Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Having not done any legs of the path for over nine months, suddenly we have done three in the space of six weeks, and we have, finally, reached our home port! We headed out from Reading on what promised to be a beautiful day once again. This time we got the bus from town to …
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So, as promised, we were back on the Thames Path this morning for the Marlow to Henley-on-Thames (henceforth known as Henley) leg. However, it very nearly didn’t happen as when I checked my emails first thing I discovered that there was broken rail between Reading and London and this was causing cancellations and delays. We …
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It’s been a long time since we last did a leg of the Thames Path – nine months in fact. The reasons for this are many and varied but boil down to three things: a busy life, the weather and that we found the last leg boring which somewhat put us off. However, with the …
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We had pretty much a full day before our flight this evening so we got to do the things that we’d wanted to do yesterday but couldn’t because of the strike. REVENGE Speaking of the strike, as we walked back to the hotel last night, the clear-up process had already begun. Workers were pressure washing …
I have to admit that I did consider using a much more provocative image than the one actually shown for today but one of armed riot police might have been offputting! “transport, flights, and ferries” Let’s step back a bit. When we arrived on Wednesday there was a notice pinned inside the tiny lift that …
After yesterday’s success, I did consider getting ChatGPT to write the whole of this blog post, but unsurprisingly, having not actually been there with us, the suggested post read more like a travel guide than anything that I would have written, so this is me again. Today was a bit of a greatest hits tour …
Round about this time of year we try and head off abroad to catch some early sun while the UK is bathed in cold rain. Normally, that would be to Seville, Spain but we fancied a change this year and Seville had problems with flooding earlier in the year so we looked elsewhere. ChatGPT has …
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If you are a regular follower of the blog then you will know that I have been trying to visit all the museums in the Reading area. Now that is pretty much completed I thought it would be useful to highlight where these all are. If I have missed any please let me know in …
How would you react if the sports team you had avidly followed since the late 1970’s sent you an email such as the following? You could probably hear my screams of excitement from where you are when this dropped into my email box! Welcome to Silverstone We had been asked to get to Silverstone car …
London is packed with interesting little places that pop up on my radar occasionally. I have no recollection of how I came across the Mithraeum, but after visiting it at the weekend, I am glad that I did. Roman About The London Mithraeum is, now, underneath the Bloomberg SPACE building. Discovered in 1954 the Mithraeum …
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