Life's about experiences. These are mine.
It is a Thompson truism that somewhere on a trip a public building we want to see will be shrouded in scaffolding. In this trip it was the church at Stowe which was a shame as it is included in pretty much every picture of the town, although it was only the bottom half of …
Today, as we travelled from the Berkshires to the Green Mountains, it was a real taste of home. As we passed through places with names such as Manchester, Wallingford, Shrewsbury, and Rutland, none of them looked anything like their UK namesakes, but maybe it reminded the founders of home. We came to New England for …
It was time to say goodbye to Boston this morning and head out into rural New England. That meant going back to the airport to collect our hire car, a very ugly Ford Bronco. Given that we were here to see the autumn colours (sorry, “fall”), there didn’t seem to be much point travelling by …
After a day with fabulous weather yesterday, today was the complete opposite. During the day, it was either raining or raining heavily. However, we’d planned ahead and already decided that today we’d do things that were mainly indoors, starting with… Fenway Park I have to admit that I am not much of a sports fan, …
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When you’re jet-lagged and know that you are going to have difficulty sleeping and most likely waking up early, the last thing you want is to be woken by an alarm in your room. But this is exactly what happened to us just after midnight. Unusually this wasn’t a tonal allarm but spoken and rather …
This is the holiday that we were supposed to be taking before it got postponed by Covid, and then when we were freed from those restrictions, we did go to the US again but went to the West Coast instead. So, this holiday to see New England in the Fall has been a long time …
I have many and varied interests but when it comes to sport I have only one: motorsport. More specifically F1 and I really only have eyes for the Williams Racing team. So when I saw that there was an F1 Exhibition coming to London and organised by F1 itself I booked up. The exhibition was …
It’s time for the annual Heritage Open Days. I found this year that it was more difficult to find things to attend because many on the local list I have done before. I think that in future I may need to travel further afield. Anyway, I have booked onto a couple for this year starting …
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The Proms or more accurately as it is now known “BBC Proms” is an institution and something that I’ve had on my bucket list for quite a while. As it says in Wikipedia most people if asked would cite The Last Night as their view of the Proms. This appears to me to be a …
Our last full day in Edinburgh was the usual frenetic activities followed by and a couple of hours of wondering what to do. It would be hard to fill your day completely and knackering too so you are left with pockets of time sat in coffee shops waiting to move on. It is also quite …
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