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European Journey 1953, Part Three – Hamburg

10th September 2024 Going Postal 0

You climb into an aeroplane at Amsterdam Schiphol and as soon as you are comfortably airborne, you order an excellent dry sherry and nibble at a picnic lunch which you don’t really need. You try [more…]

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A trip to Albania, land of the Eagles – Part Three

18th June 2024 Going Postal 0

Our days passed with a fairly set routine.  Up early – but far too late for running water, so it was a quick sluice down (over the toilet) from the stored water drawn before dawn, [more…]

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A trip to Albania, land of the Eagles – Part Two

4th June 2024 Going Postal 0

The family we stayed with were very hospitable, and as they were being paid something for the inconvenience of us staying there, I am sure we were very welcome!  B and I and our lovely [more…]

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A trip to Albania, land of the Eagles – Part One

21st May 2024 Going Postal 0

In hindsight, it was a major life change. Hard to believe that it is now almost 30 years ago – the summer of 1994.  Leaving a management job with a FTSE 100 British company – [more…]

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“Whatever it takes”, Part Two

24th August 2022 Going Postal 1

The Fascist Boogeyman awakes again The threat of a far-right takeover has been around for at least three decades in Europe and Italy has been one of the best “candidates” for the “beginning of the [more…]

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Tomato Growing In A Pandemic – Mask Wars

13th July 2021 Colin Cross 0

Mask Wars It had to happen and, once it did, the inevitability of the reaction was, strangely enough, inevitable. The mask has taken on a symbolism all its own. On one side of the argument [more…]

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So……….. Why do our Political & Corporatist Classes love Chyyyyna?

8th June 2021 Going Postal 0

In a recent Spectator article, Niall Ferguson worried about the infatuation that the ruling class of the West have for the Chinese system of governance & their clear desire to imitate it. Unfortunately, he fails [more…]

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Family Holiday Torture

3rd August 2020 Going Postal 0

Following on from Novak and Goode’s excellent postcard from Vilnius, I thought I’d share some photos of our trip there in October last year. I’ve been before as my mate married a Lithuanian girl and [more…]

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A Street Corner in Pest

5th May 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Friends tell me that I’m a ‘Master Raconteur.’ At least, I think that’s what they’re telling me. Perhaps it’s an anagram? No matter, I must recount the following. Every tall tale should have its own [more…]

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