So a year ago almost once day we came to Barcelona and one of my favourite things is to buy a Harley T-shirt from each city we visit. Last year Mrs Fogg walked me all over Barcelona to 3 separate “apparent” Harley stores to find each one shut down, to then actually find the real Harley store on 6 Jan 2025, the main public holiday of the year and it was closed!

Roll forward 12 months, we know exactly where the store is, 90 minute walk away, it’s not a public holiday and we are set! Siesta time apparently is 12pm to 2pm, so Mrs Fogg decided we would stop for food and arrive there bang on 2pm, yey!

Slight problem, she read the website wrong, siesta time is 2pm to 4pm, oh well time for another 90 minute walk back empty handed, AGAIN!

Still Barcelona has awesome Christmas lights until the 8th Jan! And tonight we are off to a Nichelin Star Japanese restaurant. Oh and it ain’t snowing and we have 10 to 15 degrees with sunshine.

A nice break in Agia Pelagia, at the Villa Hara, blighted only by the fact that one security door was broken oh and they are building two villas behind it, so come Monday morning, building site noise.

Today a final womble to the beach and then one of Mrs Fogg’s famous, “I found a cove and it’s just over here” conversations, 3 miles later, 2 lots of 70 degree inclines and a woman on a stick and we made it to a beautiful little cover that is closed for the season! Queue the long walk back and 2 inclines. Oh I love to go a rambling!

And tomorrow we are up at 7am (5am UK time), packed and out of the villa by10am, then pootling around for the day, drop the car by 730pm on a plane at 10pm and eventually landing, then driving back home for 2am Saturday. Gosh I love 21hour days.

Just a short trip up the road is this wonderful little cove of Bali, Crete. What more could you want in a quiet cove, beaches whales and instagrammers/ tokkers/ facialbookers, posting their piccy to their thousands of followers.

Oh and they got food and drink, sorted then

There is another Bali HERE

A full on tour of of the tiny country of Montenegro. Our guide Ana and her driver took us through Kotor up the serpentine 25 switchback road, to the local palace and then onto a local winery(oh yes), before finishing the day on a boat trip.

There is wine tasting, or WINE Tasting. In a family owned organic winery which has been in the family since 1921, where they make everything, wine, jams, honey, raki, you name it, they do it.

When it came to the wine tasting they plonked 3 white and 3 red bottles on the table and invite you to drink it all! And the about 12 different varieties of raki.

As part of Mrs Fogg’s birthday treat (yes her birthday extends weeks if not months past the sell by date), I arrange overnight accommodation and an 11 course tasting menu (with accompanying wine) at the 2 Michelin Star Angel at Hetton in the Yorkshire Dales.

The food is simply amazing and after 4 hours with what seemed endless food and wine, we are stuffed. Just time now for a wafer thin mint!

And just in case 11 courses ain’t enough, a further 3 for breakfast! But no wine this time.