Getting There My friend and I decided to fly in a day early, and conscious of what can go wrong I planned to fly into London from Dublin the night before. As I was sat at the gate at Dublin airport waiting to board I got an unwelcome message from my friend “The flight has […]
Day 1 – Dublin to Islamabad The night before leaving I saw a news article on the BBC website about the arrest of the ex-PM in Pakistan, Imran Khan, and the subsequent rioting that had kicked off. So heading for my early morning flight I was understandably a little anxious! My flight was from Dublin […]
Day 1 After a 3 hour flight from London we arrived in a warm, but very wet, Sofia. It didn’t help that the mini bus to the hotel leaked with water dripping from the roof on to several seats. However we eventually arrived at our hotel, the Sofia Palace, damp but looking forward to what […]
So today (April 22, 2022) I finally head off on a trip I originally booked in 2019 for departure in spring 2020. Whilst I’ve travelled around Ireland a bit during these last two years, apart from a brief trip to Spain about 7 months ago there’s been little other overseas trips for obvious reasons. So […]