Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Below the pavements of Central London is a network of tunnels and ducting so large that I’m amazed that the city doesn’t sink into them. In 2017 it was estimated that there were 4 million km of networks and telecommunications lines underneath London. Slightly worrying is that at that point there was no central record …
In 1998 the curtain came down on the satirical TV sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey. Set in the fictitious newsroom of the Globelink News organisation it was recorded close to transmission and included topical jokes based on the week’s news. It made stars of several of its cast most notably Stephen Tompkinson, Neil Pearson and …
Reading holds an annual programme of classical music events called “Classical Music Alive” which includes a variety of events. As part of this we went last night to the Hexagon to see Film Music Gala. This was basically classical music but for those that are afraid of classical music! I’d never seen the Hexagon so …
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For the first time last year, Reading’s Economy and Destination Agency (REDA) (I know it’s a stupid name and they should have stuck to the much more snappy Reading (UK) but I digress) ran the first Reading Walks Festival. It was a great success with many of the walks being sold out quickly so it …
I have spoken of my love of Reading Museum in a previous post and I must make a proper visit and post about the museum in future. Today, however, was about a temporary art exhibition on display in the John Madejski gallery called Artic Mirage. The exhibition displayed the works of Reading-based artist Julian Grater …
Once more we were back in a place that we had visited previously – Kotor, Montenegro. This time, however, we didn’t feel we needed to get up at 06:30 to see the views as we sailed in – as beautiful as they are. We also didn’t feel the need to walk up to the fortress …
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We’ve been to Dubrovnik once before, in 2015, and remember it as an attractive but busy place to visit. Like Split, it apparently has some connection to Game of Thrones which attracts visitors but, again, I still have no idea what that is. We risked incurring the wrath of the local taxi firms by once …
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The last time we did this cruise back in 2015 Zadar wasn’t on the menu and we went to Venice. Now, of course, Venice isn’t as welcoming to tourists and certainly not those arriving by cruise ship so our destination was Zadar in Croatia instead. Coastal Installations The only thing I knew about Zadar was …
We’ve been to Koper before back in 2015 but last time we didn’t linger but got a bus down the coast to nearby Piran. This time we went into the town itself and found two things: firstly, it has a very attractive square with a church and fine fronted castle-y building and secondly, it is …
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The first stop on this cruise is Split, Croatia a pretty city that attracts Game of Thrones devotees for reasons I cannot explain having never seen it. Uber Wars The first challenge was getting from the ship to the town, a relatively short distance but too far for my parents to manage. No problem I …
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