Life's about experiences. These are mine.
This holiday seems to have been a long time coming, mainly because we booked it so long ago. I mean a long, long time ago. More than a year ago. So the build up has been excruciatingly long. Anyway, we are on our way finally. First stop is Bristol where the flight leaves from. I’ve …
A couple of years ago we went to Progress Theatre’s annual Writefest. This is an evening of seven short plays written and performed by local and up-and-coming actors. As you can imagine there is real mixed bag of plays on offer and the quality and therefore the enjoyability is also variable. This time out the …
There’s been a bit of a spate of visits to transport museums over the last twelve months – some declared others not – and I think I am beginning to get a bit of a reputation as a transport nerd. This latest post won’t do anything to dispel that myth. There is a local museum …
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I alluded to my special dietary requirements in yesterday’s post. It is pretty restrictive (no diary, no gluten, no corn, no onions, no garlic, no processed foods, no avocados the list is endless). This makes finding places to eat when out and about challenging and especially for breakfast it seems. At home I eat a …
I have lost count of the number of times that we have visited Amsterdam but it must be six at the very least. Yet we keep coming back and each time we do it still seems as fresh and as vibrant as the first time we visited. We are back again this weekend and had …
Sometime before Concorde became operational in 1976 a guy down our road invited us as a family to go and see it at RAF Fairford. I remember vividly standing underneath this beautiful bird and going up and kicking its tyres! I’m told we were also able to go inside but I don’t remember this. Of …
Three years ago we went to the Chelsea Flower Show because it was a huge event and was on my bucket list. Now we were back again partly because we enjoyed it so much last time and now we’re even older and more into gardening than before so were looking for ideas. I thought that …
As usual with our trips I take many more photos than I can upload while I am away. I have now uploaded the best of the many I have taken to my Flickr account but you can also see them below. Click on the thumbnail to expand. New York Washington
The last day of a holiday is always sad because you’ve got to pack, get a flight home, go back to work etc. but as our flight wasn’t until the evening we had pretty much a full day left. Hurrah! We chose to spend that time close to the hotel exploring Georgetown. If Washington DC …
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Today we hit the other end of the Mall taking the Circulator down to Union station as our start point. The station is a destination in itself irrespective of whether you are taking the train. It has shops, a food hall, a beautiful entrance hall and even some trains. We walked out from the station …
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