The Platinum Line

Category: Travel

  • Visiting Bletchley Park

    Visiting Bletchley Park

    A local college offers free study weekends for the “young at heart” over fifties.  I am not sure we qualify as young at heart but I liked the sound of one of the activities on offer a functional Mathematics study day and a visit to Bletchley Park home of the wartime code breakers. I very…

  • Cruising the Dutch Waterways and a visit to the Keukenhof bulb gardens.

    Cruising the Dutch Waterways and a visit to the Keukenhof bulb gardens.

    Three years ago we took a trip on the Dutch waterways from Arnham to Amsterdam aboard an old canal barge.

  • Visiting the Royal Mint at Llantrisant

    Visiting the Royal Mint at Llantrisant

    Croeso I Cymru  Welcome to Wales This week Bill and I went on a coach trip to the royal mint at Llantrisant which is near Cardiff in Wales.  I have been a coin collector for a number of years and was keen to learn a little more about how they were made.  The visitor experience…

  • Celebrating new year in Linz, Austria

    Celebrating new year in Linz, Austria

    Two years ago, we celebrated New Year in Linz, Austria. Our daughter who teaches English as a foreign language had secured a  three month volunteer placement with the Austrian bilingual classroom project (ABC)  and we offered to help with her luggage.  The bilingual classroom project was set up so that village schools could have visits…

  • A day out in Wells

    A day out in Wells

    Wells is England’s smallest city yet there is a great deal to see from the huge gothic cathedral to the bishop’s palace

  • Visiting the Alhambra

    Visiting the Alhambra

    The Alhambra is one of the most visited monuments in Spain.  It is probably the main reason  why most people visit Granada and it has certainly been on my bucket list for quite while. It is also a UNESCO world heritage site. So when my son said he would like to visit it I was…

  • Half term in Malaga

    Half term in Malaga

    One thing I was looking forward to when my children grew up was not having to go away during the school holidays.  However two of them decided to become teachers.  When my son asked if we fancied going to Spain for half term I leapt at the chance.   I am pleased to say I…