Life's about experiences. These are mine.
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 …
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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 …
Continue reading “Berlin 2023 – Day Three – It’s Sunday Again!”
After a quick walk around part of the city on our arrival yesterday today was going to be the day when we explored more. However, we unexpectedly ended up exploring parts of the city where tourists don’t normally find themselves. Our first port of call was Checkpoint Charlie which turned out to be a bit …
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Our first day in Berlin sees us tackle the S-Bahn, visit a protest, and eat a “hearty” meal.
I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast two concerts that I have been to recently – American pop rockers The Band CAMINO and British aging rockers Mike + the Mechanics. The Band CAMINO, O2 Institute, Birmingham The Band CAMINO have been around long enough to release an EP and their eponymous debut …
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Thanks to the law on Gift Aid in the UK, the ticket I purchased for Dad’s birthday last year meant that we could come back multiple times for a year. You can read about the previous visit here including more discussion on the fascinating law (🥱) that allows such largess (TL;DR they are forced to …
I’ve lived in Reading for over 35 years now and have seen the much maligned town (Her Maj has refused on several occasions to grant it city status) go from strength to strength. This has been helped in part but a much more cohesive offering around the cultural aspects of the town such as the …
It was only a few weeks ago that I was trying to refute that I’m not some closet trainspotter, yet here I am at Didcot Railway Centre looking at steam trains. To be fair, I was there so that my granddaughter could see Paddington (the bear) but that does still seem to leave me on …