World Of Tourism

The view from my apartment around lunch-time today. The soundtrack in the background by the way is the BBC Scotland lunch-time news on BBC1.Looking out to sea through the blizzard - it looks bleak and wildPanning across from the harbour and the cricket pitch with the A96 and Marine Road just visible in the gloomPanning back from Marine Road to the harbour and sea- definitely a day when it is

Is the world turning upside down? Just a few moments ago I took screen-shots from my embedded weather data 'gizmo' which reveal the stark truth - today at 12.58 BST the temperature was 25 degrees Celsius at Inverness airport (about 7 miles from my home in Nairn, Scotland), whereas at 13.00 CEST today the temperature was 22 degrees Celsius at Murcia-St Javier airport, roughly 70Km from my Spanish

Today, for the first time in several days, the freezing fog in Nairn lifted and we even had sunny, but still bitterly cold, spells in the afternoon; however the freezing fogs have resulted in the pretty frosting on all the trees and grass in the area as we have had no snow in the last few weeks. Well wrapped-up, I took a stroll up into the town today, then down onto the shore path, to get some

Most of my visits to the Costa Cálida in the past have been in the winter with shorter visits in the Spring and the Autumn; I haven't been here before in mid-summer (I spent many years living in the Middle and Far East so know all about summer heat, thank you very much), but because I was going to be in the Netherlands in early August for family reasons, which I mentioned here a few days ago, I

I leave Nairn for about a month beginning Wednesday, intially travelling to the Netherlands for some family celebrations (birthdays and an anniversary), then at the beginning of next week on to Spain, where I'll be until early September. For only the second time since I moved to Nairn from Culloden (near Inverness) in 2000, I shall be away during the Nairn Highland Games weekend, so hope that

As I mentioned in my welcome message at the beginning of this month I am travelling out to Spain during October to 'complete' on the purchase of my holiday home. I leave tomorrow and will return to Nairn (in the north of Scotland) on 6th November. I anticipate a busy few weeks ahead, although I am hoping they will be pleasurable, too. I shall not have one of my own laptops with me, but may visit