Decision made - price paid!

I have been considering options for my forthcoming 40th birthday for weeks now. This is not like me at all. Normally I know what I want, or where I want to go and I do some t'internet research make a decision - job done.


But not this time, this time I just could not decide; I wanted memorable and interesting but relaxing, sunny but not just a beach, new but not too long a flight...


~ My first plan was a combined beach and safari trip to Africa - it ticked every box, but there was a slight issue <cough> around increased kidnapping of Western tourists  in the area - p'raps not then, eh?
~ I considered Whale Watching and northern lights in Greenland - memorable, oh yes, but warm/sunny?? I think not.
~ I looked at New York - memorable of course, but again the temperature was an issue, and relaxing??? maybe not
~ Egypt - been there, done that. Lovely and warm but not new and also a few political troubles in Cairo... not this time.
~ Dubai / UAE appears to be a lot of very posh buildings in an otherwise pretty featureless desert where women should not drive and reporting a rape can land the victim in prison for adultery... that'll be a 'no' then.
~ Other part of the USA, road trips to take in the Grand Canyon amongst others, were all struck off for various reasons


Frankly I was getting bored with my own plans!!! Then I looked at Mexico.
Flight of 11 hours is stretching the boundaries for a week, but other than that - it is warm, check. it is new, check. it is beach, check. it is historically interesting, check. it has a 5 star Thomson Sensatori hotel, check in!!!!


Decision made, phew!


I priced it up on the web, then went to the Thomson shop in town and spoke to a lovely lady called Yve there - she did us a great deal on a better room for the same price and she'll email the hotel and tell them it's my birthday :-)
Because we were within 12 weeks of the holiday, we had to pay in full - ouch! - but I'm worth it!


¡Arriba!

The start of this blogging malarky...

I have a lady I have only ever met once to thank for this new venture - Mrs McD, who has a passion for all things vintage, including a love of Jacqmar silk scarves. She is the lovely wife of an ex-colleague of mine and writes a Blog of her own all about her life and loves, which I  read ... I wanted to comment on one of her posts, so had to sign-up, and so, dear reader, here we are...


As anyone who knows me will know I have an opinion on most things and am (generally) brutally honest, so if you ask me for my opinion you will get it - some people love me for it, others less so :-)


How often I will Blog will probably depend on how often the world in general, or a small part of it moves me to do so - good or bad, happy or sad. We'll just see how it goes, if it's anything like Twitter it will soon fizzle out, but that was because of the lack of wordage allowed in that medium, not a problem here!


Right, we're off - hold on tight, who knows where this might lead...