Life's about experiences. These are mine.
The great thing about having gone out of Amsterdam the last couple of days was that meant we could explore some of the city today without repeating ourselves. A Place of Calm When we were here last time we stumbled upon a place called Begijnhof which we’d remembered as a quiet area in the centre …
Continue reading “Amsterdam 2025 – Day Four – Amsterdam & Eurostop”
We had this morning loosely planned out, where we’d do some of the highlights of Amsterdam. Helen then said the next time we come, we should go further afield, so I suggested we go to Delft today. This is not something we Thompsons do. We aren’t really known for our spontaneity. Even so, less than …
Today was the reason we were in Amsterdam – a visit to Keukenhof (I’m told it is pronounced Kook-en-hof) – the self proclaimed “most beautiful spring garden in the world”. In all the years that we have been coming to The Netherlands we have never made a visit there before but as we were planning …
We were off to Amsterdam this morning and, for once, there was no flying involved, which made for a much less stressful and, not to say environmentally friendly, journey. That’s not to say that it was any shorter, as door-to-door, the journey took us seven hours. When we arrived at St. Pancras station, we decided …
Since retiring I’ve had the flexibility to do things that previously I couldn’t due to work commitments, particularly those taking place during the week. A number of these events have been part of the local u3a group, an international organisation for those that have retired or semi-retired. One such event was the one I attended …
Continue reading “Royal Courts of Justice & The Old Bailey, London”
Heading out for our fifth leg of the Thames Path this morning, neither Helen nor I were really feeling it, suffering from an unexplainable malaise. However, we pushed on and were really glad that we did. The weather was supposed to be sunny but feel like only four degrees due to a cold wind, but …
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It has been quite a while since I last did a Record Store Day; in fact, it has been eight years. The reasons for this are many but mainly it’s been because the date has clashed with other things in many of those years and then there was COVID too. However, this year I decided …
I had seen on the Reading Walks Festival site that one of the walks this year was around Reading’s Inner Distribution Road. Unfortunately, I couldn’t make this but that didn’t stop me from doing the walk myself, so I did! Queens Road I got the bus into town and alighted at Duke Street so an …
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Having not done any legs of the path for over nine months, suddenly we have done three in the space of six weeks, and we have, finally, reached our home port! We headed out from Reading on what promised to be a beautiful day once again. This time we got the bus from town to …
Continue reading “Thames Path – Day Eleven –Henley-on-Thames to Reading”
So, as promised, we were back on the Thames Path this morning for the Marlow to Henley-on-Thames (henceforth known as Henley) leg. However, it very nearly didn’t happen as when I checked my emails first thing I discovered that there was broken rail between Reading and London and this was causing cancellations and delays. We …
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