Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
After a couple of nights of luxury on the resort island of Bandos, our Maldives holiday continued with a speedboat ride back to Malé. Today it was hot, sticky and sunny as we arrived on the dockside by the airport. We soon met up with Zaff, our guide for the week and met the others...
After a long flight and arrival in the Maldives during a torrential storm, we were soon on board a speedboat for a 15 minute transfer to the island resort of Bandos. There are so many island resorts to choose from that it can be over-whelming. They all offer similar things but can range in price...
It’s not every day that we have a holiday such as this, but it’s our 20th wedding anniversary this year so we thought it was time to save up and treat ourselves to the holiday of a lifetime in the Maldives. Most people that go to the Maldives, at least from the UK, tend to...
It’s been kind of chilly here lately, but that’s nothing in comparison to where Morgan is. The forecast for tomorrow is -36ºC with a maximum during the day of -31ºC. Yep, I’d consider that as cold! Morgan seems quite excited by the prospect really! He still hasn’t got a job, but he has been purchasing...
Morgan was going to write some blog posts from Canada himself. I started them off for him and asked him to fill in some blanks but apparently, he’s not very good at writing about what he’s been doing. So, you’ll have to put up with updates from me rather than from Morgan himself. Things seem...
Thanks to the wonders of modern technology we’ve been able to keep in touch with Morgan quite easily. He made it to Calgary safely and had a couple of days there trying to sort out some paperwork and a bank account etc. He then travelled to Banff and has been staying in a hostel there...
Phew, that was a busy week. Morgan has decided to defer his places at university for a while and head off to Canada on a ‘working holiday’ instead. After a few weeks of sorting out flights, insurance, working visas etc. etc. it was almost time for him to go. So, last weekend we all went...
Our journey across Norway was coming towards its end. So far we had travelled to Bergen where we spent a day exploring the city. We’d then taken the Bergen to Oslo train as far as Voss where we spent the day running in the hills, walking in gorges and chilling by the lakeside. We’d then...
After a good night’s sleep in our apartment, we were fully recovered from our kayaking expedition. Today we would retrace our paddle strokes aboard a boat and then continue along the Aurlandsfjord to Flåm. From here we’d head back into the mountains to rejoin the Bergen to Oslo train heading for our evening destination of...
Our train trip across Norway took a bit of a detour here. Rather than continuing on the train from Voss to Myrdal we were missing a bit out and heading north a little to the village of Gudvangen at the end of the Nærøyfjord. Here we would meet up with a kayaking group tour that...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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