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Dougie
May 30, 20226 min read
In the Second City of the Empire
Glasgow is the city in which I was born. When people ask, "where are you from?" I usually answer "Glasgow" although the fact is I left...
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Dougie
May 29, 20226 min read
The Journey Home ... delayed by a deer on the tracks
The promenade at Weymouth is a peaceful place at seven o'clock on a Sunday morning. The only sounds are those of the natural world. The...
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Dougie
May 28, 20223 min read
(Not too) Far from the Madding Crowd
We are still in Hardy Country -- in a place where his best loved book collides with John Schlesinger's film. A day when 1874 (Thomas...
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Dougie
May 27, 20225 min read
High Tea (and a less than stellar poem) in Hardy Country
We were in need of a good location. Spike had arranged to meet her father's sister, Anne, and her husband, Jeff, somewhere in Weymouth....
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Dougie
May 26, 20225 min read
Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside ...
Sometimes the simplest delights of a long holiday are found in the most unexpected places. This morning that turned out to be adjacent...
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Dougie
May 25, 20222 min read
A different sort of England
After fabulous pastries in the cute café in Pimlico we skipped yesterday, we left London today. Our final hour in the Big Smoke was spent...
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Dougie
May 24, 20224 min read
Let them eat cake
Marie Antionette never said the words for which she is most famous. And according to some, the beheaded Queen may not even have said,...
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Dougie
May 23, 20223 min read
There are no galleries in this space.
No galleries today. We are simply meeting people. Other people. Just not inside any great cultural institution (unless we're talking...
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Dougie
May 22, 20224 min read
A Gallery Too Far ...?
To paraphrase the 1977 Second World War "blockbuster" movie, A Bridge Too Far starring Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins and...
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Dougie
May 21, 20223 min read
Coming at the world through its side doors
We had no plans for today. And after a slow start (which sometimes happens with us quadriplegics) we made it out of the hotel with only...
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Dougie
May 20, 20223 min read
Possession is nine-tenths of ownership.
We visited the British Museum today (for the first time in my life -- strangely enough, given I used to work less than half a mile distant...
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Dougie
May 19, 20223 min read
London at it's very best
I worked in London for three years, back in the early 1980s. I was fortunate to become National Secretary of the National Union of...
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Dougie
May 19, 20226 min read
Mountain or mole hill?
I am a comparatively experienced wheelchair traveller. I broke my neck in June1984. I was discharged from hospital ten months later in...
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Dougie
May 18, 20221 min read
À Londres
Aujourd'hui nous quittons Paris. Je suis désolé. Mais chaque nuage a une doublure argentée. Nous serons de retour dans quelques semaines...
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Dougie
May 17, 20223 min read
We bought a hat
I do not know when I began to develop the bald spot on the top of my head. I can tell you, however, when I first noticed. We were in...
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Dougie
May 16, 20222 min read
The hubris of men
We made our way to the summit of the butte Montmartre, drawn by the remarkable Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, sitting atop the...
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Dougie
May 16, 20222 min read
Where [did] you go to my lovely?
Mark Twain once wrote: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, .... Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and...
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Dougie
May 15, 20222 min read
Intrepid explorers ... we are not!
Today we rise to our first real challenge ... cross the city by train, transfer to the suburban tram, find the market ... buy the purse....
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Dougie
May 14, 20223 min read
Bienvenue a Paris
What has it been? Forty hours or thereabouts since Spike loaded the car, said her goodbyes to Thistle the cat, and we set off on our...
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Dougie
May 14, 20223 min read
Quand à Paris ...
... eat bread n cheese n croissant n petit pain au chocolate n fruit salad with tart yogurt --- très acidulé -- n drink café au lait...
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