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2009
Shakespeare said that The Golden age is before us, not behind us! That was good enough for me so this year we are off to Thailand. For one reason and another this trip was only for four of us (two couples), rather than the normal group of eight. For my wife and I, ...
2006
Sri Lanka 2006 A cup of tea ‘reveals’ you – a quote from a close friend of mine who laid great store in a cup of Ceylon tea. For the record he was aware that it should have been ‘revives’, not ‘reveals’. I took the group at their word when the asked what was happen ...
2012 September – England reunion
HMS CONWAY 1859 – 1974 Television and the cinema industry are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of the first James Bond film (Dr. No) in 1962. I can remember seeing Dr No at the pictures in Falmouth, which was playing to packed houses. The reason that I was in Falmouth was to join ...
2007
A war by any other name . . . . . . Vietnam – 2007 As a group we’d ‘done’ Malaysia in 2005 and Sri Lanka in 2006, with a few days in Malaysia before and after our visit to Sri Lanka. So when I was asked ‘Where next?’ I was reading ‘Brighton Rock’ by ...
2005
“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” — Mark Twain Marvellous Malaysia – 2005 Our 2004 holiday had been our first holiday in fifteen years. I was made redundant in 1995, after which I started my own company, ...
2004
2004 Rudyard Kipling once said that – The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it – how true was his advice for Maureen & I when we began our DIY travelling in retirement. Having spent time at sea in my teens and early twenties I had often promised Maureen that one ...
HMS Conway
Towards the end of my time at school the headmaster asked if anyone wanted to try for a scholarship to ‘HMS Conway’. www.hmsconway.org This would require a weekend away at HMS Conway’s shore based establishment, in North Wales, for interviews and an examinations. My parents agreed, and some weeks later I travelled by train to ...
