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Budapest Fisherman’s Bastion and Castle Hill

I have only been in Budapest a week and already I have decided it is my second-favourite place on the planet!  This morning I ventured out and up to Budapest’s magnificent Castle Hill and the amazing Fisherman’s Bastion and have quickly put the photos into a video for you, as opposed to the usual…  It seemed fitting …

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Snow in the English Riviera?

You will have seen my posts of the beautiful marina in Torquay across the road from where I was living, bathed in glorious sunshine…  Or views from the lovely Grand Hotel where I would often sit and work, overlooking Torbay harbour… Well…  It has been ten years since Torquay in South Devon, England saw snow… but …

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Budapest update

Over the past couple of days, I haven’t ventured more than a couple of hundred feet from the hotel, but regardless they have been truly lovely days! I have never been one to have a ‘routine’ – be it morning or any other time – however, here I now do have a morning routine… Each …

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Budapest is magnificently beautiful…

After sleeping most of yesterday (and I still feel like I need another week of rest to finally be better – but am well on the way to recovery), today I went exploring through Budapest and was astounded at how incredibly magnificent it is! I wasn’t expecting anything this beautiful… …and there will be minimal …

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Swiss Alps Rail Journey – Zurich to Budapest (Part 1 of 2)

Words nor photos can express the majesty of this trip… but I will do my best with what follows of my eleven-hour rail trip through three countries… Starting the day leaving my beautiful hotel (where I really felt as though I was visiting family instead of staying in a hotel), I arrived early at the …

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Zurich is delightful!

After sleeping in and working from bed until noon (that did me the world of good!), I decided to venture out and explore… It was an overcast day, around 1°C / 33°F, but crisp and lovely.  My hotel is right in the middle of the city, across the road from the Limmat River that runs …

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Farewell England – Hello Switzerland

It has been quite the ordeal getting to this point, but I have finally left England yet again.  🙁 After being quite ill for almost four weeks, then packing up the house and putting everything into storage, I finally left beautiful Torquay on a magical sunny day… …drove five hours up to Liverpool to put …

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Sunny day exploring Cornwall…

St Michael’s Mount, the extraordinary Minack Theatre, Lands End and more…  These are the highlights from yet another glorious day exploring… Starting in our lovely manor as the sun was beaming in the beautiful bay window, Karen and I met up and the headed off… …and in case we were peckish, we had some Rudolph …

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