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Category: vacations

  • Cyprus: it’s not just lemons

    Cyprus: it’s not just lemons

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    I’ve realised that the Law of Inevitable Disappointment applies to holidays. You go full of expectations and there’s always one that fails to deliver. Cue disappointment! However there is a rider viz there’s always some unexpected experience which more than compensates. And so it was to our week in Cyprus last month. Was it the…

  • Cuba remembered

    Cuba remembered

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    Last night at the Cambridge Camera Club we saw the results of a recent trip to Cuba by Roy Essary (https://shuttershot.co.uk/). It prompted me to go back and look at the photos I’d taken when we visited in 2009. I was using a Sony DSLR A300 in those days and although most of the shots…

  • Rhodes revisited

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    We first went to Rhodes in 1988 when Clare and Charles were seven and five respectively. We booked a two week holiday in a beach hotel with half board and I remember dinners were served school dinners style on long tables. We rented a car, that didn’t seem to break the bank in those days,…

  • Peaks, ports and palazzi: 5 highlights

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    We’ve just come back from a little over a week in north west Italy: Turin and Piemonte, and Genova and its coastline to the east. We didn’t have universally good weather but we didn’t have our programme materially affected and thankfully were spared the heavy rains in Emilio Romanga on 16/17 May 23.

  • Jordan 2023

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    I’ve put together a photobook of my recent holiday in Jordan. I’m slowly working out how to present my photographs with as much impact as possible. I ‘m getting there, but slowly.

  • 5 details which make a difference: Jordan 2023

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    I’ve just come back from 10 days in Jordan. It was a bucket list trip which enabled me to tick off Petra but Jordan is much more than Petra and I’m glad I went.

  • 1966 and all that

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    In 1966 England won the World Cup. It was also a pretty significant year for me. It was the year I started at university and was therefore the time when I stopped living at home. Although I visited many times thereafter I never lived there again. It was the year when I worked full time,…

  • North Norfolk: 5 highlights

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    We’ve just had a week in Thornham, a little to the east of Hunstanton, in North Norfolk. We’d rented a house so that we could spend time with the Bradburies and Charles without the space constraints of our respective homes. I reckon it was a bit of a rite of passage, such ‘whole family’ holidays…

  • Brighton: 5 takeaways

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    I’ve just spent a couple of nights in Brighton. I must say I’m underwhelmed but then maybe what it offers is not what I look for. Anyway these are my five takeaways (four positive and one negative to make up the numbers).

  • GoNW 2022: five highlights

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    We’ve just enjoyed the best part of a week in north and mid Wales. I wouldn’t want to overdo it but it was a reasonably emotional trip for me because I grew up in Wales and visiting places I remember from those days, seeing the Welsh signs and place names and hearing the language spoken…