Visiting the Scottish Borders

Visiting the Scottish Borders Coming soon – a series of posts following our recent trip to the Scottish Borders … we had a terrific time but it was even colder than our recent trip to Poland! Check back soon Don’t forget to check back soon and find out about this gem of a museum in […]

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Visit Krakow & the Old Town – Part 4

Visit Krakow & the Old Town – Part 4 This is the fourth and final blog post in the ‘Visit Krakow’ series. You can check out earlier posts using these links: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 After fascinating visits to Schindlers Factory and the Salt Mines and then the sobering visit to Auschwitz, […]

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Visit Krakow & Auschwitz – Part 3

Visit Krakow & Auschwitz – Part 3 Previous posts (Part 1 and Part 2) in this short series that follows our trip to Poland included plenty of pictures showing the beauty of Krakow, the magnificence of the salt mines and the other places that we wandered to and visited. I mentioned in Part 1 that […]

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Visit Krakow & the Old Town – Part 2

Visit Krakow & the Old Town – Part 2 Part 1 of the Visit Krakow Blog posts mentioned a couple of reasons why we decided to visit this Polish town. Part 1 also includes picture galleries from our wandering around the Old Town and our trip to Oskar Schindlers factory. I suspect most folk who […]

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Visit Krakow & the Old Town – Part 1

Visit Krakow & the Old Town – Part 1 Our last trip was a short while ago in October. At that time we spent a terrific couple of weeks travelling in Northern and Southern Ireland, and if you missed that post you can check it out here. This series of posts follows our recent trip […]

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Autumn Dunham Massey National Trust

Autumn Dunham Massey National Trust I don’t think we have ever been to Dunham Massey and been disappointed with our visit. It’s a terrific National Trust property located close to Altrincham in Greater Manchester. Last time we were there was a few months ago in July. Parkland, gardens and more Walking at Dunham is a […]

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An enjoyable Autumn walk at Reddish Vale Country Park

An enjoyable Autumn walk at Reddish Vale Country Park One of our local parks is the Country Park at Reddish Vale.  For one reason or another it’s been a few months since we were last there  but we remedied that earlier in the week. It’s near enough to where we live and in fact is […]

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Holiday in Ireland/Tour Ireland by car – (Part 5)

Holiday in Ireland/Tour Ireland by car – (Part 5) In part Part 4 of this Ireland blog set, I wrote about our time in Kenmare and visits that included Gleninchaquin Park, the Healy Pass, Dingle and Clogher Strand on the Dingle Peninsular. This post sees us get to the end of our trip to Ireland […]

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Holiday in Ireland/Tour Ireland by car – (Part 4)

Holiday in Ireland/Tour Ireland by car – (Part 4) In Part 3 I wrote about our time in Donegal and our journey down to Kenmare in County Kerry. Kenmare wasn’t completely new to me as I been there earlier in the year when I had travelled by motorcycle and stayed in the town for a […]

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Crisp autumn morning along the canal

Crisp autumn morning along the canal The last couple of posts on here have been from our recent trip to Ireland and with one thing and another we’ve pretty busy since we came back. I’m hoping to get the Ireland set finished and posted up by the end of next week, but in the meantime […]

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