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10/12/2023. Scotland
09/12/2023. Newtonmore, Scottish Highlands.We’re home. Our second home. A small stone cottage in a small grey stone village in the Caringorm National Park. Scotland.We lived here for 14 weeks in 2019, pre Covid. Today we drove 300 miles (500km) from Penrith in Cumbria, England to our current domicile. We have five frozen, snowy, relaxing and…
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After Paris…
03 /11/2023Cádiz, Southern SpainFinally off the ship. We missed the last two ports-of-call so have been on board since Paris, five days ago. Dry land, at last.We caught the Hop on Hop off bus for a 1.5 hour tour of the town. The Moorish influence is strong here and the other architecture is more of…
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France
28/10/2023Le Havre and Paris, FranceThe clocks changed overnight. God only knows why as at 8.30 in the morning it’s still black dark. Just the French being difficult, I imagine.We walked past a paddock full of Siemens wind turbine blades on our way to the bus for our tour then waited an hour for those who…
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Re-print
27/10/2024The hotel in Kensington is swarming with Aussies, eating and panicking and just being tourists. The busses to take us to the ship are parked out front and there is pandemonium as to which bus is whose. Hope this ain’t setting the scene for the rest of the trip.While the two hour trip to Southampton…
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Perth, Scotland to London
23/10/2023The train is all but silent though our speed is at 160kmh or 100 mph as we hum across the verdant and autumnal Scottish countryside from Perth to Edinburgh, and then onward to Kings Cross, London.This is the start of our next adventure, taking us from England through the Mediterranean Sea and on to the…
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2023/17/16. Wales day 3
An Abby, a castle, a Neolithic tomb, a cathedral and a palace. What a day!.Wales is spectacular. Sadly, for them, their tourism numbers are very low. Great for us 😊We left the functional (bed, shower, toilet) BNB at eight and hit the road south along really well maintained roads through the valleys between towering Welsh…
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2023/07/14. Wales. Day 1The ships tannoy startled us awake at 4.30 this morning as we drifted into Liverpool port. As it’s high summer here it had been daylight for at least an hour, as it was still light as it was when we went to bed last night at 11pm.Disembarking and cruising through the near deserted streets of Liverpool was easy. Seeing the empty and vandalized buildings through the port area and onto departing roads through the city was not quite as pleasant. Some beautiful historic architecture simply ignored to dereliction. Not my country, not my place to judge.
Crossing the border into Wales we first stopped at at Gweych Castle as it appeared on our left hand side. A gargantuan edifice built overlooking the Irish Sea by some bloody Englishman centuries ago. It was closed. Naturally.We carried on to our destination. Caernarfon Castle close to the Anglesea peninsula.We arrived at Caernarfon (Carnarvan )…
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2023/07/15. Snowdonia, Wales. Day 2
We left Conwy early with only a 34 mile trip planned but included two Neolithic sites and three castles hidden in the Welsh mountains. The plan didn’t include a four hour ride in a 160 year old train line with an impeccably maintained engine and carriages but what can ya do?Our first stop, a Neolithic…
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Kildare and Dublin. Ireland 2023/07/12.
We left Plastic Covered Paddy’s at five am to get to Kildare and to find some Wi-Fi for Lyn to work and thus keep me in the manner I am rapidly becoming accustomed to. An hours drive with a little anxiety mixed in as our tank showed a bees mote off empty.Arriving with two minutes…
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