Life's about experiences. These are mine.
DAY 2 – San Francicso (0 miles driven, 10.99 miles walked) California has been struggling with the weather over the last few months suffering drought conditions and a number of fires. It was therefore somewhat ironic that today has been pretty wet. Not just a bit of drizzle but properly hammering it down. Some roads …
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DAY 1 – London to San Francicso (5368 miles flown, 4.31 miles walked) It’s been a long time coming but we are finally on our way back to the US! I’ve always been an anxious traveller worrying about whether I have the right things with me before we go. Helen says, although I am not …
We are lucky that Reading is so well served with transport links. It is particularly easy to get to today’s destination, Oxford, by train within 20 minutes. The train today was surprisingly busy and, unfortunately, I had got on the carriage with the bloke with the very loud voice. He was telling everyone, whether they …
This is a cross post from my dedicated Williams fan site, The Williams Database. On the original post you can see a number of pictures from the day. By my reckoning I have been to the museum at Williams seven times and I never tire (should that be tyre😂) of going there. I was particularly …
This morning’s Heritage Open Day visit almost didn’t happen for me when my bus in to town was late (unusually very late. Most Reading Buses are incredibly punctual). I emailed to say that I was going to be delayed and ran from the bus stop to the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) where we …
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We love Wisley and are regular visitors. Every time we go back there is something new to see as the colours change over the seasons. It is a place for relaxation, I find it easy to switch off there, and inspiration for my own garden. So we were looking forward to our visit today especially …
Once again it is time for the Heritage Open Days, an annual celibration of the history and cluture of England where places that might not normally be open to the public throw open their doors. In previous years I have been around the Reading Abbey, behind the scenes at the Reading Museum stores and the …
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After a couple of days of doing adult oriented events today was really about keeping the active toddler busy. Turns out that a long walk to the activity centre followed by roller skating, then football and then swimming in the afternoon is enough to wear out everyone in the party and not just a three …
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While the children were off doing childreny things this morning myself and my younger son again went on another adult activity. Before coming here we both went through the list of activities available and came up with a shortlist from which we picked two things that we were interested in doing. Yesterday we did archery …
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In order to do something that wasn’t aimed at a three year old a couple of us went to the Target Centre this morning to do archery. The Target Centre was a reasonable distance from the lodge and looking at the map didn’t seem possible to reach by bike. This was because it was at …
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