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Going home is getting real
The distance between the Glam Hotel Milano and the entrance to Milano Centrale is two hundred and sixty metres. I am wearing a most...
Dougie
Jun 22, 20223 min read
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Paris Part Deux -- Not another art gallery
When we decided to cross Europe by many trains I went straight to the very best web site in the whole Internet -- without a doubt -- if...
Dougie
Jun 6, 20221 min read
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Tell me why. I don't like Mondays.
We strolled by the Seine. How hard could our Monday be? We followed the river for four kilometres or so before entering le Jardin des...
Dougie
Jun 6, 20224 min read
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The curse of the east coast mainline strikes again
Taking the train between Edinburgh Waverley and London King's Cross has been one of my favourite journeys since my first trip in the late...
Dougie
Jun 5, 20225 min read
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À Londres
Aujourd'hui nous quittons Paris. Je suis désolé. Mais chaque nuage a une doublure argentée. Nous serons de retour dans quelques semaines...
Dougie
May 18, 20221 min read
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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...
Dougie
May 17, 20223 min read
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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...
Dougie
May 16, 20222 min read
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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...
Dougie
May 16, 20222 min read
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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....
Dougie
May 15, 20222 min read
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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...
Dougie
May 14, 20223 min read
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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...
Dougie
May 14, 20223 min read
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It's been 6 long years
And so it begins. After six long years ... a new job (which is not so new now) and bush fires and more than two years of a pandemic that...
Dougie
May 12, 20223 min read
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