Cash's Holiday

Monday 19th Hi, Well this is it……the last post! Currently we are based in Kilkenny (Dublin’s about 2 hours drive north). We leave here mid-day tomorrow to comfortably make the airport drop off for the car. Our Etihad flight doesn’t leave till 9.00pm (Tuesday) from Dublin…..stops over at Abu Dhabi then on to Sydney……another wait […]

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Hello, Finally, internet connection, …… This blog follows a bit like a diary as have been formatting this in word as the days have passed. Wed 7th. Our final stage has begun. …… Flew from Exetor (in Devon) to Dublin…..didn’t take long, bit like Auckland to Wellington….seems your no sooner in the air then start […]

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Hi, What a rush my previous blog ended up……this is going to be no different. Returned to Horrabridge after a few days exploring Cornwall…..fly to Dublin tomorrow. Our road trips have felt reasonably easy throughout England, distance between places seem to be over before you know it. ……..Put that down to such pretty countryside to […]

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Hello again, Don’t know where the last five days have gone, since arriving in England, time has really flown. Weather has remained perfect (can’t count a few showers). Phil and Olivia made us so welcome, we were shown about Lancashire over our first few days…..was interesting seeing canal boats up close in a marina. They […]

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Hi, Today is Saturday 26th, we drove direct from London to Cental Lancashire (Northwest England) on Thursday….. All Whites were due to play Paraguay. Scanned the radio stations for the commentary but had to be satisfied listening to the Italian – Slovakia game with snippets of NZ’s fate. Countryside flashing past from the motorways. Roads […]

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Hello hello,….. Our 75min ferry trip from Calais to Dover was a pleasant experiance…..English speaking. Dropped car off, sad in some ways, after two months….Euro lease system worked out really well….thanks for putting us on to that Chris. Covered 9,190 km. Currently in London….weather is absolutely wonderful….staying with Jo Morrison, so good to catch up. […]

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Bonjour, For some reason I’m having trouble with loading photo’s and its becoming irritating to say the least….that will teach me for getting confident with this whole program. We had a good run again yesterday, no great fan fare leaving Italy into France….sort of expect something apart from driving through toll gates. Skirted the coast […]

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Thursday 17th Hi, Time allows to do this back to back post…..what a treat. You wouldn’t believe how our day started…..Dark sky and thunder rolling around….rain…. not heavy, just annoying. As mentioned in last blog, the plans today were to see the strip of coastline renowned for its terraced hillsides and 5 picturesque villages, called […]

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Wed. 16th …..Hello `blog’….and all who are still hanging on in there. It’s been hit and miss (mostly miss) with internet access since leaving Soriano (so spoilt there). Actually I began this blog on leaving NZ with a little trepidation. 1. Regarding control of the program itself and 2. Making it interesting without boring you […]

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Hello, ……Arrived Sicily Tuesday 8th. First impressions don’t rate too highly. Our villa is really comfortable and spacious, surrounded by a secure high fence & plastered block walls. A locked iron gate. …….Beautiful front yard, very private, planted up with ornamentals at the road end and fruit trees down the side. The surprise is a […]

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