Life's about experiences. These are mine.
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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Washington came as refreshing change after New York. I really enjoyed the days we spent in NYC but I also found it claustrophobic. Washington on the other hand feels fresh and clean. The roads are wide, there are plenty of green spaces and it seems much less regimented. This, our first day here, was spent …
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There are plenty of iconic sights in New York that people can recite without thinking but it is always good to find something a little bit unusual to do on a trip and today’s walk along the High Line was certainly that. The High Line is a stretch of disused railway that ran above the …
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Today we had earmarked for Central Park and nothing else. It was interesting to have seen it from the top of the Rockefeller Center yesterday. It is a very obvious rectangle that is “missing” from the otherwise jam packed city buildings. A green oasis in the middle of so much grey. In what is becoming …
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