Our summer holiday has been an entirely virtual logistic.Accommodation, travel, holiday insurance, maps and guidebooks, new digital camera (last one died a death on recent camping trip), RAC routeplanner: all sourced and bought on-line.
If that was not enough, we received our 'e-tickets' 2 days ago inviting us to take a virtual tour of the boat that will sail us from Plymouth-Santander.
What a fabulous thing! We 'virtually' strolled around the on-board swimming pools, the restaurants, the cinema and even our cabin accommodation - all the time gathering zeal for our holiday. Fired with enthusiam, the girls suggest we use Google Earth to take a look at our destination.
Oh my! We type in the name of the vilage near St. Jean de Luz and the Google Earth virtual globe spins, slows to a halt and zooms right in through the Pyrenees, giving us not only a bird's eye view of our accommodation, which turns out to be just 30yds from the beach (fab, this means the sherpas gets a rest!), but also photos of the beach, the surf and of numerous seafood restaurants nearby.
And now, thanks to my virtual insight, I can't wait to get there. Roll on Saturday!
Will be back to blighty and the blog around 5th September.
1 comment:
Hi Debra,
Just popped over to say Hi after you visited my blog. I've always fancied the Plymouth-Santander holiday and would love to hear more about it.
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