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Nostalgia Album, Almeria to Barcelona

6th August 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Valencia After last time’s run in the general direction of home, from Gibraltar to Almeria, we pick up the pace further along the Spanish Mediterranean coast at Valencia. With no photos of the intervening Costa [more…]

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Nostalia Album, Heading Home

30th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Malaga to Motril and Beyond Having made an heroic 1952 journey from Carlisle to Gibraltar in a Ford 8 in order to visit Aunt Lil, Uncle Rob and cousin Anne, my father and grandparents set [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Joining The Team

23rd July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

November 1963 Last week I invited Puffins to guess, in unread comments below the unread article, what course my father’s cousin Anne may have plotted when, aged only 26, she lost both of her parents [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, A New Posting

16th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Fair Winds And a Following Sea This time on Nostalgia Album we are enjoying a new posting to a place where the White Ensign no longer flies. If in last week’s unread comments below the [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Seville

9th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Las Dos Infantas Elegantes Last time on Nostalia Album we left my father’s cousin, Anne, beaming on the quarry spoil of a Gibraltar beach. She was 15 and thriving in the crown colony, benefitting from [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Gibraltar Childhood

2nd July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

At first glance, it would seem unlikely to drive all the way from Carlisle to Gibraltar just to take a photograph of a filling station. Albeit an interesting one which was, as we saw last [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Journey’s End

25th June 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

As every schoolboy knows, off the southern coast of the province of Cadiz the 3rd August 1704 ended briskly as Sir George Rooke’s fleet bombarded the Spanish isthmus of Gibraltar. The following morning, 1,900 English [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Nineteen

18th June 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Parador Torremolinos As we near journey’s end (can Puffins tell where we’re going to yet and why?), the final photo from the previous edition of Nostalgia Album is reproduced below. Depicted, is an unprepossessing single-story [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Eighteen

11th June 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Reaching The Coast Standing beside the Mediterranean after a monster journey from Carlisle at the other end of the European continent, we spy a railway line. The year is 1952, the location is near Málaga [more…]

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