I spent New Year with her and her family
End May, my friend Ilona and I decided to make a tour around the UK.
Before we started the tour, I showed her a bit of London. Next day early morning we took the Bus and started our tour. We were 10 different nationalities on board !
First stop was in Cambridge where we visited the town on the River cam with a punt boat.
York was a beautiful town and we visited the Roman bath.
We saw Hadrian's wall and the beautiful landscape until we arrived at the Scottish border.
We loved Edinburgh very much and stayed there for two days.
The next day we drove to Loch Ness and were so lucky because we had wonderful sunny weather
The drive through the Highlands was just breathtaking
And then we followed the traces of the Beatles in Liverpool
visited Stratford upon Avon
and arrived the next day in Bath. Where we literally took a bath, it poured and we didn't see very much of the city.
Stonehenge too, was rather wet, fortunately I had seen it the year before when the sun was shining.
After we had returned to London we spent another day there and met Marie from After 60.
Beginning August I went as I do each year, to my friends in Eastbourne at the English South East coast.
It's a beautiful place and I always discover new things to see.
On my way back to Brussels, I stopped again in London for the day,
until I took the Eurostar (train) back to Brussels in the evening.
Normally in October or November I spent 12 days in Egypt at the Red Sea. But this time I couldn't due to the political troubles there.
Instead I followed the invitation of my friend Claudie and went again to the South of France end October,
to collect some sunshine, and enjoy the exceptionally warm weather. This usually helps me to go through the dark, cold and short winter days.
Now 2013 is over and I wish you all a happy New Year !
