Life's about experiences. These are mine.
As time goes on and remember that I have been doing this for over 14 years, it gets increasingly difficult to find new and interesting things to say about places, particularly when they are as small as Cartagena. Therefore, today I am going to talk about pavements. Marbelous Most places we visit have pretty boring …
The Costa-del-sol gets a bad wrap so visiting Malaga made me wonder just what it would be like but I needn’t have worried as, spoiler alert, it was beautiful. We didn’t know much about the town other than it was the birth place of Picasso and had a museum dedicated to him here. We got …
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I’ve never been to Gibraltar before but many of our friends have and the universal feeling seems to be one of the ”meh” so I was interested to find out for myself. A Little Slice of Home It was baking in Gib and we had a long walk to the start of the town. We …
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The boat (or is it a ship?) is today making its only stop outside of Spain, well, unless you consider Gibraltar to not be in Spain, in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. Looking back at these blog entries there is no mention of Lisbon which means that the last time we came here must have …
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After spending all-day yesterday trapped on the boat (or “at sea” as Tui prefer to call it) I was glad to get off today and back onto terra firma. The Hidden Amphitheater Port of call today was Cadiz, somewhere that we haven’t been before so I was looking forward to paying it a visit. After …
We went on our first cruise to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary some 23 years ago now. We didn’t consider ourselves to be natural cruisers but the ship was going places we wanted to go, stopping somewhere new every day. We’d treat it like a floating hotel we said and we did. But we enjoyed …
The last of this years Heritage Open Days was to an exhibition at The Hexagon called, imaginitely enough, The Hexabition : Celebrating 45 years of The Hexagon Theatre. If I’m going to be honest The Hexagon is one of if not the most ugly buildings in Reading and it has quite a few challengers for …
Another day, another Heritage Open Day visit! Today was another building that I had walked past so many times wondering just exactly what was the story behind it. Watlington House is the oldest occupied house in Reading having stood here, on what is now Watlington Street, since 1688. Now surrounded by houses and only a …
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Now here’s somewhere I HAVE been before, although sometimes I wish I hadn’t. At the Royal Berkshire Hospital (RBH) our family has had children born, major and minor operations and various appointments attended. The people there have been great and the building, well, it looks like a hospital. Except that is for what is now …
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It was with some trepidation this morning that I entered the National Portrait Gallery to see an exhibition of photographs taken by Paul McCartney. Would going to a Paul McCartney photographic exhibition be a bit like going to a Linda McCartney pop concert? The photos in question cover a relatively short but important period in …