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Notre-Dame de Lorette WW1 military graves
Europe, History

Lest We Forget: Notre-Dame de Lorette WW1 Military Cemetary

July 20, 2014 by Zoe Dawes 2 Comments
The plaque on the simple cross tells a tragic tale.  Two men sharing the same surname, both killed in war, but 25 years apart. Father and son crosses at Notre-Dame de Lorette M de Sars senior died in World War One in 1915.  His son Edmond was killed in 1940 in...
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Newlands Valley in the Lake District - photo Peter Henry
Accommodation, Cumbria, Holiday

‘My Top 5 Lake District Treasures’ by Sally Fielding

July 15, 2014 by Guest Author 9 Comments
In this guest post, Sally Fielding, owner of family-run Sally’s Cottages, shares some of her favourite, and less known, places in the Lake District in Cumbria. Middle Row Cottage I’ve lived in the Lake District my whole life and I’ve discovered some truly memorable places. Many of these aren’t mentioned...
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Adventure, Transport, UK

Flying high over England in the KLM Dakota DC-3

July 13, 2014 by Zoe Dawes 4 Comments
The drone of the engines got louder as we accelerated along the runway, fields and trees flashing past the window as we gracefully lifted up into the clouded, sun-streaked skies above Durham Tees Valley Airport. Dakota DC3 take off The clicking of cameras and animated chatter ricocheted though the cabin as...
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Mabel the dog on a canal boat holiday
Accommodation, Holiday, UK

The simple pleasures of a canal boat holiday

July 1, 2014 by Guest Author 5 Comments
Musician Stan Cullimore, former member of the 80’s band The Housemartins, shares his memories of a  recent boating holiday on one of England’s many charming canals. This morning I got out of bed, opened the curtains and looked out of the window. First thing I saw was a man on...
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Transport, UK, Writing

Adlestrop; so much more than just a name

June 24, 2014 by Zoe Dawes 1 Comment
On the 24th June, 1914 a train pulled into a small station in the heart of the Cotswolds.   Gazing out of the window was a young man and his wife on the way to visit their friend, American poet Robert Frost.  Gazing out of the window, Edward Thomas saw...
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Blog trip, Europe, Food & Drink

3 great reasons to travel with ‘My Ferry Link’ to France

June 14, 2014 by Zoe Dawes 10 Comments
“How would you like your steak, Madame?”  Now that is not a question you might expect to be asked on a ferry.  But on a recent return trip from Dover to Calais with My Ferry Link I discovered that the French connection goes further than the flag flying proudly from the...
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Postman Pat and author John Cunliffe in Kendal Cumbria - photo Zoe Dawes
Culture, Cumbria, QT Review

Postman Pat returns home to Kendal

June 3, 2014 by Zoe Dawes 5 Comments
OK, I’d better fess up straight away. I was at the Gala Premiere of  ‘Postman Pat: The Movie’ at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, in the midst of a horde of tiny tots straining their little necks to get a glimpse of an enormous figure in a (glitzy?) blue uniform...
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