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 Dort-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

Before the next 3 month slog where I disconnect an organisation from their current providers and move them into the 21st Century with technology, we’re taking a wee break.

Back for a week to Vill Hara in Crete, in the tiny coastal village of Agia Pelagia, HERE. We stayed here in Jul 2004 in this 5 bed mansion, split over 4 floors with pool, gym, snooker table, ping pong table and everything you could ever want.

It’s a lot cooler, but nice, however the pool takes a few mins to adjust to with an average temperature of about 9 degrees.

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.

Up early and a 2hr30min flight to Croatia, then a scenic and death defying drive across the border into Montenegro with our nutter driver

Oh and our luggage came too this time, maybe the curse of the lost luggage is over (cross fingers).

We are stopping Here