photographs: people, places & things
It is what it is – pictures from being out and about
Winter Wassail at Chadkirk Chapel keeping traditions alive My previous post other than a New Years greeting followed our trip to Chester last month. This latest post if a bit different as it was that time of year again when the tradition of the orchard visiting Wassail is brought to life at the Grade II […]
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Wandering around the rows of Chester – December picture post The last time I was in Chester was back in March of this year and it was nice to spend a few hours there again especially in the midst of the festive season. It’s easy enough for us to get to, as it’s less than […]
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Wandering around central Manchester – December picture post Just a very short picture post from a recent wander around central Manchester and the Christmas markets. I wouldn’t really say I’m the biggest fan of the Christmas markets. In some respects, I sort of think when you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all which I know […]
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Pembrokeshire: a picture post from South West Wales – Part 2 We have recently returned from a break in Pembrokeshire in South West Wales. This is the second part of a two part blog post. I wrote in Part 1 how this trip was sort of finishing off our travel for the year, if you […]
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Pembrokeshire: a picture post from South West Wales – Part 1 We are just back from rounding our ‘travel year’ off with a trip to Pembrokeshire in South West Wales. This is Part 1 of a two part blog post. Our last short break in the UK was back in March when we had stayed […]
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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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