Author Archives: Stefan Lomas

We traveled to Heathrow for a late afternoon flight with the help of our neighbor, Gerry, who kindly offered to drive us since he was heading in to West London to visit family. Our flight from T4 departed an hour and a half later than scheduled, resulting in us arriving at our destination around 10Continue reading “We’re in Carthage, Tunisia”

It’s been a while since I’ve caught up on the blog, but it’s good to get back on it. It’s been quite a rollercoaster of weather here in the UK lately – one moment we’re basking in sunshine and the next we’re bracing ourselves for some biblical event. But that hasn’t stopped us from enjoyingContinue reading “Cambridge, the British weather & the Ouse burst its banks”

We left Cobham at just after midday on Friday and headed north, to spend a long weekend with Seb and Ally. It’s just over 220 miles door to door. The first 2 hours of the which were spent sitting on the dreaded M25 ( London’s orbital road network, AKA “Europe’s largest car-park”) , where IContinue reading “A long weekend in North Yorkshire”

The main reason for heading back to the UK was for Rachel’s fathers funeral, which took place in Whitstable in Kent. Fred, Rachel’s dad had chosen the church whilst spending a long summer there with Rachel’s sister Ruth. We made the journey from Hartford, which took us across & through the Dartford Crossing, (the busiestContinue reading “A funeral and catching up with Rhubarb in Cobham”

We landed back in the UK nearly three weeks ago, on a late Saturday afternoon and as they say, to be forewarned is to be forearmed. So expecting freezing temperatures we’d packed the warmest clothes we had in our carry-on’s and climbed into them as we left the aircraft and boy we needed them, itContinue reading “Heading back to the UK for a few weeks”

We had a very welcome visitor this last week….Christien surprised us and popped out for a long weekend, to cheer his mum up. We picked him up from the airport and decided to go for dinner in Aricife, which is both where the airport lies and the capital. We found a nice little Tapas barContinue reading “The visitor, Papagayo & good food!”

The weathers been a bit hit and miss this last week, but we’ve made the most of it. Swimming at our sheltered spot in Costa Teguise. Walking the interesting Famara beach, with its dark mountain backdrop. Continuing on the Manrique theme, we took a trip to see his final (he died in 1992) project; “ElContinue reading “The cactus garden and wine region”

Driving around Lanzarote it’s easy to imagine how the island nearly fell into the hands of greedy property developers, hell bent on throwing up as many concrete apartment buildings as they could, all of which would have obscured the landscape and dreamy panoramas out across the Atlantic. There are still some sizeable apartment buildings atContinue reading “The Timanfaya national park and Cesar Manrique”

I’ve not been to the moon before, but the landscape here in Lanzarote is how I’d imagine it to look like. We landed in the capital “Arrecife “at about 7pm, but by the time we’d got on the road it was closer to 8pm. I haven’t driven for a while and the unfamiliar roads withContinue reading “A moon landing…Lanzarote”

We got out of the taxi and said our goodbyes to Miloud as a weathered chap put our cases into the small cart and we made our way through the winding medina, to the “Medina Sun“ a small Riad, where thankfully I’d had the forethought to order food the day before. It takes a goodContinue reading “Christmas in Marrakesh”