photographs: people, places & things
FA Cup Final Wembley 2025 – Crystal Palace v Manchester City Another day out and another trip to Wembley to watch Manchester City play. This time it was against Crystal Palace in the 2025 FA Cup Final. Regular readers will know that producing a blog post after a trip to Wembley has become a regular […]
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FA Cup – semi final 2025 Notts Forest v Manchester City Last weekend it was another trip to Wembley to watch Manchester City play Nottingham Forest in the 2025 FA Cup semi final. A blog post after a trip to Wembley has become a regular event. If looking at people at big events floats your […]
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Heaton Park: close to the city but peaceful at the same time Last time out we had driven over to Whitchurch in Shropshire. On this occasion we made the short 20 minute trip to Heaton Park just a few miles north of the City centre. The park itself is in an area of Manchester known […]
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Manchester – day tripper city centre, backstreets and canals My previous post was quite a contrast to this one. Last time out, I posted about our trip to The Torrs Riverside Park and the Millennium Walkway at New Mills. This time we headed into the central Manchester, a world away from the countryside setting at […]
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Torrs Riverside Park & Millennium Walkway at the Torrs Gorge Located at the town of New Mills the Torrs Gorge is always a decent place to visit. It is genuinely fascinating to see such a mix of geological features and magnificent industrial heritage. I’m not going to write a great deal here as there’s information […]
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A wander around City Centre Manchester and a picture of Nico It’s a short while since my last post on here, which was back in November after we had returned from a really enjoyable trip to Belgium and Germany. This latest short post picks up from the week before last when we headed off to […]
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A visit to Bugsworth canal basin on the Peak Forest canal. The ‘basin’ at Bugsworth is always worth a visit and it’s a place we have been to many times in the past. It seems to have been quite a while since we were last there, so it was good to return there last week. […]
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Visit Lochalsh & the Isle of Skye. Scottish Highlands part 3 In Part 1 of this short series of blog post I wrote about heading off to Scotland to stay in Sallachy, a small hamlet just a few miles away from the Isle of Skye. Part 2 continues my account of our trip and then […]
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Visit Lochalsh & the Isle of Skye. Scottish Highlands part 2 In Part 1 of this short series of blog post I wrote about heading off to Scotland to stay in Sallachy, a small hamlet just a few miles away from the Isle of Skye. This second part of this Scottish Highlands blog post covers […]
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Visit Lochalsh & the Isle of Skye. Scottish Highlands part 1 Over the years my wife and I have holidayed many times in a variety of locations across Scotland – in truth we’ve holidayed there probably more times that we can recall. We were definitely looking forward to this trip, partly because it had been […]
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