About Me !

Welcome to Excursionists.co.uk my travel blog and info site.

I was quite late before I started travelling, 28 years old in fact, but my first overseas  trip, which was to Uppsala Sweden, was a real eye opener and opened the floodgates to what has become quite a life of journeys and jaunts!

After Uppsala, was a summer vacation to Greece and Crete and then my first ( of many) ski trips, this one to Kitzbuhel, Austria. By this point I had come to realise that my life in banking in the UK was just too staid and predictable so, I changed my life completely and got a job in finance in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia!!

Hmmmmm, quite a turn around from my first 28 years spent in North Wales, with the occasional trip down south to the big smoke, London!

Little did I know it that my move to Riyadh which was originally to be no more than 3 years max, would be such a permanent life changer which would include marrying and raising two children who are now finishing up their last year at their Universities. The happiest and most memorable 15 years of my adult life were spent in Bahrain, which, after living in Saudi Arabia with all its restrictions for 5 years was like moving to Paradise Island! More on that later ..............

During these 20 years, as a family, we have travelled extensively, first with my husband, to China, Hong Kong ( 3 times), Philippines, Thailand ( 3 times), Cyprus, Jeddah, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Ixtapa in Mexico, Kos in Greece.

We got married in Maui, Hawaii, then continued on to San Francisco, Houston and Wales before going back to Bahrain.

Oh yes, my husband is originally from Egypt, so in Egypt we've been to Cairo of course, (many times) Alexandria, El Alamein, Hurghada, Soma Bay, Sharm El Sheikh, (several times), Abu Simbel, Luxor, Aswan, to name just the ones I can remember.

Many, many trips to the US: New York, Boston, Connecticut, Orlando, Florida,Daytona Beach, Vermont, Houston, Washington DC, Hilton Head South Carolina, touring from Napa Valley down the coast through Carmel and Monterey ( two of my most favourite places of all time ) to Las Vegas!

Hmm..there's more, I'll remember later.......

In the winters, mostly European ski trips to Kitzbuhel in Austria (also once in the summer to play golf !) , Wengen in Switzerland,  Courcheval in France and more (later).

Afetr we relocated to London we made multi trips to Europe of course, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Austria and others.

THAT, was all while our kids were with us, SO, once they left for their Universities, we started a new spate of travelling and discovered cruising, not JUST cruising, cruising with GOLF!! We are both very keen golfers and have a very close friend who is a member of our golf club, Foxhills, who organises Golf Cruises. We've now been on two golf cruises, both to the Caribbean, although visiting different island each time, Barbados,Martinique, Bequai ,Dominica, ST Kitts, Antigua, St Maarten, Tortola, (can't forget Pusser's Bar, Tortola ) ST Barts, Grenada, Aruba,.

We have fallen in love with cruises because you unpack ONCE and are transported to magical destinations effortlessly ! Our next one is coming up later this year to the Mediterranean on the Sea Dream.

Oh, of course, these are just the places we have been to together, my husband has visited so many more on business, I won't even start on those.

I'm noting all these places here because people often say that as I travel so much and as I love designing websites, that I should develop a travel type of website/blog,  so.... I thought the time was right and here it is. Well, the start of it at least.

I'll add things as I go along, photos, reviews, recommendations, tips, it will be a labour or love as I really enjoy writing and with all the years of booking flights, hotels, transport, entertainment, kids camps, golf courses etc etc I hope that my experiences will be useful to those who share our wanderlust!!

The best thing is that the work I do now, affiliate marketing and graphic design , can be done anywhere at any time. In fact, the last time I visited Bahrain earlier this year, I developed a website for my long time friends from the best riding stable in Bahrain so you see, making websites is not work for me at all, it's just something I love to do !

Another of my main websites is here: Exploring Hypnotherapy

  WELCOME to my World, and

WELCOME to my presence on the World, Wide Web !!