Twenty eight people assembled around the Tour Director at Catania airport: thirteen married couples, me and a solo gentleman. I’ll call him Gentleman X. And what with seating arrangements at meal times, and finding ourselves paired during free time on daytrips, we were thrown together quite a bit over the next week. But – a[…]
Italy as a holiday destination has it all as far as I’m concerned: good weather, great views, great artwork, ancient ruins – and I’m not talking about the other people on the tour! And not forgetting GOOD FOOD. This summer I visited Sicily, the much fought over Mediterranean volcanic rock, close to the toe of[…]
We all feel stuck in a rut sometimes. It just takes a moment, a sideways glance at our life, to notice the same old day after day or regular weekly routine – and it feels dull all of a sudden. What we need is a change! Perhaps we suddenly can’t remember the last time we[…]
Everyone wants to feel good, preferably all of the time. But for many people that feeling can be elusive. Perhaps they are so busy chasing after the feeling that they don’t notice that it has been there all the time. But, you have to choose to notice it, to look for it in the everyday.[…]
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel that Father’s Day is getting a bit OTT? Once it was more low key than Mother’s Day, but it has now become yet another overblown and over-commercialised calendar event. It seems as though those promoting Dad-Day-related wares are not just chasing after Mother’s Day to try[…]
Since writing my blog on the importance of sleep, I have continued to be hounded by information on the subject: articles and comments have appeared on my social media feed and videos have popped up on my You Tube channel. I could not ignore this apparent synchronicity: I was meant to do something. When I[…]
How did you sleep last night? Poorly? Badly? Not at all? It seems that most of us suffer from disrupted sleep at best and chronic insomnia at worst. Developed countries are in the grip of a 21st century sleep-loss epidemic, whereby only about a third of inhabitants manage the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended 8[…]
Spring is definitely in the air and it seems impossible to avoid the noise about spring cleaning: from Mrs Hinch’s bestselling book of cleaning tips to a tongue-in-cheek article about the house-proud in this Month’s Cosmopolitan Magazine. But, never fear – I’m about to take the pressure off. Spring cleaning is so passé – it’s[…]
Before I went to stay in Bude, at the top of Cornwall’s north coast, I looked up things to do in the area. Top of the Trip Adviser list of 10 Things to Do In Bude was the Bude Tunnel, described as: “One of Cornwall’s finest attractions – a FREE walk-through, sheltered, perspex wind tunnel[…]
Aren’t all spaces solo-friendly? The answer’s “Yes”, for people who stride boldly anywhere and everywhere on their own: their perception is that a space cannot be solo-unfriendly. But not everyone feels the same way. And while I was thinking about this question, I had the good fortune to walk into the epitome of a solo-friendly[…]