Tag: travel
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14 January 2026
Today was a gentle day. We nearly missed breakfast as we slept in til after 8.20am and breakfast is over by 9:00. So after we went off to explore the quay side and got nobbled by every shop keeper on the shops. We did manage to get 2 half pint for our tea point in…
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Parkrun Tourist Part 3
Friday 18 April heading to Barnsley Judith wanted to return to Barnsley where she first worked for the YMCA and to meet up with friends who she originally knew as youth club members. So we took an afternoon train to Barnsley with plans she would do the Locke Park Parkrun. So Friday evening we met…
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Visiting home 2023
Finally got to come home to see family this year. The trip was originally planned for 2020 but sadly was cancelled by Covid pandemic and lockdowns. So being cautious about sharing air in a full airplane of people. So 7th July 2023 was our day to set-off to spend a month visiting family in Pennsylvania,…
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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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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…
Tina’s Travels 