Ah the journey home, 2 hours direct from York to London, and ow due to rail improvements (aka doing nothing, creating chaos and costing millions), 2 hours to chesterfield with an hour wait then 2 hours to York.

Your safety is our responsibility so please block the vestibules and ilses since we are over crowded

And sat here in Chesterfield waiting for the York train, listening to the constant stream of delays and excuses:

• Engineering work
• Engineering works not completed correctly or on time
• Flooding
• Disruption due to late running trains
• Track repairs
• Emergency track repairs
• Insufficient drivers available to drive the trains
• Issues with the train
• Sped restrictions due to rain
• No one told us we were supposed to be running this service today and everyone had tickets for it. It’s news to us, that’s why we’re late
• Trespassers on the tracks
• But the day ain’t over until they cancel the service at Leeds and say tough!

How on earth does this country manage to survive! Why can’t they just be honest and admit they are clueless and don’t know how to fix a broken rail system.

5.5hours and 3 trains to get from London to York!

And another magic sign, nope we couldn’t fine one at all

The car is definitely the star in Back to the Future musical.

And here is Mrs Fogg looking all jaunty outside our pub (with her new peaky blinders cap as well).

And a whistle stop overnight trip to London to see Back To The Future, the Musical.

Food, drink a show and then home. A nice 650g Porterhouse to keep us going.

AI is really cool, it will answer questions you never asked, it will review your documents and amend them for you, it will even mean you never need to think for yourself.

AI will even help clean your house, like our little friend Dotti-Doris. Vacuum the carpet and wash the floors. However what it can’t do with all its tech is work out where the top of the stairs are.

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.

The last day to kill until a 10pm flight, Villa all tidied up and last wander round before heading off

Then a 90 min drive to Agios Nikolaos where we stayed with the folks in 2019. HERE

And a chance to visit the Piano Restaurant overlooking wonderful views

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.

Of falling down water

A fun day of doing little apart from enjoying the sea and sitting with a glass or two of medicine

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