Life's about experiences. These are mine.
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 …
Cliveden is one of the most popular National Trust sites, partly because of its proximity to large numbers of people and because its a great place with a fascinating history. At the heart of the site is Cliveden House but unlike most National Trust sites you cannot go around the house as it is leased …
Off to the smoke this morning to see The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks which was an exploration of the Apollo moon landings with videos and pictures projected on to huge walls at a place called Lightroom. I thought that it was going to be several connected rooms that you walked through but it …
For our final morning we headed back to the Barbican to visit the Mayflower Museum which covered the pilgrims and their journey to America. The museum was spread over three small floors. The top floor covered the indigenous people whose lives had been irrevocably changed by the arrival of Europeans along with looking at those …
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Last full day in Plymouth and the weather turned to rain overnight. We knew that it was predicted to be drizzly this morning and wet after lunch and so we planned accordingly. We left the hotel and got a bus away from town to the coast where we caught the ferry for a short journey …
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After yesterday’s drizzle is was good to wake up to sunshine. This was good news as we were going to be venturing away from the city today on a visit to the National Trust property Saltram. Having said just a couple of days ago that one of the reasons I liked Reading Buses was because …
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When we told people that we had booked a short break to Plymouth the typical reaction was “Why?” The reason was that we wanted to go somewhere we hadn’t been before and we could reach by direct train from Reading. Plymouth ticked both those boxes. However, as we walked the short distance from the station …
Of the many things I like about Reading the bus service is right up there. There’s a clean, modern fleet with good coverage, an excellent app and they generally run to schedule. It’s interesting that Reading Buses is one of the few buses services that has remained in public ownership being still wholly owned by …
For various reasons we’d delayed doing this next stage of the Thames Path but today we were good to go so it was a bit disappointing to wake to the news that the train we were due to get had been cancelled. No problem we thought, we’ll just get the next one. I checked and …
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