Holidays - Steve Jones

Thursday, January 04. 2018

New Year in Bristol


Bath	Bristol	Mercure Hotel	SS Gt Britain	Wells

Saturday 30/12/2017	Arrived at The Mercure Hotel in Bristol. En route we stopped for FIVE hours in Worcester where we did a mixture of shopping. Breakfast in a Witherspoons and a leisurely wander about inside Worcester Cathedral. On arrival at our Hotel in Bristol we were parked behind the Wolves FC team coach
Sunday 31/12/2017	This was a "Free Day" in Bristol. Our Hotel was just two minutes walk from the river where we purchased an all day ticket to travel up and down the river. Our first stop was at the SS Great Britain. Following this we went into Bristol City Centre. Our evening meal in the Hotel was 5 courses spread out over 3 hours and included live entertainment and also a disco.
Monday 01/01/2018	After breakfast our included excursions took us to Cheddar Gorge where we stopped for two hours, then continued on to the City of Wells where were spent another hour and half.
Tuesday 02/01/2018	Our journey back home included a five hour stay in the City of Bath

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Sunday, September 24. 2017

Further to my earlier entry Sage-Virus-attack-Defeated I have now made several further changes to my website. Most things may appear cosmetic but in fact it took many hours of research, trial and error to get things working. the latest version of PHP is version 7.x but most things were written and created in the era of version 5.x. Due to this the creators of software such as PHPBB3, Coppermine and so on have been upgrading their software accordingly. However not all of the software has been or can be upgraded for one reason or another.
I have now managed to work round this problem by creating TWO web sites on the same computer, the main website runs PHP7, anything that doesn't work or does not work correctly is maintained on the second website running PHP5.4 It was quite a feat setting this up and for anyone interested, while it was still fresh in my mind I have written a guide here.

On our way back from London we called into the Coventry Transport Museum. I have been to plenty of similar museums in the past but I consider this one to be the best so far. There are several floors of exhibitions ranging from pedal cycles - penny farthing, cycles with multiple seats - right through to self driving electric cars. From Double decker buses to vehicles that have broken land speed records.
Entry is free but there is provision for voluntary donations. In addition there is a very nice cafe.

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Sunday, September 10. 2017

London Palaces and Castles

During August Carol, John, Gail and Steve had a lovely 5 day mini break in London. Please click a Photo to see the full album

Buckingham Palace	Hampton Court Palace	Kensington Palace	London By Night

River Thames	St Giles Hotel	Tower of London	Windsor Castle

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Saturday, May 13. 2017

April 2017

Iberia Cruise Photo Albums April 2017

Cadiz	Ferrol	Gibralter	La Rochelle	Lisbon

Oporto	Oriana	Santander	Santiago D.C.	Seville

Please click on a picture to see the photo album for that location.

Here is the itinerary for our cruise during April 2017:

Date	Details
Tue 11/04/2017	Southampton, England	Embark Ship
Wed 12/04/2017	At Sea For 1 Day	Arrive Early Morning, Depart Afternoon
Thu 13/04/2017	Santander, Spain	Arrive Morning, Depart Afternoon
Fri 14/04/2017	Ferrol, Spain	Arrive Early Morning, Depart Afternoon
Sat 15/04/2017	Oporto
Sun 16/04/2017	At Sea For 1 Day
Mon 17/04/2017	Seville (tours from Cadiz)	Arrive Early Morning, Depart Evening
Tue 18/04/2017	Gibraltar	Arrive Early Morning, Depart Early Afternoon
Wed 19/04/2017	Lisbon, Portugal	Arrive Early Morning, Depart Afternoon
Thu 20/04/2017	At Sea For 1 Day
Fri 21/04/2017	La Rochelle	Arrive Morning, Depart Afternoon
Sat 22/04/2017	At Sea For 1 Day
Sun 23/04/2017	Southampton, England	Debark Ship

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Friday, January 06. 2017

Déjà vu

Déjà vu, from French, literally "already seen", is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has already been experienced in the past. Déjà vu is a feeling of familiarity, and déjà vécu (the feeling of having "already lived through" something) is a feeling of recollection.
01	During May 2016 Carol, John, Gail and Steve spent a week on the Isle Of Wight stopping at the Langham Court Hotel Shanklin. Gail and Steve had room 202, Carol and John had room 203. Both couples had booked the holiday with Travelstyle. Both couples plus Pete and Karen decided to book a mystery tour with Harry Shaw Holidays to see in the new year 2017. Not only did we all end up in the Langham Court Hotel but Gail and Steve were allocated room 202, Carol and John room 203! We found this to be a great Hotel who went that extra mile and did lots of extras to make this a fantastic stay. The Manageress hosted a couple of quizzes. Pass the parcel, Provided a buffet To let in the New year. On new years day during the afternoon everyone was treated to a bowl of soup and several sandwiches, later tea/coffee and cakes. Everyone at the hotel was given a new years day card, every guest even had a surprise gift at the dinner table. Everyone had a great time. Live Entertainment was provided every night.
02	Amongst our Christmas presents this year (2016) Christopher bought us a "Raspberry Pi 3" pre-loaded with about 20,000 games. This little box connects to our 49" Television set, you then add a couple of game controllers wired or wireless and any of the popular controllers such as nintendo, snes, sega and so on. Then you play all of those favourite computer games from the past such as Space invaders, frogger, bomberman, donkey kong, super mario brothers, lemmings - you name it and it is more likely to be there than not! All of the games are identical in every way to the originals.
Meals a plenty! Every Thursday during December our group of 6 booked festive meals at various local pubs before going to the Thursday night quiz. Christmas dinner and also our Boxing day meal this year took place at "Farmer Johns."
In other news, Daniel and Faustine came over from France for the Christmas period between 24-31 December 2016. Paul and Zena's house is nearing completion and so hope to be moving in soon. Georgia has finally taken her first steps.

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Sunday, October 16. 2016

Jersey September 2016


16 New Street	Bonne Nuit Harbour	Gorey Harbour	Jersey Pearl	War Tunnels

Military Museum	Norfolk Lodge Hotel	St Aubin	St Brelade	Quetivel Mill

Museum and Art Gallery			St Catherines Bay

La Rocco Tower	Saint Martin	Steam Motor Museum	St Helier	St Ouens

Please click an album thumbnail to see the entire album.

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Sunday, September 04. 2016

August 2016

August 2016. Please click thumbnail to see the complete album.


Barmouth	Canons Ashby	Kedleston Hall

In addition to our visits to the above 3 locations during August 2016. Between 27 July and 3 August Daniel and Faustine came over from France and stopped at our house for the week.
Between 23 August and 7 September. Keiths dogs "Bobby", "Daisy" and "Lady" came to stop whilst Keith and Alison went to Cyprus on Holiday.
On 8 August Steve went with Paul to Star City to watch the latest Star Trek film "Beyond"
on 27 August there was a family BBQ at Sam and Petes House in Erdington to celebrate Sams Birthday.
Not only did Callum get his "A Levels" but he also passed his driving test at the first attempt!

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