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Wednesday Early start as I’m off to Pickleball. Alsas get to the sports centre, 6 pickleball courts but no one there. Abandon hope of playing pickleball today. After lunch, we set off to Sand Key Park and the beach. Wendy … Continue reading →

Saturday Leisurely drive up to Clearwater. Encounter our first traffic jam on the interstate. Mainly caused by scrots wanting to cut in at the last moment. Seems to be a world wife problem. Easily find our new home exchange and … Continue reading →

Tuesday Up at 05:00 for a conference call. Back to doing some ARC management consultancy. Then it’s an early start over to Rolf’s to got kayaking. We’re off to Pine island where we meet up with a group of about … Continue reading →

Friday Another lazy morning, coffee and newspapers around the pool. How civilised is that. I’m almost missing the cut and thrust of the daily BREXIT battles between the remoaners and brexiteers, bumping up against one another like angry molecules in … Continue reading →

Monday Up at the crack our sparrows to beat the Manchester traffic; taxi to airport; amazing we manage to get into the escape lounge – priority pass is a rip off. Excellent virgin flight to Orlando. Plenty off free booze; … Continue reading →

Sunday Breakfast on 40th floor. Great views but an expensive breakfast. Set off to the Senso-ji temple. An interesting combination of the cultural, holy and spiritual complete with about 100+ stalls selling all sorts of tat that you’ve neither need … Continue reading →

Wednesday There’s a queue for one of the two breakfast buffets in the hotel – no way. So go down to the gold room, it was worse than St Thomas primary school canteen, complete with greasy table clothes and non … Continue reading →

Saturday Goodbye Celebrity; goodbye food; goodbye free drinks. Catch the shuttle bus to Yokohama station into Tokyo and then onto some unpronounceable station near the luxurious 5 star New Otani Hotel. Arrive wet and dishevelled only to be wiped down … Continue reading →

Blog 1911 to 2211 Tuesday Hakodate Well today we’re in Hakodate on yet another tour. First we go to a fish market to ogle the hairy crabs and some not so hairy but live giant ones. Then it’s the red … Continue reading →

Friday Kagoshima Well today’s sharabang takes us to an Arimura observation platform of an active volcano on Sakurajima. I thought we were going to an observatory at the rim. Turns out we go to an observation platform in the lava … Continue reading →