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Language School

Posted by on May 25, 2018 in Blog, Elsewhere, Food, Slider Blogs | 2 comments

Immersion or submersion? There was, at times, a feeling of drowning.  Not knowing, not having any idea of what the ?.. was going on....

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Moments in Madrid

Posted by on May 19, 2018 in Blog, Elsewhere, Food, Slider Blogs | Comments Off on Moments in Madrid

Is it possible to ‘do a city’ in four days? The Lonely Planet told me I was practically a local if I stayed that long.  Certainly it...

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Four Towns in Andalusia

Posted by on Mar 5, 2018 in Blog, Elsewhere, Food, Slider Blogs | Comments Off on Four Towns in Andalusia

I’m learning Spanish, or trying at least. So I went to Spain.  A while ago now. Back in Early December just as winter was setting...

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Tour of Mont Blanc

Posted by on Sep 9, 2017 in Blog, Elsewhere, Slider Blogs, Walking | 2 comments

The TMB has been trod my many before me and many now have blogged about it but it is impossible for me not to add a few words and even...

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Tour of Mont Blanc – An Intro

Posted by on Aug 27, 2017 in Blog, Other Places, Walking | Comments Off on Tour of Mont Blanc – An Intro

There are too many superlatives to make my trip to Mont Blanc a ‘quick fix’. So I’m going to start by posting just a sample of the many...

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Another Day in Nidderdale

Posted by on Jul 23, 2017 in Blog, Cumbria, UK, Walking | Comments Off on Another Day in Nidderdale

Despite stair-rods of rain battering the windows of my ‘weekend retreat’, on Greenhow hill, at dawn, it eventually drifted away to clear...

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