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The Kimberley II: Mount Elizabeth to Broome
This is the fourth blog post on our round the world trip August – November 2016. It covers the second half of our drive through the Kimberley in north-west Australia. Go here for a picture gallery. Bell Gorge After getting … Continue reading
The Kimberley I: Darwin to Mount Elizabeth
This is the third blog post on our round the world trip August – November 2016. It covers the first half of our drive through the Kimberley in north-west Australia. Go here for a picture gallery. Organizing the drive We … Continue reading
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Tagged Bungle Bungles, Darwin, Darwin museum, El Questro, Gibb River Road, Katherine, Kimberley, Kununurra, Mount Elizabeth station, Nitmiluk, Pentecost River
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Ships and Dragons: Singapore to Darwin
This is the second post on our round the world trip August – November 2016. Go here for a picture gallery. Deciding to take the cruise Booking the cruise from Singapore to Darwin on P&O Australia’s Pacific Eden was something … Continue reading
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Tagged Cristo Rei, Dili, East Timor, Fort Rotterdam, Indonesia, Komodo dragon, Lombok, Makassar, Mataram, P&O Australia, Pacific Eden, Ujung Pandang
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Kuala Lumpur and Singapore
This is the first of several blog posts describing our round the world trip whch began on Tuesday 23 August 2016. The main reason for this trip was to see a lot more of Australia than we had done on … Continue reading
10 Hot Days in Turkey
Go here for a picture gallery. In early May, when it looked like it might rain for ever, we decided it was time for some sun. We really like the Eastern Mediterranean. As we had spent 2 weeks in our … Continue reading
10 Fine Days in Scotland
For more pictures from this trip, go here. Top of the agenda when our American friend Nancy came to stay in late May was a visit to Scotland. But first we had to see more of Yorkshire. After a very … Continue reading
Thoughts on the Brexiterendum
Not since the Iraq War have I felt so enraged about the actions of our politicians and so I’ve put together some thoughts on the Brexiterendum and the mess it has got us into. The First Mistake This referendum should … Continue reading
A Cruise to the Western Caribbean
More pictures are here – gallery revised on 1 November 2018 We’re not long back from 7 weeks in our house in Florida. In the last week of February we took a one-week cruise to the Western Caribbean on the … Continue reading
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A Trip to Florida’s Forgotten Coast
If you just want to see pictures from this trip, go here. We’re just back from 5 weeks at our house in Florida. Finally we got to take a trip we had planned for years, up to the Forgotten Coast. … Continue reading
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Practicalities for Pensionable Roadtrippers
Finding the way The RAC Routeplanner was very useful to get some idea of distances even though we rarely kept exactly to the routes it suggested. We used a 4-year old detailed road atlas of France and a less detailed … Continue reading
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