The first outing of the month was on the first Friday; in the evening after dinner at Vico's we went to the Royal Academy to see "Painting the Modern Garden:Monet to Matisse".


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Day 4 was Adrian's birthday. I had planned a little boat trip for it.
The weather didn't look too promising while we were having breakfast at the hotel but we decided to press on with the trip.

We drove to Port de Sóller, parked the car and caught the boat to Sa Calobra and the Torrents de Pareis.


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After 2 nights in Las Vegas  it was time to go. Vegas loved us so much (sadly, unrequited love) that she tried to stop us by engineering some heavy traffic and some kind of ‘incident’. (We saw a helicopter on the ground as the traffic was diverted via the Bellagio car park. It didn’t look like a police or ambulance helicopter, so it wasn't a road ( Read more... )

I normally arrange a surprise trip or a surprise something for Adrian's birthday, and as he had never been in Venice (a city he adores) on his special day, it was high time  we did!
Add to this that La Traviata - an opera that we love - was on at La Fenice, et voila'!

Adrian's birthday started with breakfast in the hotel courtyard


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It's not my birthday yet for another 20 minutes or so but I have already started celebrating.

We've been out all day.

First stop was 'The Shard' the newest skyscraper to grace (or blight! - take your pick) London's skyline. It opened to the general public a couple of weeks ago.


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When I got home tonight, this was waiting for me in the kitchen


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We went to a really nice place.


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Unlike previous years, I worked on my birthday, but at sunset

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Lynne and Miranda said that they would call for a cup of tea this afternoon to see us and the lovely Ricardo (bazanges ) who's visiting for a few days ( Read more... )

Our first port of call was the Victoria and Albert museum, an oasis of art and peace in the nightmare that is London during half-term (we walked past the 300 yard long queue outside the Natural History and the shorter line for the Science museum, full of ill-tempered mothers and ill-behaved children).


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