Well 2016 has no past and is drifting away as memories. Lets look forward and enjoy and experience all that 2017 can give us. Here are a few memories of mine, from walks in beautiful Devon, finally escaping and visiting New York ( a place I'd recommend anyone gets to see at leat once) and some family events (s significant birthday for my Mother). Enjoy the photographs.
After years of wanting to get to New York, this September I finally managed to make my wish come true. I had an amazing time staying in a great hotel the Nobleden in Little Italy, a boutique hotel recommended to me by a colleague. Even the flight was fairly empty, I had a whole row of seats to myself, with plenty of room to stretch out. Ironically, on the same flight upper class and premium were packed, I wonder if they were jealous of us in the back?
The weather was fabulous allowing plenty of time for sight-seeing, I managed to see plenty of the tourist sights, experienced riding the subway, the mania of Times Square, taking the time to reflect at the memorials in the rebuilt World Trade Centre, Admiringthe views and skylines from both the Rockefeller Centre and Empire State Buildings, and just walking and admiring the place. Over four days I think I nearly walked 60 miles! Here are a few photographs to give a taster of my trip.
This week I have taken a week off and taken some time away from work to recharge my batteries. I have been blessed with great weather and have managed a couple of long walks with the dog, played some golf (unfortunately I didn't play well) and took in two films. On May Day I took the dog for a hike on Dartmoor, we explored Haytor and walked around a nearby quarry. Found a new coffee stand at the Haytor car park, I'd recommend them for coffee, it was very good.
Yesterday, we took a walk around the woods near Killerton House, the bluebells were just starting to bloom making a classic British Spring scene.
I've also taken in two films this week, Captain America:Civil War and Eye in the Sky. Two contrasting movies in both their scope and style but definitely worth watch.
This week I have been fortunate to have a week away from work. I've taken the opportunity to do some maintenance on the house and have done a little exploring with a couple of day trips. Monday I visited the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton, I last visited here in 1976, when I was much younger. It was an interesting day and it was amazing how much had changed here over the years, the highlight was seeing the Concorde again, last time I visited it had been just delivered to the museum, now it is a custom built hanger. Amazing how space aged she still looks.
Later in the week I took the chance to visit a part of Dartmoor I had never seem. I visited the Meldon Reservoir, just West of Okehampton. The dog and I had a hot and sunny walk but it was well worth it the views were stunning,I think it would be worth another visit. On one side of the valley the dam and reservoir, on the other the unique and stunning Meldon Viaduct (a piece of Victorian Architecture I didn't know existed).
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