Around the World and Skegness

Well the last Bank Holiday of this glorious summer season!! is upon us and I am sat here watching the rain pour down the windows. At least the last few weeks have been really good and hopefully a lot of school children have been able to enjoy some sun, sea and sand around our beautiful coasts. It may not have been to good for a lot of the big holiday companies as there are some great bargains to be had even now. We have managed to bag a 3 day break next weekend at our favorite Park Resorts holiday camp, Southview, at a good price so hoping the weather will play nice for next weekend and we will see some sun.

At the other end of the scale our Daughter has decided to go off, again, on one of her trips to foreign lands. This time to Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. She is taking a tour this time with G Adventures. the trip is their Mayan Sun tour which is a 16 day trip from Playa Del Carmen in Mexico to Antigua in Guatemala with some very nice stops in between.
Having left home on Thursday for a very early trip to Heathrow to catch her 0950 flight it started ok with only a 30 minute delay which ended up with the flight arriving 10 minutes early in Miami so the pilot must have put his foot down. From there it was down hill. She was due to catch a connection to Cancun about 1 hour later so not much hanging around in the airport. Approx 3 hours later they left after a 110 minute delay, apparently they had mislaid the pilot. Anyway she arrived safe in Cancun early evening, Friday morning UK time. The last message received stated the weather was fantastic, the place was great and the beaches beautiful so a good start. She joins the tour today at Playa Del Carmen, stops a couple of days with tours around either Mayan ruins or the beach... not sure which she is doing. I hope to bring updates over the next few days if she manages to get in touch.

Her other half, not to be outdone is heading in the other direction, both outwards and upwards. He is heading to Africa in a few days and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and hoping to get to the top, all 19,341 feet of it, for a very good cause, the Alzheimer's Society. See his web page for the full story. We wish him the best of luck for what will be a tough climb.

Hope to be able to update on all the adventures soon although don't think our trip to Skegness will be quite as exciting.