Mosaic Monday # 84 - we're on vacation (almost)

Just one week from now and I'll be on a plane, with the Senior Partner, heading for the Greek island of Corfu. This will be our second visit to Corfu, the first was 39 years ago in 1979!
We love the Greek islands and try to get away to one of them at least once a year,
This time we'll be staying at a brand new hotel, the Ikos Dassia. 
We have stayed at the Ikos Oceania on two previous trips and have high hopes for this new sister hotel.
We'll also be revisiting some of the places we discovered on that first holiday together, all those years ago.
So...............this means that Mosaic Monday will be on vacation for two weeks, returning fresh as a daisy on Monday May 28th.
That's 05/28/18 which in the US is Memorial Day this year.
My head is full of ideas and plans of what we'll see, do and experience, but truth be told we may just sit in the sun by the pool drinking Mojitos and eating wonderful food.

Je reve!

Normandy Life

An InLinkz Link-up

Mosaic Monday # 42 - deliciously floral

Since I'm still busily trying to catch up on jobs around the house (we have an artisan here working at present renovating and painting), an overgrown garden and sundry other minor chores which have accumulated whilst we've been in Crete, I needed a quick and easy post for this week's Mosaic Monday.

As I was looking through our holiday pictures yesterday I came across some which I think certainly fit the "a picture is worth a thousand words" category.

I hope you'll agree.

An InLinkz Link-up

Slipping quietly into blogging again.

Hello friends, it’s me - dipping my toes gently back into blogland with a post touching on some of the things I’ve been doing since I stopped blogging in July last year.

Quite a lot of travelling went on during the hiatus. Some of the highlights.

In September we spent a week in a pretty little cottage on the outskirts of Malvern, Worcestershire, UK.
We visited the Morgan car workshop and marvelled at the beautiful handmade cars that they create there.

Mooched around antique shops, had cosy pub lunches and wonderful cream teas in riverside cafes and reminded ourselves just how beautiful our home country still is.

 

In October we returned to Halkidiki, Greece to celebrate our 36^th wedding anniversary.

 

As a pre-Christmas treat we enjoyed a second visit to the Columbia Beach resort, Pissouri Bay, Cyprus where the weather was gloriously warm, such a treat after a cold and wet autumn in Normandy.

 

So taken are we with CBR that we went back again last month where spring had already sprung.

In the spaces between our travels life in Normandy moves gently along.

A surprise visit from a cousin and his wife was a treat, they loved our home so much they wanted to buy it but that’s just a dream of theirs for now.

Our Sunday walks are mostly taken on the beach these days, a favourite haunt of M’selle Fleur, the wide open spaces and the calming influence of the tides speak to my very soul.

As my last post linked through to Lavender Cottage and Mosaic Monday

it's only right that this one goes there too!

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à bientôt

 

Somewhere in Spain

In 2007 the Senior Partner and I enjoyed a short vacation in a rented villa, high above Spain's Costa Blanca, within the exclusive residential resort of Monte Pego.

We took three days to leisurely drive down through France and into Spain, 

staying at small hotels along the way.

Our favorite was Les Vinyes, a rural spa retreat, in the Catalonian countryside, which the SP had found online. 

our small sitting room

our delightful bedroom

"The Ardidam" restaurant is only open to the public on Friday and Saturday evenings, we were the only house guests on the mid-week evening that we stayed. At the chef/owner's suggestion we ignored the menu and sat back with a glass of full bodied red wine whilst she prepared for us a selection of tapas and a delicious dinner using fresh ingredients from her garden and the local market.

our private balcony with a view over the rooftops to the vineyards below

We only had one night there but what a wonderful experience, we hope to return one day for an extended stay.

Linking this post to

Beverly's Pink Saturday @ How Sweet The Sound

and to

Shadow Shot Sunday 2 

R&R + Retail Therapy + Reiki = Happy Me!

Taking a fast ferry

Millston Postcards provided this great image.

Close to the cathedral town of Truro, hidden away in a tiny coastal village

with the waves almost lapping at the door, is a beautiful hotel.

 The Lugger.

Hanging the Do Not Disturb notice on the bedroom door.................

will be back soon.

Vacations & Getaways Challenge with the Inspired Scrapper

A favourite pastime of mine when I can find the time, is scrapbooking.
I became interested in scrapbooking a couple of years ago and one of my first projects was a Memory Book for my baby sister Kathryn to celebrate her big 40 Birthday.
I created a scrapbook page for every year of her life.

Earlier this week, Virginia, a member of The Inspired Scrapper Design team blogged about Vacation and Getaway scrapbook layouts and asked us to share some of our own LO's.

Some of the pages in Kathryns book featured vacations, including her and husband Andrews 10th wedding anniversary trip to Venice.





Family vacation in Florida.



Skiing in Whistler.



On a visit to us here in France.
"A Mother of Two"

Since then I've also scrapbooked some of our own vacations and getaways.

In 2007 we spent some time enjoying the area around Denia in Spain.



Enjoying tapas in a beautiful square

Mr B at the top of the Empire State Building NYC, 2009.

Life's a beach in Hilton Head.

I've really enjoyed leafing through my vacation scrapbook today, hope you've enjoyed taking a mini vacation with me too!