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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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American Journey 1952, Part Three – Washington

28th May 2024 Going Postal 2828 Comments

John Doe is Asking Awkward Questions The last thing I expected to pick up in this capital city of a great Republic (“the greatest Republic on God’s Footstool,” as I heard a Senator from Illinois [more…]

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Postcard From Edinburgh

25th May 2024 Always Worth Saying 1900 Comments

Gentleman and lady travellers of a certain age may be divided into two tribes: Princess or Market. I’ve always been a Princess man. Let me explain. Arrival at Edinburgh Waverley always drew me up the [more…]

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American Journey 1952, Part Two – Providence

21st May 2024 Going Postal 2191 Comments

Over the main entrance of Providence City Hall is a bust of one Roger Williams, the founder of this city. You can see another representation of him in Roger Williams Park, where yesterday the youth [more…]

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American Journey 1952, New York

26th March 2024 Going Postal 2538 Comments

Of course, it’s impossible to do justice to New York in a few hundred words. Its like saying the Pacific is deep or that Everest is high or that Helen of Troy was a pretty [more…]

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To Wawa and Beyond

6th March 2024 Going Postal 1981 Comments

The rooster started crowing at 3 am, which then set the dogs off. The barking went on for a while then a motorbike without a silencer went roaring past. It must have been 3-45am when [more…]

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The Lighthouse of The Pacific

24th February 2024 Always Worth Saying 1934 Comments

Leaving the Pan-American highway and heading west beyond the urban sprawl of second city Santa Ana, we follow the route of the El Salvador Railway Company’s Ahuachapan branch line which we discovered last time. Nothing [more…]

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Report From Israel, 1957 – Part Six

30th January 2024 Going Postal 2219 Comments

In 1957 my uncle, John Alldridge visited Israel for the Birmingham Mail. This is the last of his reports. – Jerry F When an Israeli defines a civilian as a soldier on leave for eleven [more…]

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Postcard from Iceland

27th January 2024 Always Worth Saying 1678 Comments

A fat lot of help the Sultan of Oman was. About as much use as a chocolate teapot in the Al Hararis Plain during the hottest hour of an Omani desert day. Creepy sleepy sniffy [more…]

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