by Papi | Jun 14, 2024 | Portsmouth, UK
Greetings Family and Friends, Southsea, the southern suburb of Portsmouth, is quite simply meant for strolling. The beach is of the shingle variety as was Brighton to the east from my last trip to the southern coast of England. What the beach may lack in sand, the...
by Papi | Jun 9, 2024 | Portsmouth, UK
Greetings Family and Friends, A return to On the Flip Side and another attempt at that dream of a Roving Retirement! After a much longer than initially planned stay stateside, I am once again overseas. The journey resumed where it left off – the south of England. This...
by Papi | Feb 7, 2023 | Brighton, UK
Greetings family and friends, Back in Old Blighty, that is Great Britain. More specifically, due south of London on the coast in the city of Brighton. A big-time seaside destination during the summer, but also a travel get-away regardless of the time of year. The vibe...
by Papi | Feb 3, 2023 | Cyprus, Paphos
Greetings family and friends, Cyprus in general and Paphos specifically have a lot of places reaching back into antiquity. On one of the slides in the photo gallery, one can see a map of the various archeological sites to be found around Paphos. A fair number of them...
by Papi | Jan 24, 2023 | Cyprus, Paphos
Greetings family and friends, Three weeks into my stay on the island nation of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. No sightings, as of yet, of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, in her hometown of Paphos where I am currently residing. Paphos is located...
by Papi | Jan 10, 2023 | Malta, Swieqi
Greetings family and friends, That is the protocol at the Saluting Battery – load two guns and fire one. On this day, it was fire No. 7 Gun with No. 8 Gun being in reserve. The video was five minutes to cover the entire loading of both guns, but edited it down...
by Papi | Dec 16, 2022 | Malta, Swieqi
Greetings family and friends, Yes, quite literally a midnight run to Malta, the island nation just south of Sicily in the Mediterranean. The flight from Madrid was scheduled to land in Malta at 11:55 pm just shy of the midnight hour, but an hour and half delay put me...
by Papi | Dec 7, 2022 | San Sebastian, Spain
Buenas tardes familia y amigos, Indeed, all good things must come to an end. And yes, that would be the raindrops arriving en masse some three weeks ago. Along with the temperature descending into the nippy zone, the teardrops followed shortly. As in the exchange of...
by Papi | Nov 13, 2022 | San Sebastian, Spain
Buenas tardes familia y amigos, Donostia as known in Basque or San Sebastian as know in Spanish, is still a darling some five years after first having made her acquaintance. As an urban beach destination, she still reigns supreme in my not so subtle opinion. Not only...
by Papi | Nov 8, 2022 | Biarritz, France
Bonjour la famille et les amis, It’s someday and the return of On the Flip Side. Allow me to explain. Early on in the 2010 movie, “Knight and Day”, Tom Cruise’s character tells Cameron Diaz’s character that someday is a dangerous word, a...
