photographs: people, places & things
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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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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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 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 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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Wembley scenes Manchester City v Liverpool A game of football between the two leading teams in the country saw around 73,000 people head for Wembley to watch the semi final of the FA Cup. Wembley scenes Manchester City v Liverpool is a picture post with images from outside the stadium before the game. The peoples […]
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Anglesey people This post follows on from a three part series of earlier blog posts featuring a visit to Anglesey and it’s stunning coastline. You can find the link to the first in that series here Part 1 About this post It’s not much more than a set of random black and white images of […]
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About this blog post With just over a week to go before the next stage of lockdown restrictions are eased and shops and non essential retailers begin to open their doors, my wife and I decided that we would take a morning drive into central Manchester to take a look around before the crowds return. […]
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The Northern Lights. My understanding of the term Aurora Borealis means a pattern of differently coloured lights that are sometimes seen in the night sky. After looking at some pictures snapped on a phone from the inside of a car on a typical wet northern night in Blackpool it struck me that the lights I […]
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