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A COUPLE of days away on Devon’s south coast seemed the ideal punctuation mark separating summer from autumn – except, of course, the weather had other ideas. Despite this having been a year marked by drought, heavy rain has become the recent hallmark of my travels and my brief stay in the lovely coastal village … Continue reading
THE historic town of Warwick was my choice for a stopover on my way home from the north-east. Rather like Stratford-upon-Avon, where I had stayed on my journey north, Warwick is an attractive little town made famous by one icon: for Stratford it was Shakespeare, for Warwick it is its formidable castle. Developed from an … Continue reading
A DAY trip into Newcastle was the last outing of my time in England’s north-east. As expected, it could hardly have been a greater contrast to all my previous sightseeing exploits. Where Durham had been classy and captivating and earlier outings had revealed Northumberland’s sometimes wild landscape and dramatic coastline, Newcastle was full-on urban, noisy … Continue reading
Dorset Daze 