Life's about experiences. These are mine.
We had pretty much a full day before our flight this evening so we got to do the things that we’d wanted to do yesterday but couldn’t because of the strike. REVENGE Speaking of the strike, as we walked back to the hotel last night, the clear-up process had already begun. Workers were pressure washing …
I have to admit that I did consider using a much more provocative image than the one actually shown for today but one of armed riot police might have been offputting! “transport, flights, and ferries” Let’s step back a bit. When we arrived on Wednesday there was a notice pinned inside the tiny lift that …
After yesterday’s success, I did consider getting ChatGPT to write the whole of this blog post, but unsurprisingly, having not actually been there with us, the suggested post read more like a travel guide than anything that I would have written, so this is me again. Today was a bit of a greatest hits tour …
Round about this time of year we try and head off abroad to catch some early sun while the UK is bathed in cold rain. Normally, that would be to Seville, Spain but we fancied a change this year and Seville had problems with flooding earlier in the year so we looked elsewhere. ChatGPT has …
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If you are a regular follower of the blog then you will know that I have been trying to visit all the museums in the Reading area. Now that is pretty much completed I thought it would be useful to highlight where these all are. If I have missed any please let me know in …
London is packed with interesting little places that pop up on my radar occasionally. I have no recollection of how I came across the Mithraeum, but after visiting it at the weekend, I am glad that I did. Roman About The London Mithraeum is, now, underneath the Bloomberg SPACE building. Discovered in 1954 the Mithraeum …
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I’d been planning to visit the Thames Valley Police Museum for quite a while, but it is only open from 10 a.m. to midday on a Wednesday, and that always seemed to clash with something else. In the end, I blocked out the time in my diary so I could go and today was the …
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As I continue to tick off the museums of Reading today I visited one that is only open a couple of times a month – The Royal Berkshire Medical Museum and Archive. I’ve known of its existance for quite a while but have only just got around to visiting and they make it challenging for …
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I was back up to London today where I was headed to the Design Museum, somewhere I had not been previously. My first thoughts on arrival were that I didn’t think much of the design of the place itself, which seemed pretty ordinary, but there clearly had been quite a bit of design thought gone …
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As I’ve said before I love London. It’s packed with interesting places, people, art and architecture and a great place to visit for a day but couldn’t live there. I’m happy to explore the usual haunts that the city is famous for but equally like to find places a little more unusual hence today’s visit …