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Rob's Travels

In the early days of this site, I hand-crafted pages for each holiday - San Diego in 1997, New England in 1995, Boston in 2002 and Spain in 2005.  Nowadays I just use my Flickr photo albums to tell the story.
  • 2018 - Forth Bridge Climb
  • 2018 - Queen Mary 2 to the fjords
  • 2017 - A very hot second visit to Majorca
  • 2016 - First visit to Majorca with friends
  • 2015 - Concours of Elegance, Holyrood, Edinburgh
  • 2015 - Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic Crossing - from New York to Southampton via Halifax
  • 2014 - Kent and St. Malo, home via Stratford on Avon
  • 2013 - Cornwall
  • 2012 - Queen Mary 2 Autumn Getaway
  • 2012 - Lake District
  • 2011 - By Classic Mini from Scotland to Switzerland and back
  • 2010 - By Classic Mini to Holland and Bavaria.
  • 2010 - Visiting the SS Rotterdam Cruise Hotel in Rotterdam
  • 2009 - St. Nicholas' Day in Brussels
  • 2009 - Birmingham for MINI 50
  • 2008 - Mediterranean Cruise on board QE2
  • 2007 - Zeebrugge by QE2
  • 2006 - Italy with car club
  • 2005 - Spain - driving holiday with car club
  • 2002 - Boston - long weekend trip to visit friends.
  • 2001 - New England in the Fall (Connecticut & Massachusetts)
  • 2000 - Holland Mini Tour
  • 1997 - San Diego, Long Beach & Los Angeles
  • 1996 - North & South Carolina & Rhode Island
  • 1996 - Connecticut & Massachusetts in the snow
  • 1995 - Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Quebec
This is a wee section I added in the mid 90s to reflect two families who I ultuimately met through the Internet.  Andy & Sally McRory and their friends the Marianos.  This resulted in me making a number of visits to America, and most of them making a number of visits to the UK and Ireland.

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My Friends The Marianos 

Sally (see below) introduced me to her friend Carla in 1995, then in 1998 (I think!) Carla's sister Jana was studying in London and decided to come up to visit me and my family even though she didn't know any of us - a bit of a brave gamble for her but it seems to have paid off!

Our two families are now in close contact and my Mum is a good friend of Jana's mum Nancy.


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My Friends Andy & Sally

None of my American trips would have happened if it wasn't for my good friends Andy & Sally McRory. I met Andy through CompuServe's UK Forum in around 1994 where he was looking for information about his family's roots in Scotland - we became email pals.

He visited Scotland and we all had a fantastic time showing him around our wee country - he must have been impressed because he brought his wife Sally back with him in May 96 and we did it all again - even the ceilidh - he then returned in 1997 to do research for a book and again with Sally in 1999 when we toured Scotland and Ireland together.  They've not been back since, but I do hope to see them again someday soon!

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