Travels and adventures in retirement
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Wednesday 18 December – Off to a Good Start?
So we booked a mini-cab/taxi for 7am Weds. morning. He arrived early but when he asked us to. confirm which terminal we were going to we were a bit concerned. I think we were his second fare to the airport. But we arrived safely and in good time even travelling in rush hour. Bag drop…
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Christmas Cruising 18-25 Dec 2019
On the way to the Allegro Lounge in Northfield a few months back, we passed the Tui shop window and spotted a cruise of the eastern Mediterranean on offer. So after dinner we went home looked it up and the next evening booked the cruise going from Cyprus to Turkey, Egypt and Israel, followed by…
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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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Birthday trip to Killarney – 15 July 2019
I came to Killarney a few years ago with Judith and my sisters. Our one regret was not getting to see the Ring of Kerry. So I decided to make a quick journey back to take a bus tour round the Ring – it is a 180 mile circular journey. That is tomorrow’s treat. Today…
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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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I am not a Weaver
A few months ago a member of the Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers was looking for a member or friend to travel with her to Farfield Mill in Sedbergh. She wanted to support the mill by joining a workshop on Weaving a Tartan. As the blurb about the course reassuringly that it was suitable…
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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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