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India’s pride and joy
How many times have you seen an image of one of the world’s great monuments and memorised it for years hoping to see it in all its glory one day? Stonehenge in England, the Parthenon looking down from the Acropolis in Athens, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo to name just three. And once […]
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Manchester rules OK?
After yesterday’s horrific news of the bombing in Manchester and the destruction it wrought to the families of the dead and injured and to the morale of the city’s citizens, I thought it time to revisit ‘up north’. I send my condolences to all concerned. I visited last year after a 20 year absence – […]
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Eating humble pie
When life gives you lemons – go make a pie. For me, travel is 50 per cent about the food. Taste local, mingle in restaurants, explore the great outdoors with a picnic and trawl food markets for perfect produce. But do you ever hanker to have a home-cooked meal? A meal you have cooked yourself? […]
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NYC and Brooklyn’s little surprises
I love New York City. Many have said it before but I REALLY love NYC. I visited 18 months ago for first time in ten years and it’s same, same, and changed as well. The usual suspects on the tourist trail appear. I felt that all-familiar feeling when I strolled through Times Square: ticket touts, […]
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Travel to Spain: Make mine a Michelin
Hola! I’m revisiting this post as Spain is the hot spot top visit in 2020. The restaurant is till flourishing and waitig for your attendance. Travelling across the arid plains of the autonomous region handsomely called Extremadura, in Spain, there are sleepy, medieval towns that have not been pillaged by 21st century tourists. The classic […]
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Flim Flam, thank you mam.
It was a few years ago that I immersed myself in as much Scandi as I could during a 14-day trip that covered the city of Copenhagen, Stockholm, a little ‘unruly’ cruise along the Norwegian Coast from Trondheim to Bergen and a stint in Oslo. I landed in the Viking lands at the end of […]
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Short but sweet visit
Only a day or so to spend here? Dublin always has something special up her sleeve for you – even for a short time. Revisiting Dublin is always a pleasure – a pleasure dimmed a little when you only have a day or two to spare. But as well as the old favourites, look out […] […]
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In praise of cheeses
Not one to generalise, but to me Spain is a pretty macho country. So to meet a revered (and by her male colleagues) female cheese maker was not only a delight but extremely (extrema) educational. After a long lunch that almost overlapped dinner in Trujillo, one of the medieval towns of the Extremadura region, we […]
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Short and sweet
Only a day or so to spend here? Dublin always has something special up her sleeve for you – even for a short time. Revisiting Dublin is always a pleasure – a pleasure dimmed a little when you only have a day or two to spare. But as well as the old favourites, look out […]
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So many places, so little time: isn’t that always the case? Travelling to me covers many facets of movement: aeroplanes, ships, books, movies, conversation an exotic meal, searching through brochures or postcards . . . it’s mostly to change the reality of the moment. I can travel back through time (my time), I can travel […]
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