We returned from Tenerife at the beginning of March and I had the best of intentions with regard to getting our photos quickly on-line. Alas, after some initial sorting and deletion of the obvious dross, I lost interest and moved on to other, more pressing matters.
There’s nothing like an impending new trip, however, to move one to clear one’s backlog. And so it is that our photos of Tenerife are finally public. Almost nothing is captioned, I’m afraid. We just don’t have the time to do it any more. The best I can manage is to split the photos across an array of logical albums and remove the superfluous shots, but even that takes longer than you might think.
The new trip I hinted at is to the former Turkish capital of Istanbul, where we’ll be heading this coming Wednesday afternoon for nigh on a week. I’m very much looking forward to it.
No doubt I’ll emerge from that trip, too, with the intention of putting our photos on-line as soon as we get back.
Hey Ian.
You are well traveled, can I pick your brain for where we should go while in Europe?
I need to be in Oxford for work the 2nd week of June, so I’m bringing the family a couple weeks before to kick around. Besides the people we want to visit in the UK, we have roughly a week to go somewhere else, starting around May 26th.
We were thinking Scotland, or maybe Barcelona, or the South of France or Spain, or, or or… Sigh.
We mostly want to hang out somewhere, maybe rent a house, and not do too much. We’ll have Eliza, who is almost 4, and Katie will be 7 months pregnant at the time.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
If you have any thoughts you can email me at smckenzie23@gmail.com.
Cheers!
Scotland would be great, but you could get hit by rain at that time of year. If you like the idea of Scotland, consider Ireland, too, although that could also be wet. The west coast of Ireland would make for a lovely trip.
Barcelona is supposedly great, although I haven’t been there myself yet. It’s high on my list, though.
Paris would be a nice trip and you could travel by train, too.
Then again, Amsterdam is great at that time of year. You could visit us. We’d even put you up.
Rome should probably be considered, too.
It all depends on what you like. What do you want to do? With a heavily pregnant wife, you’ll probably want to take it quite easy, right?
You’ll already be in England, so you could go somewhere on the coast. A lot of the English coastline is really beautiful.
Cornwall, for example, the county where I grew up, has a lot of rugged coast on the north side. You can surf there in Newquay, which I know would appeal to you. There’s lots to do for children, too.
There’s so much choice, it’s hard to know what to advise.