photographs: people, places & things
It is what it is – pictures from being out and about
Torrs Riverside Park & Millennium Walkway at the Torrs Gorge Located at the town of New Mills the Torrs Gorge is always a decent place to visit. It is genuinely fascinating to see such a mix of geological features and magnificent industrial heritage. I’m not going to write a great deal here as there’s information […]
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Some more wanderings around the antique stores and emporiums My last blog post was written after a visit to a couple of antique emporiums. These were at Blakemere Village and Holden Wood Antiques. Last week we took the opportunity to visit a couple more antique type stores. One of them The Vintage Emporium at Pear […]
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Autumn in Belgium and Germany – words and pictures. Part 3. Moving onto Germany We had really enjoyed our time in Belgium. Namur, Ghent and Dinant had been good places to visit. Added to that the property we had rented had been comfortable and well located for what we wanted to do. On the way […]
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Autumn in Belgium and Germany – words and pictures. Part 2. Accommodation This post (Part 2 of 3) covers our visits to the city of Dinant, on the banks of the Meuse River and then the exceptionally pretty medieval town of Monschau in western Germany. But before that I’ve included a selection of the pictures […]
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Autumn in Belgium and Germany – words and pictures. Part 1. 2024 has been a decent year for trips and travel for us, and we are just back from our last trip together for this year. We spent some time in Belgium and Germany and as you might expect it was quite a contrast to […]
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Royal Air Force Museum in the Midlands, visit to RAF Cosford I wrote fairly recently about a visit to Manchester Barton Aerodrome. I then posted another couple of blogs by way of catching up on things and this is the last of the ‘catch up’ posts before I head off on my next motorcycle trip. […]
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A visit to the unique Reclaimed World in Cotebrook Cheshire I mentioned in my previous post, that I was catching up with updating the blog, this is another of those ‘catch up’ posts. For many years I have either driven, or mostly motorbiked past the entrance to a reclamation yard in Cheshire called Reclaimed World. […]
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🛩️ another enjoyable visit to Manchester’s Barton Aerodrome Regular visitors to the blog will know a visit to Manchester Barton Aerodrome is something that we have done a good few times over the years. I think the last time I posted following a visit to the aerodrome was back in November 2021, which you can […]
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Wandering around the National Trust property – Dunham Massey I think the last time I posted about visiting the National Trust property at Dunham Massey was back in November 2022. Dunham Massey sits between Manchester and the start of Cheshire. This particular National Trust property is probably the one we visit the most, and one […]
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Day trip to the Lakes and a decent wander around Ambleside. In my previous post I mentioned there was just a hint that summer was at last on the way. Without a doubt the recent shift in weather conditions has made it feel like a change for the better. Last week we decided we would […]
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