Including turning 50 itself, visiting a festival of lights in Berlin (going round seeing animations and lights projected onto buildings), staying in an airport hotel, sitting and watching two hours of films in a gallery (more than spent on the gallery itself), using the audio guide at the classical museum in Berlin ( Read more... )

It may sound very similar to the last one but it's significant for me. I've managed 49 and never stayed in a backpackers' hostel. Before coming home we returned to Krakow and stayed in the Dizzy Daisy hostel. I am a bed and breakfast, self-catering , even a hotel person but my conservative side has meant, til know, I've never done the hostel thing ( Read more... )

LAst of last Polish trip ones! For a few years I have wanted to visit one of these very Polish places and on this holiday I managed it! http://www.skansen.kudowa.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=47 Fairly quiet so we had chance to wander round older buildings and look at memorabilia. A sense of history, culture and the old ( Read more... )

Just back from a weekend in Barcelona - special treat!! Had a good time( saw Sagrada Familia which is the strangest building, warmer weather as well) Have at least one fifty new thing to add - not a brilliant one as you will see in due course and not one I aimed for!