Category: World travel
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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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The many faces of Cape Town: A whistle stop tour
It was probably fortuitous that we’d saved the Proper Sightseeing for a few days in, since Mark’s epic lurgy was showing no signs of abating. Our first destination? Robben Island. Robben Island Much like Auschwitz, I wouldn’t regard a trip to Robben Island as a particularly bouncy, fun day. However, like Auschwitz there are some…
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Travel kitlist: Getting them all lined up
Now, excuse my bluntness, but a lot of travel advice is bollocks. As an example, if you took the combined advice of the American and UK foreign offices as to which countries are safe and which are not, you’d never leave home. FOREIGN DANGER everywhere. It would be irresponsible of me to advise the adoption…
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Blasts from the past: Rekawa Beach, Sri Lanka 2018
In changing my blog editor I’ve come across a few nuggets from past travels. Since I hate deleting things, please enjoy this unfinished symphony from 2018… My journey down from Tissa was relatively painless, as first experiences of bussing it in Sri Lanka go. Being on the bus at its origin is a good tactic,…
