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One year on …

A queue of people at passport control at an airport
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29th January 2020: one year ago today. Pre-Brexit. Pre-pandemic. It feels like a lifetime ago, or as if […]

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January 29, 2021 A dad's life

Butlins stays the same – and yet it’s different every year

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After eight years, we’re still not bored with going to Butlins. Here’s why we still enjoy it.

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November 9, 2017 A dad's life
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My Sunday Photo: A view from 30,000 feet

Toby, the travel bug and ticking Egypt off my bucket list

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In the years BC (Before Children), Heather and I were keen travellers. We stood atop the top of […]

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September 9, 2014 A dad's life, Travel

Light at the end of the (tube) tunnel

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For a while after Kara was born, travelling anywhere further than the other side of Newbury with our […]

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February 3, 2014 A dad's life

Ellis Island (Thatcham branch)

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Okay, I’ll admit it, I’d make a terrible B&B owner. If, as former Prime Minister Harold Wilson so astutely […]

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September 23, 2013 Other stuff

A simpler life

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In my last post, I reflected on how relaxing a holiday far from the madding crowd can be. […]

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July 31, 2013 A dad's life, Travel

Far from the madding crowd

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I’ve written in the past about what it’s like to go on holiday without access to the internet […]

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July 30, 2013 A dad's life, Travel

Yesterday’s hell, today’s paradise, tomorrow’s nightmare

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In years gone by you couldn’t have paid me enough to persuade me to go on the kind […]

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September 10, 2011 Travel

Travel memories #5: Sydney Harbour, Australia

Where? Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, photographed from Mrs Macquarie’s Chair. When? August 1997. What? Two of the most […]

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September 2, 2011 Travel, Travel memories

Travel memories #4: Lucca, Italy

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Where? Lucca, in Tuscany in the north-west of Italy. When? 19th September 2005. What? In the ancient Roman […]

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August 5, 2011 Travel, Travel memories

Travel memories #3: Dim sum, Shanghai

Where? Old Chinese Quarter, Shanghai. When? 2nd November 2004. What? In the heart of old Shanghai shortly after […]

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May 3, 2011 Travel, Travel memories

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