Category: travel
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Cornering Cornwall (Corny?)
We spent a couple of weeks in deepest, darkest Cornwall before peak tourist season. It wasn’t sunny… Some Serious Islands The Isles of Scilly lie off the coast of Cornwall and are accessible by ferry, plane, and helicopter. We opted for the ferry from Penzance to St Mary’s island as the most reasonably priced option,…
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Any Port(ugal) in a Storm
As an antidote to the dire weather the South West has been experiencing over the last weeks and months, we took a trip out to Albufeira in the Algarve for four nights. I have never been interested in package holidays. In fact, I have actively resisted them. We did a Haven holiday to Brittany when…
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Do Android Sheep Dream of Electric Cars?
This one is a little delayed, but it hasn’t exactly been a normal week. What possessed me to try and do a long journey in an electric car, you might ask? Perhaps I just needed a distraction. You can’t ask a gadget fan if they’d rather have a Polestar 2 or a Vauxhall Astra. It’s…
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Island Hopping (Asia 2023 Part 4)
It has been a while, but it’s time to get back to Japan. The car opened up a lot of opportunities for exploration of the main island of Okinawa, but there was no need for motorised transport on the smallest islands we visited. Ferrying out to Aka island on a high speed boat was a…
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2024, Don’t be a Bore?
That was a struggle, but titles don’t always come easy. Here’s a little retrospective of the last year. It has been a slightly exhausting start to the year, but one filled with more gaming than the last few months combined. In preparation for this post I had a look back through my archive and found…
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Thoughts on a Train
A service of light humour will be available in this post. It’s apt to be more reliable than the train… I am feeling inspired. Inspired enough to kill some time on the journey back from London to Plymouth. Three and a half hours is nothing to sniff at and one needs distractions while travelling in…
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Gohan ご飯. It’s not just Rice (Asia 2023 Part 3)
Gohan ご飯 refers to cooked rice, but in a broader sense it can mean food or any meal. And broadly speaking, this installment in the series is all about food encountered in Japan and Korea. I have been a fan of Japanese cuisine ever since trying sushi made by my brother many years ago. He…
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Driving Miss Evie (Asia 2023 Part 2)
It has been an exhausting transition back from holiday mode to work. It hasn’t been helped by the eight hour time difference and illness brewing in the background. I’m picking up from where I left off last time. We’re in a rental car office in Naha, Okinawa on a beautifully sunny day… After a couple…
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The Halloween 2023 Filmmaking Challenge
This year was different from other years. Yes we were travelling again, but the Halloween film for 2023 was in pre-pre-production when we left. It was so pre-production, it wasn’t really even an idea. Newforge Studios Every year (almost) we have put together a short film for Halloween under the Newforge Studios name. This started…
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Autumn and Apples
I’ve been feeling autumnal, and what better way to celebrate than a drink! The Autumn Fruit Harvest If I call it a harvest, maybe it will distract from the fact there is only one apple. The cordon is only a couple of years old at this time so not quite at fruiting maturity. All of…
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