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London visit – day 4 of 4

December 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips and outings

Not feeling very well in the morning of the last day, this cold has been getting the better of me and running around London does not help it getting any better. Drugging-up with anti-inflammatories not helped either. First port of call was the London eye I booked the previous day on-line. Looks amazing when standing [...]

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Schmap-ing me

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Leisure, Trips and outings

I received a mail today from an on-line publisher of digital travel guides called Schmap that my photo of Bristol Cathedral was chosen to be included in the fifth edition of the Schmap Bristol Guide. I received an e-mail a while ago saying that the photo was short-listed for it and I didn’t think my [...]

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Cooler turned off

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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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No smoking, please

August 5th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Image via Wikipedia Flash movie is shown on www.smokingbanwales.co.uk I see that Slovenia is quite behind the smoking ban that is in the process of being inforced across the EU. I arrived in Wales on the 7th of April and that was the weekend, when the ban started here. There was no big deal, however [...]

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