Normandy countryside in late September September is a lovely time to visit Normandy, the sun still sparkles in between the[…]
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Mont St Michel and more Normandy adventures
Magnificent Mont St Michel Long before CGI created the island fortress of Dragonstone in Game of Thrones, there was the[…]
Read moreAnd now to Normandy
Bonjour! I’m back in Normandy with the Bell family who came here from the UK in 2008 with their two children, to[…]
Read moreLast stop on our Silk Road adventures
Undeniably unique – Uzbekistan We pulled into the station back at the capital Tashkent, and emerged from the overnight soviet[…]
Read moreBack to Bukhara at the Malika Hotel
Popping into the palace We had one more day and night in beautiful Bukhara and so more shopping and a[…]
Read moreThe Silk Road – beautiful Bukhara and the Rumi hostel
Beautiful Bukhara All aboard the SHARQ train from Samarkand to our next stop on the Silk Road – Bukhara.The SHARQ[…]
Read moreSamarkand on the Silk Road and the Jahongir Hotel
The majestic Registan square The city of Samarkand, – an exotic faraway place I knew only through reading the[…]
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The Silk Road – from Tashkent to Samarkand – Uzbekistan
The Topchan teapot The Silk Road, exotic and colourful in the imagination, was an ancient network of trade routes that[…]
Read moreSummer in Wales and the Chepstow show
You too, with a Ewe! I was off on my annual visit to Wales again to see the country dwelling[…]
Read moreTransylvania – in the shadow of Dracula
Banffy Castle – fit for a Count! Transylvania means literally, ‘the land beyond the forest,’ but for most of us,[…]
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