Saturday, December 31, 2005

New Years Eve 2005 in Wenvoe.

 We spent New Year's Eve in the social hall of Wenvoe where friends and neighbours gathered to see in the New Year.


Sunday, December 25, 2005

Christmas time in Wenvoe 2005


Christmas rolled around once again and we took a trip into Cardiff to see the festive village in the City center.

The Flav's were invited around for Christmas dinner.


and then Robin and Johan arrived....





Thursday, December 15, 2005

A Long Weekend in Dublin

 From Cardiff airport we took the 35 minute flight to Dublin. Our base for our visit was the Camden court hotel.


We walked into the City Center which was decorated for Christmas, in the evening we popped into O'Donagues to listen to a traditional Irish band.

Rob nipped into a local barber's for a Close Shave.


Even though it was very cold, we jumped on an open tour bus for a Trip around the City. Took a walk around Dublin castle and Phoenix park.

We did a tour of the World Famous Guinness brewery.


We did a tour of the Famous Whiskey Distillery in Bow Street. In the evening we walked over to Whelan's bar to listen to a very talented duet, followed by a curry at the Surma restaurant.



On our final day we did a bit of Christmas shopping before popping into the Bleeding horse pub for a sandwich and a couple of drinks before flying home.

Sunday, September 25, 2005

The Island of Santorini

 We drove over to Bristol to catch a flight to the Greek island of Santorini.

Shortly after take off we were told that the aircraft had a fuel leak and we would have to land at Charles de Gaul airport  in Paris. We were in Paris for a good nine hours, so the bar takings did well.


We finally arrived in Santorini at 5.30 am and made our way to our base in Kamari,

We walked down to the local dive center and booked a couple of dives.

We took a the local bus for a trip to Fira, we wandered along the narrow streets of white washed cottages and walked up the hill to see truly stunning views of the sea, village and the old volcanic crater.


We stopped off at a delightful taverna with more stunning view of the sea and out lying volcanic crater.




We took a pleasure boat out to the Volcanic crater of  Nea Kameni


After the visit We sailed on until we stopped at a small fishing village of Thirassia for lunch.


We sailed onto Oia and faced a long trek up to the town trying to avoid the donkeys on the way.

Rob jumped on a dive boat and went out to the volcanic crater and then another dive off Akrotiri beach.


It was pure coincidence that Mandy's sons, Rob and Johan, were on holiday in Santorini at the same time, we met up for a day on the beach followed by  a few drinks.



Memories of Santorini