Martin McDowell's Blog

Google Maps has recently updated the satellite photos covering Wales, Pembrokeshire in particular. I am not sure how other areas were covered before but there is a definite resolution increase in the photos in south west Wales. The enhanced photos were first available on Google Earth and soon after that on the web edition – [...]

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Sicer nisem kakšen veliki navijač nogometa, niti ne navijam kaj hudo za nogometni klub rodnega Portsmoutha, vem pa, da so v mojem rodnem kraju verjetno zdajle kar ekstatični ob zmagi 1:0 nad Cardiffom. Portsmouth je tako uspel osvojiti svoj sicer že drugi naslov pokala FA. Čestitke

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Včeraj sem po kakem mesecu spet tankal avto. Vmes se je odvil štrajk delavcev na naftni predelovalnici Ineos v Grangemouth-u in očitno nisem bil ravno psihično pripravljen na ceno, ki jo bom moral plačati. Dragi moji, tank bencina me je stal 70 funtov!! To je okoli 88 evrov. To pa kar že malo boli. Še [...]

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A very well known bilingual road signSomebody seems to have turned off the cooler in Wales, we went from temperatures in the lower teens to 20 and 22 in just a week. Its hot enough to only go about in short sleeves and I guess shorter trousers are just round the corner. I was even [...]

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Sprva niti nisem imel kake posebne želje sodelovati pri volitvah, me je pa kar malo matral firbec in tudi malo sem hotel sodelovati pri odločanju, ker se mi zdi, da tukaj ljudi politika veliko manj zanima, kot v Sloveniji. Ja, ne morem drugega rečt, kot Ich bin ein Waliser! Malo se mi zdi čudno, da [...]

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