The Armchair Traveller

This final post about Austin Texas has been a mammoth effort to complete; it has been a work in progress for over a month now because I just can’t seem to get it right. You may wonder what I mean by that but all I can say is that this trip was such an amazing [...]

On our third day in Austin we decided to go for a one and a half hour drive south to San Antonio, Texas (the second largest city in Texas). Mum and Lynsey had wanted to do this trip on their last visit to Austin but had run out of time and I had been recommended [...]

For at least two months before arriving in Austin, Texas the friends we would be staying with had warned us that the weather was currently “hot as hell” and that we should bring only our coolest clothes, so stepping out of Austin Bergstrom Airport I couldn’t really exclaim surprise about the heat, except for the [...]

After only a few hours sleep it was suddenly Wednesday morning and I was in Denver! Mum and Lynsey were up and about in the hotel room preparing for the first day of the conference they were here to attend and I took the opportunity to be as lazy as possible because I was here [...]

It was going to be a very long day – 7 hours in a plane from London to Minneapolis, 4 hours waiting in Minneapolis, then another 2 hours on a plane from Minneapolis to Denver. However, Mum and Lynsey waiting at Denver airport for me makes all this travel worth it! My day of traveling [...]

In this changeable weather we seem to be experiencing at the moment I thought I would profile yet another island paradise – I know that they all seem to be the same, however, when you don’t actually live on an island paradise how could you possibly get sick of reading about them, and drooling over [...]