Rudland family on-line

At the end of the year it was decided that Rowan and Janet and their families would be responsible for the celebrations for Christmas and Dad’s birthday. So, on 23 December Mum and I were all ready to make up to Glasgow, but the snow and cold had arrived and car was deemed inadvisable. [...]

Funchal beckoned again and we stayed at Glasgow overnight, got the Thomson flight, leaving a wee bit late because of a “nose-wheel problem”, but made up time and arrived just after lunchtime. Bus to Palms hotel and got settled in. Everything as we expected, sun shining and the sea blue. First dinner [...]