The Day Job My day job sees me driving around 1500 miles a week, not a lot compared to the trunkers of the UK. However Monday I had an unexpected journey to Manchester in a van, thankfully. I programmed my sat-nav and followed it’s guidance. The Woodhead Pass As I turned off the M1 north …
Continue reading "Woodhead Pass Derbyshire "Where are you going to spend Christmas Time this year, are you flying over seas, are you taking the Kids to Lapland to see Santa and his Reindeer. Sunnier climbs Are you maybe off to spend Christmas in Australia or America if you are lucky enough to have family in hotter climbs? White Christmas Are …
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Water skiing maybe Moving on from Tangiers, I must confess I have never been skiing,on snow at least. I water skied a few times in my 20s at Gosfield lake. Baggage When I worked briefly at Stansted, as a baggage handler I loaded a lot of aircraft off to the piste as well as sunnier climbs. …
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In.Where in the world and in Just one place in morroco I detail the cruise I went on with my mother and father in 1984 as a twelve year old. The thing that day trip showed me looking back was a completely different culture, a culture in which a base ball cap was currency, a culture which commanded …
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A Christmas shopping treat A Christmas shopping stop again, this time the Harvester in Stanway Colchester. I ordered the Steak medium, no sauce, but only because i am an English mustard lover. The onion rings, chips and water cress with my mother in laws extra portion was amazing. The only real reason to knock half …
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A Christmas shopping break My fiancee, my mother in law and I had been out Christmas shopping. My fiancee was looking to spend her birthday money too! We decided to call in at the Toby carvery in Stanway, Colchester. My personal trepidation was I must admit, unfounded, it was a fantastic meal. With a …
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Gozo is an island that, on the one hand you want to shout about but on the other say ‘shhh don’t tell anyone’. Gozo is one of the Mediterranean’s best kept secrets, it is the second largest of the Maltese islands and lies south of Sicily and west of Tunisia, it is quaint and traditional, …
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V FESTIVAL and other Festivals We all know that times have changed the big music festivals V Reading Leeds Glastonbury (which is going to have a gap year in 2018) ] isle of Wight I could list them all but that would be boring. There are still the Stadium rockers such as U2, but most …
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I know it’s another country, but apart from being one of the Technology centres of the world, Japan is home to the ancient warrior code of Bushido and it’s Samurai practitioners of old at least but had influences as recently as world war 2, Failure is not an option! Failure would most likely see the …
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