink with some long standing Dalaman friends. It’s these events that make it seem quite unreal that we have actually sold our Turkey house. The thought of never coming back here seems unthinkable, like never going back to…

What am I going to ramble on about today, you ask. Huge bottles of champagne maybe? Guns? No, it’s my favourite holiday ice-cream. Steve and I may disagree on a range of things, but the love of a daily magnum while away in a hot country is the glue that binds us together. I know,…

It was Steve’s idea but I was the executor.He had suggested pancakes for breakfast as a way of using up some soya milk and eggs before we flew to Turkey for a week. The pancakes used precisely 130 millilitres of soya milk and 1 egg, so were not a great example of saving waste, but…

Flashback to New Year’s Eve 2019. “This is going to be a great year” I thought. Milestone birthdays, Charlie and Amy’s wedding celebration, a family once-in-a-lifetime trip to Nepal with plenty of travel in between. Yup, 2020 was going down as a good ‘un. Psychic abilities nil points. Still, what a spring and summer. Lockdown…