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View from the Beach

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Just back from the beach. Life’s a beach? Not sure, but all human life is on the beach. […]

August 21, 2019 Art, Beach, collage, drifting, Holidays, photography, rubbish, seaside, Tourism, TRAVEL, Wildlife

Paris From The BackTracks

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Paris, the city of Love, the City of Light. Emblematic, iconic, legendary, but from the train, it looks […]

June 23, 2019 drifting, Edgelands, Landscapes, Paris, photography, Railways, Tourism, TRAVEL

Robot Adventure

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OMG. Last night I founf a channel pumping out old B series science fiction (Space 1999 and UFO) […]

March 10, 2019 Art, photography, Robot, Tourism, TRAVEL, Uncategorized

Floating Around With the Garlic Whale

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    Some unpublished Holiday memories   Summer time and the living is easy, unless you are looking […]

July 30, 2018 Culture, Family, France, Fun, Holidays, Life, photography, seaside, Stress, Tourism, TRAVEL, Travel writing, Uncategorized, writing

Thoughts on Travel Writing

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In this holiday season, some thoughts on Travel Writin, taken from my 2014 novel “Ashes for Salmon” – […]

July 29, 2018 drifting, summer, Tourism, TRAVEL, Travel writing, Uncategorized, writing

Tourists

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Tourists – we are, we have been and we will be. The whole world is on holiday, and […]

July 29, 2018 Boats, canals, drifting, Europe, France, Holidays, London, Paris, photography, Sailing, summer, Tourism, TRAVEL

ROAD FOOD

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On the road for work last week, heading to those parts of France that tourists never go. I […]

May 20, 2018 Art, Café, cheap hotels, Cooking, drifting, Europe, Food, France, gastronomy, junk, Lentils, Motoring, photography, Road trip, Tourism, Uncategorized

The Mystery In Space Adventure – a nonsense story

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Drifting round a downtown bookshop, looking for something to read. « The Mystery In Space Adventure. » The title screams […]

March 4, 2018 Cheap flights, DIY, drifting, driving, Holidays, seaside, Tourism, TRAVEL, Uncategorized

Over the Tracks and into the Marshes

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Across the tracks and into that mysterious place that we call “Les Marais” – preferable to the rather […]

February 9, 2018 Bourges, canals, countryside, deepest france, drifting, France, Gardening, Heritage, photography, Provincial France, rubbish, Small town, summer, Tourism, TRAVEL

Flights of Fancy?

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There’s certainly plenty up in the air where I live – flimsy; single-engine light aircraft, limping in and […]

January 23, 2018 Airports, Bourges, Brexit, Britain, Cheap flights, countryside, deepest france, Economy, Ex-pat, France, French, Holidays, Hub airports, Low cost carriers, Rural Life, seaside, Tourism, TRAVEL

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