• Leicester

    Leicester

    Back in December, a friend of mine—the same one who suggested the trip to the West Wycombe caves—suggested a trip to follow in the last footsteps of a king.  (They have half the good…

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  • Blog break

    Blog break

    This week I’m up north with my family, which means I should have made the blog post during the week, because I knew I wouldn’t have chance at the weekend.  Unfortunately I didn’t have…

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  • London: Kew Gardens

    London: Kew Gardens

    A trip to London again, I know—and this one’s to a fairly standard tourist attraction too, the Royal Botanic Gardens in leafy Kew, so not really the sort of thing I blog about.  But…

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  • West Wycombe

    West Wycombe

    Last week I told you about High Wycombe, which was the first time when writing this that I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to finish a post, and had to resort…

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  • High Wycombe

    High Wycombe

    Another week, another commuter town—which I went to a year ago today, so this is going to be a challenge to see how much I can remember.  This one does actually have a genuinely…

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  • Milton Keynes

    Milton Keynes

    Yeah, so normally I write these to try and persuade you to actually go to these places, but let’s face it, Milton Keynes has a reputation as a place not just where there’s nothing…

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