An Age of Magic

Florida sounds good to me…

When you are living in the UK and seeing how dim the afternoons have become you know that winter has arrived and it is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. If it wasn’t for Xmas coming halfway through and adding a bit of brightness and joy to the dreariness of winter I wonder if the UK would have anyone left here in December. This is the time of year when people go away and have xmas in a warmer location.

While we cannot do that it sounds like a great idea and  destin florida vacation rentals look like they are just the medicine for people suffering from that seasonal disorder syndrome. I have been told that going there at this time of year means you have to go elbow to elbow with other tourists all looking for some warmth and sun – I could handle it I think, anything to get away from this bitter cold weather!

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My advice…go back to road maps!

We have just completed a major road trip through France, Spain and Italy and the one huge headache we had was following the new navigator that we bought recently. I have since wondered how many marriages have foundered since these new gps systems became commonplace in people’s cars…?

We got lost so many times, ended up on rural roads, farm tracks and private drives that in the end we gave up and got out the good old road map. At least it doesn’t talk at you in some annoying voice!

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Flying is still safer than driving the car

The latest air disaster which has seen an Air France Airbus 330 disappear en route from Brazil to Paris reads like every nervous flyer’s worst nightmare. Terrible weather, a storm, horrendous turbulence and then the theory that the pilots slowed the plane down too much in navigating the turbulence so that it stalled mid-air and plunged into the sea certainly makes me want to think twice about flying again.

It is so sad to think – to know – that there would have been a good number of people on that plane who would have been nervy flyers and then to have been involved in what they would have been sitting there dreading…

Still, it is well known that the trip to the airport in the car carries far more risks than the actual flight and to be true there are thousands of planes criss-crossing the skies all the time without incident. All the same, as the news trickles in about this latest disaster people will be considering going on Caribbean cruises  in bigger numbers than before. I look at it this way – that crash will not be the last one!

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