Category Western
Winter Weg: The Frozen North
Week 2: Day 7 – Day 14 20th – 26th December 2016 Arriving in Europe On arrival in Denmark, we blearily stepped off the plane into a cold wintry evening. The cold seeps in through the gaps in the airport bubble where the plane meets the ground. Airport staff joke in Danish. The airport is […]
Week 50 – Battered Suitcases on the Sidewalk
4th till 10th August, 2014 Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. – Jack Kerouac Heading to Greenwich On our last morning in Oldham, we cooked a huge English breakfast to thank Suzanne and Kieran for their hospitality. Besides the […]
Week 49 – Friendships Renewed
28th July – 3rd August 2014 Unification On Monday Graham arrived back in Dublin, forty-five minutes early, thanks to a stiff Atlantic tailwind pushing the Aer Lingus flight briskly eastwards. Not bad, but since this flight thus arrives at Dublin at 0450, this means an hour or so waiting at the airport for the first […]
Week 48 East: Cheshire to Denbighshire
July 20th till 27th, 2014 Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard Chester The Black-and-white Revival was an architectural movement from the middle of the 19th century which re-used the vernacular elements of the past, using […]
Week 47 East: The Lakes to Liverpool – Part 2/2
July 16th till 19th 2014 The general at the radar screen he should have got the sack But that wouldn’t bring Three thousand million, seven hundred, and sixty-eight people back, Would it? Icarus Allsorts, from The Mersey Sound (1967) So from the quiet green of The Lakes we entered the hip urban city of Liverpool. […]
Week 47 East: The Lakes to Liverpool – Part 1/2
13th till 16th of July, 2014 On week 47 of our tour, I scheduled a surprise for the boys. A few days with no gadgets, no TV, no electricity even. Some surprise, huh? An all back to nature, All camping, all hiking, all campfire – boys own adventure – in a gypsy caravan. Day 1 […]
Week 46 West – I ♥ Aircraft Noise
11th – 13th July 2014 Prunella and the boys have headed off to Oxford and I’m sticking around in Gloucestershire for a couple more days. John and I drop Prunella and the boys off at the Stroud station and we head home via a hardware store to pick up some cement and aggregate. We spend […]
