My Blogs including travel logs and sketches

  Hammamet 2026 3rd May 2026. Sunday. We booked 12 days in Tunisia, a little town called Hammamet, south of Tunis, on the Mediterranean. The flight only took 2 hours 45 mins from Gatwick to Enfidha airport. Passport control was relatively easy, they logged where we were staying though. There was a luggage and body scan before leaving the airport. No indication what it was for. We had arranged a transit and we had no problems finding our bus. It's 56km to Hammamet and most of it is motorway. The terrain was arid, flat scrub land and olive trees. It was only 40 mins to town, but the driver got lost and we ended up going round the town 3 times. The journey ended up taking 1 and a half hours. We were the last to be dropped off at the Golden Tulip hotel, right by the beach. It was still relatively early, 18.00, plenty of time for a drink before a meal. But there was a problem.   "Sorry sir, but we are full up. We've arranged for you to stay at another hotel. " "Wh...

  Another trip to Agadir, and accidental discovery of an amazing beach Agadir beach 10/01/26 Back to the Village for the 4th time. It has been freezing all week. North and west suffered most. Glad to get out of it. 10 days in Morocco for a bit of sun , hopefully. But there were no trains to Gatwick! Luckily we managed to book a last minute cab. We were booked on British Airways flight 12.55. We don't usually book BA. When you book it doesn't say that the seats are extra. £50 , and those are the cheapest ! BA do not issue boarding passes until the day before. When we tried to check in, my bag was rejected. We had to find someone to book it in manually. We had a sight seeing tour round Gatwick on the bus. The reason - there was a problem with our designated plane. We had to use a " spare " one parked at the end at of the airport. I don't know how long it had been parked up, but it sounded pretty ropey when it fired up, like a washing machine that had seen better day...

  My cartoon sketches on current political affairs 27/4/26 A gunman storms the White House at a dinner with Trump in attendance just before Charles and Camilla due for a state visit 11/3/26 Trump says "We've won the war." Then Iran blows up a major oil storage facility in Kuwait and sets fire to 3 cargo ships and an oil tanker 5/03 HMS Dragon delayed from sailing to help defend air base in Cyprus which cam under attack. Equipped with wrong type of missle 2/03/26 Starmer gives permission for American planes to fly from UK bases for defense purposes only after Israel and America invade Iran  15/02/26 Starmer announces that he is sending a task force to patrol N Atlantic because of the perceived Russian threat. 09/02/26 McSweeney and Allen quit as row over Mandelson's appointment as ambassador grows 01/02/26 More revelations about about ex Prince Andrew Windsor and his association with Epstein 26/01/26 Labour's National Exec Committee, controlled by Starmer, block Bu...

              My memories from a time that we would all probably prefer to forget 20/4/2020  Richard Branson  quote after asking for a loan from the government 24/04/2020 Boris Johnson nearly dies after contracting Covid 24/04/20 Trump says "Bleach kills Covid ". 26/04/20 Footballer Moise Kean breaks social isolation rules by having a party with his team mates 29/04/20 Boris Johnson's message to stay at home. (Wilfred was born 29/4 )                                16/04/20 Captain Tom Moore starts his charity walk.                                                                      30/04/20 Tom Moore walked 100 t...