Tuesday, November 18, 2025

'travelling light' – the full and final set in my suite of social media blogs

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Today I launch 'travelling light', a final, fifth blog to add to my suite of four blogs on Blogger. For 16 years I published almost ...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Travelling light – La Belle France: Paris, Lyon and Provence 2018

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Having largely, though not completely, abandoned the world of work, my fellow traveller and I decided to make the most of the opportunity to...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Travelling light – along the Rhine and beyond 2024

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Travel during the global pandemic had become an artform. After our first ever cruise, from London to Bergen, via North Cape, way above the A...

Travelling light – the largest islands in the Pacific 2023

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I’ve been to New Zealand only twice – once on a brief stop in Auckland on the way to Tahiti in 2014 and then on a longer trip around the Nor...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

All aboard – travelling with the descendants of the Vikings

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Once I had never been on a cruise and never imagined I would ever go on a cruise. That all changed when I visited Scotland in 2017. I became...
Sunday, May 12, 2024

Travelling light – Into Northern seas: UK, Norway, Denmark and Germany 2019

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Neither I nor my fellow traveller had been on a cruise before, but suddenly we were sailing from London to Bergen, retracing the steps of t...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Travelling light – Journey to the North Country: Scotland and Northern England 2017

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Our trip to Scotland and Northern England in 2017 was our first serious international foray in eleven years – trips in our own backyard, to ...