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Postcard From the Lake District
INTRODUCTION Well. Finally. I can cross off my list something I have been meaning to do since the morning of 23 June 2016 when I first commented on GP – contribute an article. There have [more…]
Holiday
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Travels of the Unvaxxed – or how we had a Med summer holiday
You don’t need me to tell you that the last two years have been unprecedented. Our normal routines disrupted, jobs destroyed, way of life and freedoms removed all in the name of a bug. While [more…]
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Postcard from Romania – Part Five
Part Four of this Postcard from Romania revealed the joys of First-Class train travel through the ever-changing landscapes of this beautiful country, and a taste of Ursus, Romania’s most popular brew. We’d arrived at our [more…]
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Postcard from Abergavenny
Following on from my Postcard from Monmouth we decided our next ‘big day out’ would be to Abergavenny. A place I’ve probably travelled through in the past but never visited. We crossed the Bristol Channel [more…]
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Cruisin’ with Mr Covid
Cruising usually gets the eye-roll treatment from Puffinry, but Larry the Cat has an interest, so there. Mrs B and I seized the opportunity for a change of scenery. At certain points in your life [more…]
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Postcard from Monmouth
With the prospect of a holiday (foreign or UK) looking increasingly unlikely Mrs Reggie and I decided we would try and fit in a number of day trips to break the tedium of everyday life. [more…]
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You want to own your own caravan. Really!
I am talking about a static caravan, it has wheels, but seldom moves. I am not talking about those mobile camper vans that several Puffins have and look jolly good fun. First thing to say [more…]
20th Century
Postcard From Kanchanaburi
In the now forgotten days when human beings were still allowed to show their faces and set foot out of the house rather than get fat on furlough, soon to become Universal Basic Income followed [more…]
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Another Perfect Weekend
I wrote recently about the perfect weekend I enjoyed with my son when he had to get up North to join the rest of his band to play at the 2017 Workington Festival. Writing it [more…]