weekend break

Presunto I presume! Fish, Fado, & Ham – 2 nights in Lisbon

(Scroll down for the Fado video) What to see on a short trip to Lisbon? Most cities have a grand hierarchy of sights – from the oldest and best preserved monuments through a variety of museums and galleries to the busy shopping and entertainment areas. For Lisbon however the hierarchy was flattened by a big …

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Wrecks challenge the TGO ers on Shelf Moor Bleaklow

The Snake Pass Inn is in an excellent location between two of the highest masses in the Peak District – namely Kinder and Bleakhow. The room decor is bizarre, but people aren’t coming here a 4 star hotel experience.    Several of my companions in fact decided to forego the room experience altogether and camped …

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Marseilles in October

This in part follows from an earlier discussion about WordPress vs Blogger.  This article was created in WordPress, and exported. Blogger could not import the file until it had been processed by WordPress2Blogger.com. My early conclusion is that Blogger may be safer and more flexible:- as you can see below the picture captions did not …

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