Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Today was all about water. Subtropical Swimming Paradise The big attraction in Center Parcs is the “Subtropical Swimming Paradise” although that’s a bit of a misnomer as it is not really possible to swim in it. It’s one of the free, or should I say, included things to do. There are essentially three areas – …
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Mainly this break is about our grandchildren so most of the activities revolve around them but actually, the first thing was did was adult oriented – Segways. I have been on the self-righting machine a couple of times before and each time has been great fun. After the obligatory training session and health and safety …
If you live in the UK, you will have been enjoying the excellent weather over the last six weeks. This week we are making our annual pilgrimage to Center Parcs and, as is now traditional, all that changed as almost literally as we drove through the entrance the drizzle started. That’s three years in a …
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Generally, Reading does a pretty good job of putting on a wide variety of events in the town. Not music and theatre as The Hexagon is too small a venue for many acts and it’s too close to London to attract many who would naturally gravitate there. However, occasionally something out of the ordinary comes …
We’ve attended a couple of events recently that have taken place locally. One, the National Garden Scheme, which, as the name suggests, is a national event that takes place locally; the other, Whiteknights Studio Trail, is locally organised and run. Both are the height of voyeurism if you like to nose around other people’s homes …
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We had a morning to kill in Bath and as the weather was so good and because we’d enjoyed it so much we decided to head back to the canal. Feeling like Bath natives rather than tourists we headed out without the need to refer to the map retracing our steps across the Pulteney Bridge …
Bath is known for its spring water and the Roman Baths that were built to take advantage of them which, the leaflet I have in my hand tells me, are the only mineral waters in the UK to be hot. There are three springs in Bath where this water emerges, where it comes from is, …
One of the great things about Reading is that it is easy to escape from and quickly and easily get to almost anywhere in the UK. While it is possible to get away by car we much prefer to travel by public transport when we can and with Reading being a hub getting away by …
Our last day in the German Capital and today we finally got to go up the TV Tower after our aborted attempt yesterday. Fernsehturm The tower is obviously an East German/Soviet Block thing with its very brutal design and a section that is designed to look like Sputnik. Fortunately, there weren’t any stairs and so …
The plan had been for there to have been a male/female split today with the former going up the TV Tower and the latter doing some shopping. This plan was quickly scuppered when we discovered that today is, like in the UK, a public holiday but, unlike in the UK, it is taken a bit …
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