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Goodbye Killarney
Well we discovered that Killarney is a night owl sort of place as the buses do not start departing until 10.00am. Our flight home leaves Shannon on Thursday morning at 10.40am, so I capitulated to Irish time and custom and booked us a room at the Park Inn at Shannon Airport for Wednesday night. We…
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Ring of Kerry Tour – 16 July 2019
So we woke up to sunshine and white clouds in the sky. The bus came to our hotel to pick us up. The driver and guide was a man full of blarney, information and a love of talking about life in County Kerry today and in the past. And he obviously enjoyed leading the tour.…
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A Day Out to the Quilt Show in Malvern
For the second Friday in a row I ventured out to the Three Counties Show Ground. This time I went by train and taxi as driving to the RHS Spring Show the previous Friday had taken 3 hours for a normally 50 minute trip. It has been a while since I have been back to…
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A Few Days in Torquay
Saturday on the M5 Earlier this year Colin, Judith’s brother, rang to invite us to join himself and Helen & Michael in Torquay. Colin invested in a timeshare of a canal boat many years ago and now swaps his timeshare off for holidays around Europe in a system that is a complete mystery to me.…
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Workshops Day 3 – 8 April
So the day did not go quite to Jamie’s plan. We were supposed to do Khadi printing, white paint on white cotton. But we found out that evening that the man expected to offer the white printing had tried to double his fee the night before. So we went to a lovely building being restored…
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Brief description of our holiday in Jaipur
We went to Jaipur on an organised tour with Colouricious Holidays with the theme of Block Printing with Jamie Malden. It was well organised and planned. Our time was filled with visits to textile factories (not of the western sort) but small buildings where fabrics are handprinted by teams of workers. We were able to…
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Block Printing Workshops
We had workshops in different types of block printing in different regions over six days and each day was at a different venue and a different part of the Jaipur region. Thursday 4th April Our first workshop was in Gem Vihar Colony in south Jaipur near the airport. We did metallic printing with Gold and…
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Hotel Meghniwas, Jaipur
We stayed at a family owned hotel in a lovely setting. The hotel provided organic vegetarian buffets for breakfast and evening dinner. The heat and busy schedule meant we frequently only needed afternoon snacks rather than stopping for lunch. The staff was friendly and numerous. The owners Colonel Singh (retired) and his wife live on…
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