Happy Hogmanay
Driving home to Spike's parents for New Year.
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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 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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Dougie
May 13, 20222 min read
Those are 16 hours I'm never getting back
Word of advice ... Never -- I mean JAMAIS ... never get on a plane for 14 hours in the cheap seats with a tired, grumpy, Scottish...
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