We reached the Sagamore Bridge that takes the road across the 17-mile long Cape Cod Canal running from Buzzard’s Bay in the south to Cape Cod Bay in the north, which since it opened in 1914 has effectively made Cape Cod an island, linked to the mainland by a rail and two road bridges. Continue reading Coffee in Nirvana
It’s a disgrace to admit it, I know, but until I came here I had never heard of Ronda, and this ignorance led me to believe it probably wasn’t worth visiting. How wrong I was. Continue reading Ronda discovered
I have had a very bad week. First I was told that I will be going on to insulin very soon, then I lost my wedding ring while out photographing at the Rocks of Solitude, then I was told that I was going to need an operation Continue reading Great start to the day
The sky was blue and clear and there was a bitterly cold wind in the Cape Cod air. We set off on a forlorn expedition in search of a woodcock before visiting the Wellfleet Oysterman’s house. Continue reading Six go mad near Truro
You can take the boy out of Glasgow, but you can’t take Glasgow out of the boy, says the boy from Bute. Continue reading Down memory lane
The Falls of Falloch is a rather impressive waterfall on the River Falloch about halfway between Crianlarich and Ardlui at the head of Loch Lomond in the heart of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. Continue reading River Falloch
This unnamed waterfall is a field run-off that cascades off the top of a 40ft cliff into the River North Esk as it passes through a narrow gorge about one mile to the south of the Rocks of Solitude. Continue reading River North Esk
The site of the 1998 International Exhibition, Expo 98, the Parque das Nações is home to a number of leisure facilities, a major train station, a shopping centre, restaurants, cafés, exhibition centres, concert halls, an oceanarium, a five-star hotel and more. Continue reading #ParqueDasNações
A first folio of a work by William Shakespeare was recently discovered at Mount Stuart House, a stately home that for one summer was my playground. Continue reading Black nights and bogles
Desperate to get out of the house and escape my computer screen, I headed up to breath in the fresh air at the Rocks of Solitude… and promptly lost my wedding ring. Continue reading Rocks of Solitude
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