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Grainger Market a Newcastle gem
The Grainger market is 188 years old! It was built to replace an open air butcher’s market and is one of the few remaining 19th century buildings still trading as a covered market in the UK.
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Why visit France?
France is the Brit’s favourite country after Spain. Proximity is of course one reason we like to visit France. Getting there has never been so easy since the opening of the Eurotunnel but we have always set off across the channel by sea or by air to the land of “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”
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Day 2 at Native Animal Rescue First fix the Bandicoot’s breakfast. The Bandicoot is a small cute pointy nosed marsupial with[…]
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I receive my induction chat along with the other new volunteers at the Fauna Rescue centre in Malaga (pronounced Ma[…]
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