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Dundee
We rounded off the holiday with quick visit to Maureen’s hometown of Dundee. This was mainly to visit the new V&A design museum that we...
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Jul 2, 20233 min read
Stirling: the cradle of Scottish history
These last stops are mainly designed to retrace the footsteps of some Scottish history based on some of the iconic names from the past –...
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Jun 27, 20232 min read
Hawes: Heart of the Dales
Having picked up a car from Birmingham the remaining stops in our grand tour will be short and sweet, and the aim is to make the blog...
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Jun 24, 20234 min read
Ashes to Ashes
Beneath the Raglan Stand at Birmingham’s Edgbaston Stadium is a small cricket museum packed with balls that took historic wickets and...
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Jun 22, 20232 min read
Birmingham: Welcome to the Jungle
We came to Birmingham for the cricket. It would be unfair to disparage a city on the basis of experiencing it from a fifth floor...
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Jun 20, 20232 min read
Cheltenham: Gateway to the Cotswolds
I love trains, especially when they run as scheduled. Outside of France this is a reasonably common occurrence. And of all train types I...
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Jun 13, 20233 min read
Toulouse: La Ville Rose
Due to a national day of strike action on 06 June we dropped Montpellier for the night of the 5th and took the train to Toulouse that...
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Jun 9, 20233 min read
Sanary-sur-Mer: Life on the Med
France as a rule is a laid-back country where they like their two-hour lubricated lunches and take violence to the streets against...
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Jun 3, 20233 min read
Annecy: Venice of the Alps
We’ve seen a fair bit of France over what is now four visits, never going over old ground. With a country as vast and varied as France,...
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May 31, 20232 min read
Brussels: sometimes your feet are the best search engines
We ditched Paris from our original itinerary due to the unrest over pension reform, and subbed-in Brussels and Geneva - strategic choices...
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May 27, 20233 min read
Amsterdam: Vermeer, Van Gogh, and Velocipedes
In episode 6 of season 3 of the brilliant football-based drama Ted Lasso [spoiler alert], a main character, Rebecca, is knocked off a...
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May 12, 20231 min read
How it Happened
Our last big trip in 2018 was meant to be literally that – the last. Then I fluked tickets for the 2019 Ashes test at Lord’s and so...
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