Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Round about this time of year we try and head off abroad to catch some early sun while the UK is bathed in cold rain. Normally, that would be to Seville, Spain but we fancied a change this year and Seville had problems with flooding earlier in the year so we looked elsewhere. ChatGPT has …
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If you are a regular follower of the blog then you will know that I have been trying to visit all the museums in the Reading area. Now that is pretty much completed I thought it would be useful to highlight where these all are. If I have missed any please let me know in …
How would you react if the sports team you had avidly followed since the late 1970’s sent you an email such as the following? You could probably hear my screams of excitement from where you are when this dropped into my email box! Welcome to Silverstone We had been asked to get to Silverstone car …
London is packed with interesting little places that pop up on my radar occasionally. I have no recollection of how I came across the Mithraeum, but after visiting it at the weekend, I am glad that I did. Roman About The London Mithraeum is, now, underneath the Bloomberg SPACE building. Discovered in 1954 the Mithraeum …
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I’d been planning to visit the Thames Valley Police Museum for quite a while, but it is only open from 10 a.m. to midday on a Wednesday, and that always seemed to clash with something else. In the end, I blocked out the time in my diary so I could go and today was the …
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As I continue to tick off the museums of Reading today I visited one that is only open a couple of times a month – The Royal Berkshire Medical Museum and Archive. I’ve known of its existance for quite a while but have only just got around to visiting and they make it challenging for …
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I was back up to London today where I was headed to the Design Museum, somewhere I had not been previously. My first thoughts on arrival were that I didn’t think much of the design of the place itself, which seemed pretty ordinary, but there clearly had been quite a bit of design thought gone …
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As I’ve said before I love London. It’s packed with interesting places, people, art and architecture and a great place to visit for a day but couldn’t live there. I’m happy to explore the usual haunts that the city is famous for but equally like to find places a little more unusual hence today’s visit …
For a while now I have been trying to get round all the museums in the Reading area and I realised that I hadn’t actually been and done a proper viewing at Reading Museum itself. I corrected that today with a long wander around its galleries. Outside The museum is housed within the Reading Town …
As I suggested in my last post on the murals of Bristol, those of Reading are a much more sober and corporate affair. In fact all three of the murals I am highlighting here have been commisioned by Reading Borough Council. Nobody is going to be painting their house with a night sky theme here. …