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19th April – Ring of Kerry
Awoken at 4:30 by the dawn chorus, up at 6:30 to be greeted with a lovely sunrise and a 2 hour wait for breakfast. Hotel info stated that breakfast started at 07:30 however, we found that did not...
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21st April – Slea Head, Dingle and The Rose
Mixed weather day today as we set of for another busy day touring County Kerry, this time we head for Dingle and Slea Head on the Atlantic coast of County Kerry, this will be the last outing on this...
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Ireland, Travelling Home, Disasters, Accidents and Reflections on Holiday
Disasters etc. Final day – breakfasted at 7:30 on bus for 8 a.m. set off for Belfast at 08:15 a.m. We were expected to be in Belfast to meet the ferry at 5 p.m. so a long drive ahead of us. I did not...
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Bulb Field Tour and Cruise Day Arrival
On 27th April Susan and I set off on the first part of our 11 day cruise on the Canals and Rhine commencing 28th. We had to make our way to Ashford International and one of the Ashford hotels where we...
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Bulb Field Tour – Day 2 – Keukenhof – Utterecht – Dordecht
Keukenhof translates to Kitchen Garden – and that is how this large commercial garden park began. Owned by Jacqueline of Bavaria born 1401 a small part of her castle estate was set aside as her...
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Bulb Field Tour – Day 3 – Delft – Amsterdam 30-4-2011
DELFT Day 3 – last day of tour – tomorrow we should board the bus for the journey home. However, we are on an extended tour of the Rhine which follows on from here. Today we have a tour round the...
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Bulb Field Tour – Day 4 – Amsterdam 1/5/2011
My partner Susan left a comment regarding my last blog on this trip – She found it confusing when I referred at the end to having to get the bus home next day. However, it would not have been if we had...
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Rhine Cruise Became a Coach Holiday
Up early today lovely sunrise : The original Schedule for today was to cruise up the Rhine to Arnhem and have lunch there then an afternoon cruise to Cologne were we would stay overnight. However, due...
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He who holds Stirling….
Sunday June 2011 weather forecast was Sunny periods with light showers – this made me revise my plans for the day. Previous forecast for Sunday was Sunny in the West coast which in turn help Susan and...
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Following a Trail – Sir Walter Scott
Over the past few months I have been following a trail of Scottish history and along with my partner Susan and good friend Sid, have visited many of the historic sites such as: Arbroath Abbey Dryburgh...
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The Adventure Begins – 1 April 2011
Friday 1st April, Day of Fools, my late grandmother’s day of birth and the very first day of my retirement. All the fuss of the day before over, farewell speeches made, nice evening out for a meal and...
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Intrepids Visited Craigmillar Castle September 2011
Craigmillar Castle:- the Intrepids paid a visit there on 18th September 2011 when the weather was mixed, being sunshine, windy and showers - in other words typical good old Scottish weather. The walk...
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