Plans for 2011

It is time to start the travel blog again for another year. The plans for this year are in place, well in my head for the most part, and if we fulfil them, we can count ourselves very lucky.

We are starting with a weeks trip to Seville in Spain on Monday 4th April. We are not taking the camping car, of course, but flying with RyanAir from Liverpool. You hear so many bad stories about Ryan Air so it is fingers crossed that they get us there and back. The hotel in Seville says it has wifi so we will take the netbook and keep you posted.
We have wanted to go to Seville for quite sometime now, but it has proved to be difficult to get to easily from Manchester. It is Manchester - change at Heathrow and then change again in Madrid. The other alternative was to fly direct from Manchester to Malaga and then take the train to Seville, and that seemed an attractive alternative. However, we heard that RyanAir flies from Liverpool direct to Seville beginning in April each year. I think we are on their first flight out of the year at 6.50am on that Monday morning.
We are hoping for some sunshine and a quiet week in Seville. Chris will take lots of photos and I will read and watch the world go by. We may fit some time in for a little tapas and an odd glass of vino tinto. One day, at least, we hope to take the train to Cordoba to see the great mosque.

At the beginning of May we are setting off on a six week trip to Germany and France. Our friends, Peter and Liz are coming with us for the first few weeks. We are heading for Arnhem in Holland first and then to Berlin. Berlin is a city we haven't visited before and we are looking forward to it. We then plan to come back to the Rhine and the Mosselle before spending the last couple of weeks in Alsace.

On August 31st. we will be on the train through the tunnel again, this time heading for Provence in France. We hope to spend sometime in Uzes which really impressed us last time we were there. Then we might make it to Arles for the festival du Riz sometime in September and then we are heading to the Med and Sanary-sur-Mer. We hope to explore the coast around Toulon. On the way back, we might have time to stop off in my favourite french village, Beaumes de Venise. It will be grape picking time if we get there and that should be interesting to watch.