Category: Travel

Group 5

I regard it as a badge of honour to have Group 5 on my BA boarding pass. I am the last to board (no problem) and there is often no overhead locker space (annoying) but I know that I have paid the lowest fare (satisfying). On Thursday something happened that the BA commissars did not… Continue reading Group 5

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Lyn y Fan Fach

If your Welsh is a bit rusty Lyn y Fan Fach means Lake of the Small Hill. A more apt name would be Small Lake of the Big Hill.

Ingaret the Navigator

It’s an annoying convention that one is expected to bring a gift when going to stay with friends; a convention I often observe in the breach.

Pesaro

I read a Good News story recently. The restriction on taking liquids in excess of 100 ml in hand luggage should be lifted soon. I well remember when it was introduced.

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Questions But No Answers

Walking in the woods yesterday I found this semi-circular stone edifice. It is on an outcrop high above the river Aveyron. Could it have provided shelter for a look-out or a forester? It is about the same size as the WW II pillboxes you see in England.

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Two Masses

The hunting season has opened in the Tarn and on Sunday morning local sportsmen were out in pursuit of deer and boar (sangliers). Not a good day to be out walking in the woods with Reggie.

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Exekias: Painter and Potter

When I arrived at Garrhan in the Tarn on Friday evening I was first greeted by Reggie. We performed a ritual that was already established in the 6th century BC.

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Quarkini

Forgive me, for I have sinned; sins of omission are my special weakness. Earlier this summer I moaned about the bus replacement service after Ariadne auf Naxos at Longborough. You were entitled to think that I was on that bus when the reality is that I went back with my host in an ultra-comfy BMW.

The Hills Are Alive …

The Malvern hills are alive with the sound of music. “ … There is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require.” So said Edward Elgar.

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Malvern Hills

Robert and I usually take a few days respite from London life and here we are in the Malvern Hills.