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Not often that you have a blazing log fire when the temperature is 25 degrees but that is the custom in chalice well when I and Françoise went to join the celebration of Lammas which is to do with the first harvests. I found the numbers were considerably lower then last time but in a way that was a relief and I had one or two meaningful conversations. One was with a German who was camping in...

One of the best measures of whether the tourist season has begun are for some unknown reason the number of Japanese tourists.  We decided to take the bus instead of driving and arrived about 11 am  whereupon we swiftly repaired to the newly refurbished Wetherspoons and had a hot drink . This establishment has been closed for the last month and what they have done apart from some new general...

And so after and all too brief sojourn in London we return. I always leave home base much earlier than I need to so we left our place in Selsdon which is somewhat south of East Croydon over two hours before the train's scheduled departure. I take the view that if you leave earlier then you need to, if anything goes wrong along the way it normally rights itself after a period of time so there's...

I chose the bus leaving from Bristol at 13.00 to give us plenty of time to rise at a leisurely rate to catch the 172 to Bristol and have a decent breakfast. You will find a community cafe just outside Bristol bus station. What is not obvious is that it is part of a building that was a priory and has a rich history going back a few centuries. Some people working at the cafe have learning...

Also see Notes on a visit to Norfolk Once a Yorkshire man, always a Yorkshire man? Maybe it is because I was born in Yorkshire but I'm always on the lookout for a bargain and back in October I spotted in the Midsomer Journal a deal for a five-day holiday in Great Yarmouth which for non UK readers is about as east as you can get in the United Kingdom. The price for four nights/five days including...