Category: World travel
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A perfectly acceptable little midweek jolly
In life, it’s all about peaks and troughs. The peak in this case was having both night shifts off [although writing this it’s suddenly occurred to me that I’ve therefore missed out on fifty quid’s worth of shift allowance…trough] The [second] trough was having to drag my arse to Bristol Magistrates Court for a 2…
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Van jaunts are the best jaunts
Owning an old van comes with a great degree of guilt, if you don’t use it enough. Primary excuses for the past month have been based around lack of time and weather. But with the latter improving, and an overtime ban at work assisting the former, it was time for an outing. Thankfully, the ‘excuse’…
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Into the jungle
So, we’d arrived in Thailand. A good three days of beach bumming, but there always needs to be something to break it up a bit. Having looked around previously Khao Sok National Park seemed like a good shout…not a million miles from Phuket and definitely somewhere interesting to visit. Having looked around, various places were…
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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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