photographs: people, places & things
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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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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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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Scottish Borders – Things to do Part 3 In Part 1 and Part 2 I wrote about the first couple if days of a decent stay in the Scottish Borders when we based ourselves in the Border town of Kelso. Selkirk and Hawick Selkirk is a relatively small town in the Borders, in the south […]
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Visiting the Scottish Borders – Things to do Part 2 Coldingham and St Abbs In Part one of the Scottish Borders post I wrote about our trip to the excellent National Museum of Flight, Cove Beach and Eyemouth. This second post covers some time spent on the coast. On our second full day of the […]
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Scottish Borders – Things to do Part 1 We were recently in Krakow for a short break, and within a couple of weeks of returning from our Polish trip we were off again. This time to somewhere quite different as we had booked accommodation in the Scottish Borders, and we headed north to spend a […]
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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 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 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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