{"id":5437,"date":"2015-11-20T01:14:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T17:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/carol-ingram-returns-after-an-amazing-four-week-holiday-to-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:07:27","slug":"carol-ingram-returns-after-an-amazing-four-week-holiday-to-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/carol-ingram-returns-after-an-amazing-four-week-holiday-to-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Ingram returns after an amazing four week holiday to the UK!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My holiday was a little over 4 weeks.\u00a0 The main purpose of my trip was to visit family in the UK and be present for an extended family get-together for the pre-wedding \u2018bash\u2019 of my great niece.\u00a0 The party was two-fold and was being held to celebrate my long overdue visit with Arthur after a hiatus of 6 years and also to give the opportunity to those not attending the wedding to celebrate with the soon to be bride and groom. The wedding took place in Dubai on 28 October.\u00a0For many reasons the timing of my trip was good but mainly for personal reasons.<\/p>\n

En route we had a 3 day stopover in Dubai, which I was not initially very excited about but so very glad we made the effort.\u00a0 Although we arrived in 49 degree temperatures, we quickly learned how to survive and made the very best of our time there.\u00a0 A strange observation maybe but everywhere I went I noticed lovely fragrances \u2013 seemed to me the perfume trade does very well there in Dubai and although cars do not particularly interest me, my head was like on a swivel looking at the types of vehicles I didn\u2019t know existed.<\/p>\n

\"1\"From Dubai we headed to my home town of Liverpool, England where we had a jam packed week catching up with immediate family, a dinner party or two, visiting my old haunts, including the famous Philharmonic pub where I used to attend poetry sessions as a teen just so I could be in with the cool crowd in Liverpool, the hallowed Liverpool FC ground and the Cavern club in Matthew St made famous by the fab four.\u00a0 We also attended a music festival in the beautiful Sefton Park where we enjoyed the best of famous local bands and visited the church in the pretty Woolton Village where our Cilla\u2019s (Black) funeral was recently held.\u00a0 All this along with the \u2018party\u2019 made for quite a week.<\/p>\n

Following our visit to the UK, we headed for a 5 day stay in the beautiful city of Barcelona where we had booked an apartment.\u00a0 The apartment itself was really lovely, complete with marble flooring and shuttered windows in a pretty tree lined street just ten minutes\u2019 walk from the magnificent Sagrada Familia, which we visited most days \u2013 too much to soak up in one day alone. We did the touristy thing and took a bus which showcased the best of the city and its surrounds.\u00a0 This was so worthwhile as it allowed us to see things and places we would not otherwise have seen and, could then decide on which of those places we would like to return to and explore on foot. Just wondering around the city taking in the atmosphere and sipping on a coffee in one of the many stylish bars people watching was fun and relaxing \u2013 and of course the architecture is something else \u2013 did I mention Gaudi?<\/p>\n

\"3\"<\/a>From Spain, we travelled to\u00a0Dubrovnik \u2013 It\u2019s hard to know where to start about its natural beauty so will straight to Dubrovnik \u2018Old Town\u2019 \u2013 just magnificent! To walk those historic marble flagstones and learn its history was a fabulous experience. Game of Thrones fans will appreciate it when I say that seeing for myself where \u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 was filmed was a highlight of my trip \u2013 I couldn\u2019t believe it when I actually saw \u2018Kings Landing\u2019 for the first time! A truly magnificent place to which I\u2019d love to return.<\/p>\n

\"2\"We then returned to the UK where we enjoyed more family time, more parties, meeting new nephews and nieces born since our last trip, day trips into North Wales, (which I love -I\u2019m half Welsh), enjoying beautiful countryside and castles \u2013 all of this thrown in with shopping trips, visits to old ale houses, lunches with old friends, some last seen whilst living in South Africa made for a very special holiday.<\/p>\n

My favourite meal \u2013 eating authentic paella in Spain!<\/p>\n

My favourite drink \u2013 sampling the local wines<\/p>\n

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