Category: Photography

Travel 2024 – North Coast 500 – Day 8 (Around Thurso)

Saturday 5th October, 2024 – Thurso, Ulbster, Lybster, Wick, Duncansby Head, Dunnet Head Distance driven: 68.0 milesTime at the wheel: 1 hour 36 minutesHeiland coos spotted: 0 (Seriously? Are they hiding from us?) Saturday morning saw a latish start, partly down to my insistence on completing Thurso parkrun while I had the opportunity, what with…

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Travel 2024 – North Coast 500 – Day 5 (Inverness to Dornoch) 

Wednesday 2nd October, 2024 – Inverness, Fortrose, Chanonry Point, Rosemarkie, Cromarty, Dornoch  Distance driven: 78.0 milesTime at the wheel: 1 hour 50 minutesHeiland coos spotted: 0 We were back on a highish mileage day, made more so because the Cromarty-Nigg ferry does not run after September 30th so we’d missed it by a day, a…

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Travel 2019 – Leicestershire Weekend, Day 1, Leicester

Saturday, 12th October 2019 – Leicester I realise Leicester may not be your obvious first choice when considering where to go in the UK, but bear with me. Actually if you try to get any tourist information in advance, you could be forgiven for thinking Leicester’s tourist information office don’t think it is either, between…

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Travel 2019 – Alsace and Baden, Day 10, Mulhouse

Sunday, 22nd September 2019 – Mulhouse I started the morning with a run around the very quiet streets surrounding the apartment. The weather was still fine and sunny, despite forecasts suggesting that was about to change (it didn’t) and discovered both the hideous concrete monstrosity that is the nearby church, and also the whereabouts of…

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Events 2018/2019 – New Year

Monday, 31st December 2018/Tuesday, 1st January 2019 – Events, New Year’s Day A very happy and prosperous new year to you all!    

Events 2018 – Christmas

Tuesday, December 25th 2018 – Christmas If you are reading this, then I would like to wish you a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with some Christmas lights from London!

Travel 2018 – Monaco, Day 2

Saturday, February 17th 2018 – Monaco A late start was called for after a good night’s sleep. We aimed for a 10:00am breakfast, missed by 15 minutes, and finally got our act into gear to go out a little after 11. We’d decided that, despite the fact that we pretty much know Monte Carlo like…

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Food/Travel 2017 – Krakow, Day 6

Tuesday December 5th – Day 6, Krakow Tuesday was our last day and so after breakfast we tidied up the apartment, dropped off the keys and hauled our suitcases to the offices of the travel company who would be responsible for taking us to the airport in the evening. We were there just before 09:00…

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