photographs: people, places & things
It is what it is – pictures from being out and about
Stockport Gin – visiting the home of Stockport Gin (tour) Earlier this year our daughter and son in law bought us a gift …. it was tickets to visit the Stockport Gin Distillery. With other commitments the earliest we could do this and get it booked in the diary was for the end of September […]
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Visit Budapest in September – picture travel post (part 3) I said at the start of this picture post series (in Part 1) that Budapest had been on our list of places to go to for some time. It certainly didn’t disappoint us and it’s fair to say that it exceeded our expectations on many […]
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Visit Budapest in September – picture travel post (part 2) I said in Part 1 that Budapest had been on our list of places to go to for some time. A look through the photographs in the picture gallery will probably go some way to explain why. It really is a quite stunning city. Don’t […]
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Visit Budapest in September – picture travel post (part 1) Budapest had been on our list of places to go to for some time. In fact we had pretty much settled on travelling there soon after returning from our superb trip to Krakow earlier in the year. In between times we had a really enjoyable […]
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Yarrow Valley Country Park – a fine place to visit A few months ago, round about November I think, we visited Yarrow Valley County Park, and it’s fair to say we really enjoyed it. The County Park is managed and run by Chorley Council and spanning some 700 acres it really is a decent size. […]
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FA Cup Semi Final 2023 – it’s a funny old game A couple of days ago saw the first of the two 2023 FA Cup Semi Finals at the national stadium. It’s a decent enough venue to watch football and unless you’ve taken a seat too close to the pitch then views of the game […]
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Things to do near Manchester – visit the city of Chester Last time out, and that I wrote about was after our recent trips to Poland and Scotland. This time it was short visit to Chester, with a group of schoolchildren and so wasn’t really the sort of trip one where I had free rein […]
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Scottish Borders – Things to do Part 4. Jim Clark, Duns & Melrose This is the final blog post in this short series of posts following our very enjoyable visit to the Scottish Borders and our stay in Kelso. In Part 1 I mentioned about our superb visit to the National Museum of Flight and […]
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Scottish Borders – Things to do Part 3 In Part 1 and Part 2 I wrote about the first couple if days of a decent stay in the Scottish Borders when we based ourselves in the Border town of Kelso. Selkirk and Hawick Selkirk is a relatively small town in the Borders, in the south […]
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Visiting the Scottish Borders – Things to do Part 2 Coldingham and St Abbs In Part one of the Scottish Borders post I wrote about our trip to the excellent National Museum of Flight, Cove Beach and Eyemouth. This second post covers some time spent on the coast. On our second full day of the […]
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