FA Cup – semi final 2025 Notts Forest v Manchester City

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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Manchester – day tripper city centre, backstreets and canals

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

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

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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Visit Lochalsh & the Isle of Skye. Scottish Highlands part 1

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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