Hard Rock Punta Cana

My company is having their 30th anniversary this year (!) and to celebrate flew everyone to the Dominican Republic for four nights at the all-inclusive Hard Rock hotel/casino … it’s quite a nice place with spacious rooms but it’s huge and stupidly busy in the evenings (multiple hour waits for dinner at many locations!). It’s also on the Atlantic side of the island and never during the time we were there was it safe to go in the ocean (red-flagged constantly).

Here’s a selection of photos I took – one morning I walked the entire perimeter (more than 1-1/2 miles) taking photos to show what it’s like; there’s also some views of my room, and the mini golf area (which has a LOT of water traps!)

And finally (thanks, Amy), a group photo of [almost] all the PGT folks at the beach (where we never got in the ocean because it was always too rough!):

40 years at the beach

Well, not really … but Apple Photo Memories recently offered up a selection of close-to-beach photos, and I then took the idea to it’s extreme.

The photos here go back as far as a family holiday to Brixham, Devon in England in the 1970s, past our honeymoon in the Canary Islands, and to more recent locations including Gloucester and Rockport where we used to live …