Over the last 4 weeks Barbara and I have gone from cruising the Nile in brilliant sunshine and warmth to freezing our backsides off on the snowy slopes of the Arinsal ski resort in Andorra.  From the sublime to the ridiculous you might say.

We had a great time in both places of course but sitting here typing this out today as the snow falls outside the office and the UK comes to a grinding halt I can honestly say if I had to choose between the two destinations now I’d be back to Luxor like a shot.

I’m just hearing that Liverpool and Manchester Airports are closed and all flights have stopped and we were told last night that Liverpool had run out of grit which must have made travelling into work this morning a lot of fun!!

We’re located between Liverpool and Southport on the coast in a place called Formby and normally we get slightly different weather than Liverpool but the snow started about an hour ago and its already pretty white outside the office windows. Read the rest of this entry »

We all have our bad days when its’ hard to “enjoy life”.

We’ve had a day or two like that over the last two days when an admin problem, (not of our making) has led to us having to deal with some issues.

But I stumbled across a great video about an artist called Sean Pace and I loved his introduction to the video and his approach to life. It made me think and put the issues we have had into perspective.

Here’s what Sean says:

“If your not enjoying life you oughta quit ‘cos you won the “cosmic lottery”,  really.

You could have been a worm or a rock or a cockroach, anything, but your a human.

You can do a lot of things and you wanna take advantage of it ‘cos it’s soon over. You dont’ live very long”.

Isnt’ that great?  We have won the “cosmic lottery”.  That’s really true and a great way of approaching things.

If you’d like to see the whole video you can see it here.

Arrived at Luxor Airport on time after good flight. Transfer through the airport was smooth and quick and we were swiftly out of the airport and after a short journey by coach we boarded the Royal Viking.

Our cabin, 301, is at the front of the ship (the pointy bit) and is really lovely.

I am really hungry now and we are just getting ready for dinner and then hopefully axrelaxing drink in the bar.

Tomorrow we have an early start as we are off the The Valley Of The Kings and I’ll be videoing as much as I can.

Speak later.

Writing this in midflight about half way between Manchester and Luxor. Also writing it with my thumb as I’m eating my breakfast of omlette, sausage, beans and has h brownies. Yum! Flight has been pretty smooth till about 5 mins ago and now…it isn’t. Ah well I’m sure it will settle down in a moment or two.

Flight is pretty full but not completely and there are a few spare seats here and there. Barbara has slept most of the way up to know. Which is not a surprise as she falls asleep on the 2 minute journey to Tesco’s.

Using the iPhone Wordpress app. to write this which is really good and allows you to add photos, etc.

Speaking of which you will find a nice picture of Barbara’s breakfast. (one for all the airline goodies out there).

I’ll have to wait until we land before I can post this up, but it’s a good way to fill in time whist flying. Better stop now as I have a small bottle of red wine to finish. (What??? At 1057 in the morning?). Yep!!

Having inadvertently run up an enormous iPhone bill in Spain last week 02’s Customer Care Department were so helpful I have nothing but praise for the them.

I travelled to Majorca last week for 2 days and used my iPhone to access the web without realising the enormous costs I was racking up.  The default setting on my iPhone meant that I was accessing the local provider and as such I was using a facility that was costing me a fortune.

You can imagine my horror when I received the bill this morning for £444 instead of my usual monthly fee of £44. Read the rest of this entry »