Martin McDowell's Blog

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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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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Tale prispevek je čisto zares in žal pokaže tudi razliko med veterino v Sloveniji in Veliki Britaniji. Klinika, v kateri delam, že nekaj časa išče nadomestilo za veterinarko, ki bo šla v kratkem na porodniški dopust. Objavljali smo oglase v veterinarskih oglasnikih, kot je npr. “Veterinary record” in imeli celo neko dekle na razgovoru a [...]

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My mother came over from Slovenia to visit me and I took the opportunity to see a bit more of Wales than I did till now. One of the things I wanted to try out was the Venture Jet speed boat trips. The one we took is called Wet’n’Wild where we did a whole lot [...]

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