Life's about experiences. These are mine.
When you think of Spain what do you think of? Brits holidaying on the Costa del Sol, possibly? Barcelona and Real Madrid, perhaps? Basque separatists, maybe? Sunshine, definitely! So, it came as a bit of a shock this morning on arrival at the port of Gexto to see low grey cloud and drizzle. Frank Gehry …
The days at sea on a cruise are always very lazy days with little to do. This year I’d decided that to counter that I’d take part in a couple of activities that were likely to be running based on past trips. Behind the Scenes We’ve been on a number of cruises before where they …
I suspect that the films of Wes Anderson are a bit of an acquired taste— a bit like Marmite. I find them fascinating as much for their visual appeal as their storylines, but I can imagine that others would find that not to their liking. Like other “cult” directors Anderson has been given the Design …
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On the hottest day of the year so far, I made my way up to London to pay a visit behind the scenes at Shakespeare’s Globe on an organised tour. Not One, Not Two but Three This isn’t, in fact, the first Globe (how could it be?), but the third theatre on the banks of …
I forgot to post this when I posted about the walk itself but I thought it was still worth showing.
It’s been a long time since we have done a leg of the Thames Path. Too long in fact. It was eight months ago that we did the last leg ending in Shillingford and made the bold statement that we would aim to be in Oxford by the end of the year. What happened? Life …
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It’s the time of year once again for the Reading Walks Festival. This year we are booked on to four walks which was the most that interested us and that we could make. There is some repitition from previous years and walks that we had already done which limited our choices. Two Rivers (and a …
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A while back I had the opportunity to visit the Mini factory in Oxford. Actually it isn’t a “factory” but a “plant” in the same way it’s no longer an “engine” but an “ICE” and a “chassis” is a “platform” but I digress. Today I had the chance to visit the Morgan Motor Company factory …
I said in yesterday’s post that I was able to cross off not one but two items from my bucket list. This was because we managed to squeeze in a trip to the British Library on our way back from Highgate Cemetery. The British Library is the largest of its kind in the world holding …
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Having so recently talked about my bucket list it’s nice to report that I have ticked another one off the list (actually it was two but that’s a story for another day). This time it was Highgate Cemetery, somewhere that has long been on the list. Margaret Makes It Highgate was opened 1837 when the …