Photos - Skiing in Kaprun, Austria - January 2010

Much belated set of photos from our recent skiing trip (or should that be charter airline-a-thon) to Kaprun in Austria, with the lovely ladies Morley.

Test Posting .. wonder if the move from FTP worked?

This is a test posting, as I am wondering if the DNS changes etc. have worked to allow migration away from FTP posting, and the move to Blogger custom posting?

Let's see ...

Prague Summer Party

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Originally uploaded by domfells.

We spent the weekend just gone in Prague - attending Francis & Emmanuel's annual summer party.

This year we floated up and down the River Vltava, and of course the them was nautical. Myself, Paul and Ed are shown in this picture.

We were also able to catch up with friends, and meet baby AJ for the first time - a very cute chap.

Life after travel ...

In case anyone was wondering - there is life after travelling, its just not quite as relaxing!



Anne has started back to work in sunny Soho. This is great news, and means that she can now keep me in the fashion to which I have become accustomed!



To fill some of my spare time until I start working again - between interviews and general household duties - I am putting together a Google Map of our travels. It will show each place we stayed, with a short note and a link to any photos. Watch this space for further updates.

Homeward Bound

Hi all,

So that's it -- this is the final overseas post of our round the world trip.

We are just about to check out of our hotel in Miami South Beach, go for lunch and then head off to the airport for our flight back to London.

Miami has been fun - its a great place for people watching!

Thanks to all who have been following our trip on this blog, and posting comments along the way.

We arrive back in London tomorrow morning, and hope to recover rapidly from any jet lag --- we will endeavour to get in touch with people and start catching up as soon as possible.

Cheers,

D & A

p.s. Looking forward to a West Ham win at the Emirates tomorrow ;-)

The Final Countdown!

Hi all

Just a quick update: we are in the final week of our travels now :-( it's been a fantastic few months but it seems to have sped by.

We finished up in San Diego, and headed off to New Orleans for the weekend - we had a little condo apartment right in the french quarter, so didn't have to stray too far for the "action". New Orleans has obviously suffered heavily as a consequence of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but they are definitely putting things back together ... the tourist areas are very much alive and kicking -- the party atmosphere has not been dampened at all. We wandered the streets of the french quarter, took in some jazz, did some late night cocktail drinking and ate some pretty good dinners!

From New Orleans we flew to Miami, picked up a hire car and drove across to Naples on the Gulf Coast -- we stayed in Naples until Saturday with family friends of Anne's in their very nice house; using the pool, the beach and the residents facilities. It was the lap of luxury, and we were very sad to leave after being made so welcome; particularly by their chocolate labrador Guinness. I thought Anne was going to try and sneak him into our hire car when we left.

We are now staying in a condo just north of Naples, on Estero Island - actually Fort Myers Beach --- it is beautiful, we are right on the beach - we can hear the waves from our bedroom and watch the sunset whilst having dinner. Its going to be very hard to leave tomorrow.

Tomorrow we head to Miami, where we are staying South Beach for two nights before our flight back to London on Friday evening.

It will be sad to finish our trip - we have had a wonderful time, particularly catching up with friends and meeting new babies etc. on our travels; but at the same time we are looking forward to catching up with everyone back in Europe.

Will write again from Miami.

Cheers,

D & A