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  • Indian Triangle

    Indian Triangle

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    Some time back I did a post on ‘5 significant holidays’. I’m not sure if my recent trip to the Golden Triangle in India would count as significant but it was truly epic.

  • what we did that summer …

    what we did that summer …

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    Earlier this month the Guardian’s travel supplement ran a feature with ten people remembering their ‘most memorable’ holidays. Here’s my memory of my first independent holiday ‘Four in a Mini to the South of France‘ as featured in my earlier post ‘Five significant holidays’. Click here to read it.

  • OZ17: five takeaways

    OZ17: five takeaways

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    We’ve just come back from Australia where we’ve enjoyed a three week vacation. It was our second and I’ve been there several times on business as well. But as always when you visit a place you still see something new or you see something in a different light or you’re just simply reminded of what…

  • Tour guides I have loved and not …

    Tour guides I have loved and not …

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    We’ve only been taking package tours since about 1998 when we went with Travel Editions to Hidden Italy. We were based in Ravenna and I seem to remember it was early in the year and that the weather was not great.

  • Five significant holidays

    Five significant holidays

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    We’re off on holiday shortly and it’s going to be a big one. I’ve got myself a significant birthday so we’re off to Australia (again) via Hong Kong for the best part of 4 weeks with time in Melbourne and Adelaide before taking the train to Perth and a couple of weeks in WA.

  • 5 places I haven’t visited yet

    5 places I haven’t visited yet

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    The waitress in the restaurant the other night asked me where I was from. I suggested she told me first which she did. She was from Bulgaria. In addition to waiting on tables she was also studying psychology at Glasgow U but that’s not the point of this blog.

  • Oct 16: photo of the month

    Oct 16: photo of the month

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    Oops this is a bit late. Not sure why, no good reasons. This is Ragussa in Sicily on our walk down to the old town on the last evening of our recent holiday. I took this with my Sony SLT-A58 1/30th at f4. No post-processing.

  • 5 memorable railway journeys

    5 memorable railway journeys

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    It seems like a truism that everybody likes trains. Maybe not commuter type trains but long distance ones that take you on a journey. For some reason people don’t really like buses; maybe it’s because buses get stuck in traffic.

  • 3 Days in Durham

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    This is the excerpt for your very first post.

  • 2015: generally exceptional …

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    Staying with the precedent set for 2013 and continued for 2014 here are my reflections of 2015. In many respects it’s been an exceptional year and although there has been some sadness there hasn’t been the uptick that you might have expected as my friends, colleagues and relations all get older.