About 10 minutes after we were all back on board we set off up the Yangon River and after a few minutes we branched off left into the Twante Canal. This 35 km long canal was dug by the British…
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Yangon is a city like no other we have visited. There are security checks everywhere. At the entrance to every office block and major hotel there are always several security staff manning (and womanning) metal detecting arches and bag scanners. …
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Jet-lagged (as planned!) we arrived for breakfast ten minutes before closing time (not as planned)! But everyone here is so friendly and helpful. They just told us to take our time. The omelette man made us omelettes, the pancake girl…
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Well that’s a different beginning. The taxi arrived early and the sun is shining! Good start! The roof may still be leaking, the underfloor heating may still be running 24/7 and one of the gas fires may still not be…
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Tuesday saw us relocating to Whitley Bay. Angela and Bruce (the Bruce of several sideways comments on historical issues in earlier posts) had just returned from three weeks in Australia. Before they went they had foolishly insisted that we should…
NORTH COUNTRY 2018. 11
I’m not exactly sure where I got to – but I think it was Sunday (well, it WAS Sunday yesterday, anyway). Clearly there are no Sunday trading restrictions in Newcastle. The place was largely open – all day. The only…
NORTH COUNTRY 2018. 10
We are staying at the Lindon Hall Hotel at Longhorsley. Glenda used to come here with her father and their horses. That was long before it was turned into a hotel. So this is more nostalgia! The hotel is a …
NORTH COUNTRY 2018. 09
Alnwick, a market town of 8,000 residents (in 2001 rising to 8,116 by 2011) including the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and Harry Potter during term-time. Situated in beautiful country… … some 35 miles North of Newcastle, it was, traditionally,…
NORTH COUNTRY 2018. 08
Well that does it! Scotland is a mere 30 miles up the road from here. Here being Rothbury. This picture says it all. My bench in the sun (bottom left). Our car parked immediately behind the bench and “Aria” the…
NORTH COUNTRY 2018. 07
Monday – another lovely morning. Calm. Blue sky. Cool! We walked from Easby Abbey to Richmond via the “South” bank of the River Swale. Coffee at the old station (much developed) … … before visiting the town centre. The church…