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Nostalgia Album, Lourdes

17th September 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Unlike my father, grandparents and daughter, I’ve never been to Lourdes. Given the proliferation of places of worship that have sprung up around the Pyrenean town since the visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Admired From Nevers to Carlisle

10th September 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Admired from Nevers to Carlisle As my grandfather’s Ford 8 made its intrepid conquest of the 7,000ft high Pyrenean pass of Col de Tourmalet during the return trip from Gibraltar to Carlisle, we fell upon [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Nature’s Colosseum

3rd September 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Descending Tourmalet Having conquered the 7,000ft Col du Tourmalet for England, our pugnacious Ford 8 trundles down the other side nonchalantly taking for granted the now over-familiar spectacle of Pyerean mountain passes. The cycling data [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Conquering The Long Mountain

27th August 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Col d’Aspin Last time on Nostalgia Album the heroic Ford 8, with a hiccup or two, commenced an odd zig-zag route across the Pyrenees as part of my father and grandparent’s 1952 return journey from [more…]

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Postcard From November, Part 3

14th April 2021 Going Postal 0

Happy Birthday to Me My birthday is November 4th and as a child my main memory of it was always of my parents laying on a party for my friends who all turned up bearing [more…]

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