photographs: people, places & things
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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City centre Manchester and visiting the Castlefield Viaduct. Manchester really is a great city to visit, whether it’s to see something specific or just to wander round. The last time I posted was back in December when we had taken the bus into the centre and enjoyed a wander and a bite to eat (you […]
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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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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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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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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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