Upcoming holidays:

Upcoming Holidays:
25 January 2025 - Sandy is taking a four day cruise - Sydney to Hobart and return.
April 2025 - Not a cruise! - instead a trip to Brisbane to watch the Panthers vs Dolphins game, and of course to see the family.
August 2025 - And again, not a cruise! - a weekend in Sydney to see Star Wars: A New Hope, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing the music live.
27 September 2025 - Slightly early celebration for Paul's 70th birthday - 7 day Barrier Reef cruise on the Carnival (ex-P&O) Encounter.
August - September 2026 - 12 day "British Isles with France and Belfast" cruise on the Majestic Princess then a stay in the UK afterwards.


Friday, 15 August 2014

Day 3 - Poole


Today we decided to go to Poole.  Found our way there with no trouble - it's really just next door to Bournemouth - although again via an astounding number of roundabouts.
We found a place to park, in a shopping centre car park which turned out to be in a pretty good location.  I found another 3 Mobile store, and unlike the one in Bournemouth, the guys in Poole were really helpful.  They sold me a sim card for my phone for the 1 pound price that I expected, but which the guys at Bournemouth said would cost 11 pounds (even if they had one, which they didn't).  So, I'm all digital again - both my iPad and iPhone are now working as intended. 
We then went down to the local museum - it's quite small but really nicely set out.  We spent quite some time there looking at the exhibits before wandering around the waterfront for a while.  Then we decided to wander back to the shopping centre to look for lunch, and the heavens opened up.  We only had one umbrella, but that was one more than a lot of people had.  After a fair bit of looking we found a cafe that had a table free and got a really nice lunch, then found our way back to our hotel.
After that we went for another walk, to the main Boscombe shopping area this time - about a mile in the other direction from the Bournemouth shopping area.  Along the way we came across a Launderette so we took the chance to get some washing done.


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