I Need A Vacation; Why Not Take A Trip Around The World
Janes holiday travels
Our first day in Jordan! The landscape is very much how I imagined it to be; dry, arid, hilly and sandy. We headed out from Amman with our fellow travellers to Ajloun which is a town in the fertile highlands of north Jordan. It’s overlooked by the ruined Ajloun Castle, originally built in 1184 to…
Our trip finally ended in Nice at Joe and Margarets apartment which overlooks Nice harbour. Absolutely beautiful and so interesting watching all the activity happening throughout various times of the day. Nice has a long history of tourism, both in summer and winter, and it is one of the city’s principal economic activities. Apart from…
So what do you do after you’ve just finished an 8 day cycling holiday? Yes you guessed it, you go on another bike ride. So off we set from La Croix Valmer heading to Saint Maxime, approximately 15 kilometres away. The resort of Sainte-Maxime is on the Mediterranean, on the north coast of the Gulf…
La Croix-Valmer is a small town on the Cote d’Azur south-west of Saint Tropz, in an attractive location with beaches backed by the pine covered Maures Massif, a substantial part of which is now a protected reserve. The town itself has some interesting ‘belle-epoque’ (early 20th century) villas to see, of which the imposing Maison…
The last day of our bike tour and we return to Avignon. We landed in the middle of a protest!! Something to do with safety on bikes which necessitated the cyclists to be wearing very little. Just to clarify that the 3 of us were not involved!!! I had fallen off my bike earlier so…
This was such a great experience. Joe and I managed to join a private tour of the famous Chateau La Nerthe, which was fascinating. It is one of the oldest wine estate of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and has been a wine producer since the 12th century. It is set in a beautiful park and has 16th century…
The Rhone valley is the second vastest wine-making region in the world, a veritable carpet of wines draping a countryside dotted with picturesque villages. So departing from Avignon on our wine cycling trip our destination for the first day was Venasque. The scenery is beautiful through typical french villages of houses and shops that are…
Back in a country I have spent a lot of time in and a country that I love. After meeting Joe and Margaret Sweeney in Bordeaux, and after an evening of seeing a sea of green after Ireland decimated Bulgaria in the 2023 Rugby World Cup preliminary matches, we departed Bordeaux to head to Narbonne,…
Onwards and upwards to meet good friends Joe and Margaret Sweeney in Bordeaux, but as I have 8 hours to kill at Malaga airport, I decided to take the train to Malaga and do some sightseeing!! Malaga, the capital of the Province of Malaga, is a municipality of Spain in Andalusia. It is the 2nd…
After a lovely 2 days celebrating Iseult’s marriage to Darren and spending time with the Irish family, it was time to do a little bit of sightseeing before departing Spain, so off to Cordoba we went!! Never do a bus tour to Cordoba. Go by car! We left at 6am only to arrive there at…