Category: World travel
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Airport beach
When we first picked Phuket as the airport to fly into, our initial plans were a bit different…fly in, 2 nights in town and then hop over to the islands. At that time (July) we booked the amazing Woo hotel for 40 quid a night. Steal. [we later ended up completely screwing it up by…
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Koh Mook, where the Universe smiles on you
The journey here was deeply inauspicious, with a hugely long wait in Koh Lanta and a bit of general confusion about schedules, lots of stops, chaos and melee, along with a particularly packed speedboat. At least the seas were mellow. This was, however, a very long passage. For future reference, if you’re coming to islands…
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Off again for winter sun…
Yes, yes, I know, Greta won’t be impressed. But come on, winter these days is especially bleak, with the combination of wall-to-wall rain and none of the things that make winter fun like, dare I mention it, snow? Ironically however, the February week that preceded our escape was one of the best for a while,…
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Wir Sind Berlinern
And so it was time for another jaunt across the water. No particular detailed thought process here, just another very decent BA deal from Heathrow to Berlin, sensible flight times and a couple of nights in a nice hotel for a smidge over £200 each. See a new city, browse the Christmas markets, scarf a…
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More meanderings in a van
Life’s a funny thing. You start off with all the time in the world, but no money to do anything, and from that point on you tend to oscillate frequently between the two. I don’t necessarily struggle too much with either, but invariably my free time is…at the wrong time. Since I work a particularly…
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Van days are the best days
A change is as good a rest, they say. Change can be an invigorating thing. After 4 years on Roads Policing and 20 years as a PC/DC I felt the time was ripe to spread my wings and move upwards. Whilst a great role, policing the highways and byways of Somerset is not without its…
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Meetin’ OC
So, we’ve arrived. Shuttle to the humungous hire car complex and yet another inexplicable and slow-moving line of glum visitors. Thankfully when we finally reached the front of the line we were greeted in a friendly manner, and clearly they’d run out of ‘medium SUVs’ as booked so our options went: Pickup truck. I’d have…
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Cruisin’
A cheerful jaunt from LA to Baja California and back, on a floating city of fun
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Back in the saddle… California
Sometimes you drop off the writing wagon for a while. Sometimes for more than a while. Perhaps the truth is that, when you‘ve done the trip of trips, around the world mainly by train, with scrapes, spills and strange men trying to sell you raccoons, all else seems pedestrian in the world of holidays. But…
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From Cape to Grape… Moving on in South Africa
Cape Town and surrounds had been brilliant, however it was now time that we moved on and saw some more of what South Africa had to offer. We decided that we wanted to see both Stellenbosch and Franschoek, a bit of a whistle stop tour since Addo was calling, and there was a fair bit…
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