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Category: vacations

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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 Padua and I seem to remember it was early in the year and that the weather was not great.

  • Trulli & Sassi: Mar/Apr 16

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    We’re in the habit of taking a short break somewhere around the Mediterranean in the Spring or Autumn to escape the colder weather back home and at the same time to enjoy a little more of other countries’ cultures, cuisines and histories. This year we jetted off to Puglia and Basilicata down the bottom end…

  • Damn! I love Indonesia

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    We were invited to a wedding, Sat 12 Dec 15. It was Juni’s cousin’s son whom we knew quite well so we had a mind to go. Problem was it was in Surabaya, East Java. Rather a long way to go just for a family event. So we decided to make a holiday of it.

  • Rome wasn’t built in a day …

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    … but it’s best to be seen a day at a time. And just this month we were there for 4 days and most of that time we were out of Rome visiting Italian gardens.

  • Big trip to Oz: March 2015

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    Last month we were in Australia. It wasn’t a big trip by some people’s standards but it was 3 weeks, we haven’t had a 3 week holiday for ages, and it was Australia which is a long way away. We went to see number 1 son who’s a police officer in Fremantle.

  • Plymouth? Ho! 28-30 May 14

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    Wednesday, 28 May 14: the problem with the weather at the moment is that it’s great for growing: plenty of rain, enough warmth and long hours of daylight so everywhere’s green and today’s typical. It’s been raining overnight and it’s an overcast sky but I’m sat in First Class on the 0745 Cambridge to King’s Cross.

  • Indio Feliz, Aquas Calientes; 19 Nov 13

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    Been there, taken the photographs, got the T-shirt and according to that criterion Peru is a multi T-shirt country.