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Postcard From Edinburgh Castle

22nd June 2024 Always Worth Saying 2382 Comments

Mrs AWS and I are enjoying our day trip to Edinburgh. Although we’re used to exploring Princes Street, this time we are swept in a crowd of alighting passengers at Edinburgh’s Waverley station in the [more…]

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

18th June 2024 Going Postal 2433 Comments

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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Postcard From The Scottish Reformation

15th June 2024 Always Worth Saying 2356 Comments

I have a strange sensation in my trousers while strolling Edinburgh’s Royal Mile arm in arm with Mrs AWS. Behave yourselves. Regular readers will be unsurprised to learn my work colleagues pay me not to [more…]

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Postcard From The Royal Mile

8th June 2024 Always Worth Saying 2185 Comments

Having exhausted Edinburgh’s King’s Gallery, myself and Mrs AWS spilled into the street and faced the caravan park, timeshares, swimming pool, shop and public lavatory complex opposite. Hold on a minute. On closer observation, the [more…]

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

4th June 2024 Going Postal 3226 Comments

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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Postcard From The King’s Gallery

1st June 2024 Always Worth Saying 1600 Comments

On our day trip to Edinburgh, Mrs AWS and I de-trained on Waverley’s Platform 9 at 12:17 prompt. While a disappointing first-class breakfast rattled in our tums, we allowed ourselves to be swept out of [more…]

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

21st May 2024 Going Postal 1690 Comments

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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Postcard from Taiwan

11th May 2024 Joe Slater 1686 Comments

The Alishan Forest Railway runs from the coastal plain into the heart of Taiwan’s empty highlands. It was built in 1912 by the Japanese for the purpose of transporting timber from the mountains for the [more…]

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A Scottish Odyssey

8th May 2024 Godfrey Bloom 1657 Comments

The memsahib & I decided on one last Scottish tour of The Highlands, our fifth, before we run down the curtain. I have some Scottish ancestry, my grandmother’s clan was Bruce although a lowland clan [more…]

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