Summer 2013

Wow! Has it really been over a year since I last wrote. It seems a blink since writing last. 

I was full of good intentions in starting a blog, but I don't seem to have kept up, so here I am trying again.

This was our 25th wedding anniversary year and we wanted to make the most of it particularly as last year was one of the wettest for some time in Britain. Last year's holiday was in the Lake District was a bit of a washout. 

Windermere with clouds

We began with a London show - The Lion King - in February in freezing temperatures. This was still a time with snow on the ground, but we braved the elements and did a couple of side trips to the British and Science Museums.

Plans were put in place to go to Florida again, specifically Disney World, Seaworld and Busch Gardens. Time to renew the passports and pay for a new ESTA (visa). I definitely wanted to spend some time in t-shirt and shorts this year and not a coat, jumper and long trousers at the height of the summer last year.

Last week in May & first in June off we flew Virgin Atlantic Gatwick to Orlando and on went the t-shirt and shorts. It didn't all go well as we had a bit of rain through the 2 weeks and we picked up a stomach bug the first week. We certainly didn't stop this from enjoying ourselves & we had a great time.

Visiting Epcot

What we didn't know was that the weather here in Britain was going to be fantastic. Since getting back we've had a lot of great days out and I have been wearing t-shirts and shorts at home :-)

Olympus E-PL2

This year's break I took the E-PL2 and shot using RAW for a change. This has made the post processing possible and provided much more versatility than the Fuji FX72's jpeg files.