Archive | April, 2014

borders 1

We got the very best out of the Easter weekend in the Welsh Borders with Tim and Jennie at their cottage in the most isolated of valleys. We walked up to Offa’s dyke and along […]

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garden birds

Now that the sun is out and spring seems to be here I have finally got around to starting to fix various of my creatures which have got damaged over the years. It’s very satisfying. […]

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loose ends

Exploits in Istanbul 10.1 Last day mopping up – up the Galata tower, partly because it’s there, and it’s old and it has a great view, and also because it’s our local tower, and we […]

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ayran

Exploits in Istanbul 9.2 Our local kebab restaurant not only has very good kebabs and the entertainment of watching the cooks making the pide and other bready things, but it has proper ayran. Ayran is […]

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grand stations

Exploits in Istanbul 8.2 Project 2: to visit the two grand railway stations in Istanbul, the one European, the other Asian. The trains used to be put on a ferry and shipped across the Bosphorus, […]

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