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Travel: The Two Doctors “Best winemaker awards 2016”
A few of our followers are wine enthusiasts so it seems appropriate to write a review of our best wine experiences of 2016. This year we have visited Spain three times, Italy once, Prague and Hungary once, and France twice,… Read More ›
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Local: A mosaic of museums 2016
A fellow blogger recently wrote an article about what it is that gives people “the travel bug”, is it genetic handed on from parents, is it a single experience of a childhood holiday, is it influence from a friend? In… Read More ›
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Travel: In search of El Bosco!
Persuading Dr C to accompany me to an art gallery in Bruges was a major triumph and one I was determined would be an “opinion changing experience for her” following on from her positive experience viewing The Slav Epic exhibition… Read More ›
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Local:Churches as history teachers
Did you know that in medieval times the interior walls of churches were painted with the equivalent of PowerPoint presentations for a congregation who couldn’t read, or that lych gates were built at church entrances to store corpses before burial… Read More ›
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A crisis of leadership?
The potential for break up of the European Union gathers momentum as the UKs Brexit vote is followed by the Italian people rejecting the policies of their prime minister in their own referendum, and the rise of Marine Le Pen… Read More ›
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Local:Try a museum for your next destination
“A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of… Read More ›
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Mountains:”I’m a mountaineer get me out of here!”
Lobuche East; Nepal I wrote this article about a small expedition to the Himalayan peak, Lobuche East in 2005. I was 59 years old and extremely fit, reasonably experienced as a mountaineer, and with lots of family connections in Nepal on… Read More ›
