photographs: people, places & things
Happiness in the Highlands, Orkney and the east coast Scotland in October is straightforward enough. You can reasonably expect fewer tourists, shorter days, and plenty of damp weather. I suppose it’s fair to say you should almost always prepare for damp weather whatever time of year you visit Scotland. What I do get every time […]
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Coming soon to the rainycity blog… Visit Scotland epic castles, coasts and driving Routes. Words and pictures from a magnificent couple of weeks in the Scottish highlands, the West Coast, Orkney before finishing off on the east coast. The trip was altogether different from the last trip I wrote about, when we visited Liverpool and […]
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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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