Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Given we had a bonus stop overnight in Engelszell it seemed rude not to step out and pay it a visit. It was a tiny place with a huge monastery complete with the cliche beer brewing monks. At the other end of the village was a pretty, well tended church and that was it basically. …
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Today we visited Krems, Austria a place too small to have its own entry in the walking app. It appeared to be nothing much more than a village so I was surprised when I looked it up on Wikipedia and found that it has twice the population of Wantage, the place I was born. Where …
We weren’t due to arrive at Bratislava until early in the afternoon and so we spent the morning on the boat watching the world go by. For the most part it was just beautiful tree lined banks with the odd fisherman here and there thrown in for a bit of variety. Then we could see …
Never has there been a more stressful start to a holiday than this. The rumbling on of the pandemic means that there are more hoops to jump through before you can, in our case, set sail to foreign climes. This started a few days before we were due to fly out to Budapest for the …
For the last seven years (2014/5, 2015/6, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21) I have been documenting our attempts to get out between Christmas and the New Year to get some fresh air and burn off gained calories. The very last paragraph of last year’s entry ended thus: The hope was that things might be better …
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More by accident than by design we have ended up visiting three RHS shows in gardens in consequtive weeks and I am not sorry! As I sit here writting this with the rain pouring down outside the window I still marvel at the fact that we managed three days over three weeks in perfect weather. …
I really like Heritage Open Days, the national, annual event that opens up places that you wouldn’t otherwise get access to. In previous years I’ve managed to visit the store room of Reading museum and Reading Abbey before it was reopened. There are always interesting places to visit, exhibitions and talks laid on all giving …
I thought that I hadn’t been to the National Museum of Scotland before but as soon as we were inside I recognised it. From a dark and oppresive entrance it opens out into a vast light and airy space. It is a beautiful place packed with interesting objects. However, it is a right old maze …
We must have been to Edinburgh more than half a dozen times and after so many visits we are still finding new things to see and do. I’m not sure why we have never been to The Elephant House before because it does tick all the boxes for us: Tea & coffee ✓, Caramel Shortbread …
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