by Susie | Oct 21, 2008 | Television, Travel, Uncategorized
Mondays won’t be the same for a while as I will really miss my travels down the Amazon with the intrepid, very cheerful Bruce Parry. What a superb program ‘Auntie Beeb’ it has been. Last evening Mr Parry reached the final stretch of...
by Susie | Sep 25, 2008 | Television, Travel, Uncategorized
How good it is to have the former Royal Marine Bruce Parry back for another great series. Often not one to watch, while having supper! but how very entertaining is “Amazon with Bruce Parry” showing on BBC2 at 9pm on Monday evening...
by Susie | Sep 8, 2008 | Television, Travel, Uncategorized
It was with great delight that I watched this enchanting program on BBC1 on Sunday. The marvellous actress Joanna Lumley visited the Arctic Circle to view the mystic phenomenon of the Northern Lights. This had been her life long dream after...
by Susie | Sep 4, 2008 | The Wolds, Travel, Uncategorized, Village
Recently I started to cycle again. It is I might say a long time since I first learnt to ride and more than forty-five years since I last sat on a bike. My sister Jenny suggested that it might be a great way of getting some much needed exercise and a...
by Susie | Aug 13, 2008 | Travel, Uncategorized
Francesco da Mosto ends his fabulous series tonight as he visits to pay his respects at the war cemeteries of Gallipoli. We also see Turkey’s largest Mosque. Then finally Mosto reaches Istanbul, city founded as the centrepiece of the...
by Susie | Jul 18, 2008 | Travel, Uncategorized
I am really enjoying Italian architect Francesco’s da Mosto Mediterranean Voyage, now showing on BBC2 on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at 8.30. Sailing from Venice to Istanbul in the fabulously beautiful ” Black Swan” schooner, we follow...
