Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Ok, not just any churches but an Abbey and a Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Cathedral to be precise. Westminster Cathedral The idea of visiting Westminster Cathedral was that it has a bell tower from which you can, apparently, see great views over the centre of London. I say apparently, as when we arrived we found …
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Reading has many things going for it but one of the greatest successes must be Reading Buses. This year they are celebrating their 125th anniversary and all of that time they have remained publicly owned. They have even managed to see off Margaret Thatcher’s attempt at privatisation (sorry, I mean, Bus Deregulation) which is no …
After a comfortable nights stop at The Trout and a full English we were ready for another days walk – today only ten miles. Before leaving we spoke to one of the pub workers who lives on a boat at New Bridge, which we’d passed yesterday. He drives to work as it would take him …
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We’re on the home stretch of our Thames Path journey now with just four stages to go. We headed out today for a double header taking us even closer to our goal. The problem with two day walks As we are trying to do the whole length just using public transport we had to make …
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This last week has very much been about planes, trains and automobiles. Today’s post covers the former of that triumvirate. There is something fascinating (to me) about transport and as far as I am concerned, the bigger the better. So an opportunity to see some of the largest planes up close and in action was …
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At the third time of asking I finally managed to get to see a screening of the film “People’s Emergency Briefing“. This is, for those that haven’t heard about it, a 50 minute film about climate change based on presentations given by “so-called” experts to select politicians held in Westminster last year. Grass Roots Movement …
The Oxford Bus Museum is what I would call notionally in Oxford given that it is ten miles north of the city. However, it is just 15 minutes by train, which is how I arrived. Google Maps had said that from Hanborough station it was a seven-minute walk to the museum, but it turned out …
I really shouldn’t have been surprised at the level of security to get into the Bank of England Museum, but I was. There are airport-style scanners through which all your stuff has to go, including anything metal, so off came the belt. This, of course, is not to protect the museum but what is housed …
It is somewhat ironic that both my attempts to visit the London Transport Museum have come with transport problems. I had intended to visit last week but then the line between Reading and Paddington was closed due to an “incident”. Today the train was merely late. Major Sidebar Fortunately, in keeping with many others attractions, …
The second of my two Heritage Open Days this year and this one was closer to home. Reading Minster My first stop was the Reading Minster on St Mary’s Butts an interesting chequered building that I had never been into before. I was drawn in by the promise of “historic parish records alongside Norman foundations, …
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