Category: Festival
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Manchester – a tour, PRBs, and Festwich!
We have these wonderful friends – Steph is from Sheffield, and Derek is from Manchester. They live near us in New Zealand, and happened to be in Manchester at the same time as us, so offered to give us a tour of the city last Thursday arvo. I can highly…
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Going to Manchester, via Edinburgh!
Embarrassingly, for someone who used to live in Edinburgh, I had never climbed Arthur’s Seat – back in the day I was a very dedicated smoker and non-exerciser. I got all my exercise from dancing all night a couple of times a month and that was all I needed.
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Sheffield, Derby and York
So, our first week in Sheffield… we have four weeks here, neither of us had been here before, and we are looking after TWO dogs, so it was definitely a big unknown for us how we’d like it. Happily, we both really like Sheffield! It’s not a pretty city for…
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Plymouth in a heatwave
I’m going to try very hard to not complain about the heat because a) I know we are very lucky to have lots of sunshine, and b) it’s not stopped raining at home since I left; but suffice to say it’s HOT and the UK isn’t really set up for…
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The history of Chalke
We were heading to Chalke History Festival, which is officially my Most Favourite Thing Ever. It’s held on a farm near the village of Broad Chalke in Wiltshire, and proved a bit tricky to get to as my GPS wasn’t working very well. But in due course we made it…
The Wayfaring Path 