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Monday, September 16, 2024
Having spent every other day for the last four weeks in the gym I assumed that I would be ready for a hike up the highest mountain in England & Wales. Imagine then my dismay as I was passed by people cycling up the steep slopes and others at least...
I've grown up with America... I guess we all have. I remember Super Hero comics fresh from the indoor market stall in my birth town of Glossop, or from a local newsagent during our regular holidays in Blackpool. That sweet 'bubble gum' smell... I always loved the mysterious adverts...

In Asda at Tilbury

In Asda at Tilbury at Asda in Tilbury, Essex, England. One steps through a dog end fag butted foot bath by the electronic sliding doors into a vaped haze decompression chamber. Here the multi~ national grocer must take note in an on~time~food~chain~management kind of way the difference between instrumentation and orchestration how cauliflowers ploughed back into...
There is a big note in my journal which says the following: NEVER EVER EVER IGNORE A NOTICE ON A WEBSITE THAT RECOMMENDS SEAT RESERVATION ON A TRAIN. I got the 10.45 train from Berlin to Prague, EC175, and it was packed. The train was long but it seemed like...

The Final Destination: Munich

My train was leaving at 10.14 the next day, the RJ60 and I managed to get a tram to the station. Before I had left, I had updated my Facebook status to say that I was looking forward to going home. Interrailling had been exciting, incredible and amazing but I was...

My adventures in Ghana

Back in the early winter Holly submitted a plea for support on Dorset Eye to help fund her visit to Ghana. The project was to help to renovate a primary school. Well she made it and here is some detail of her time there.   What I learnt and achieved and expectations and...

Peering Through My Fringe

Long train journeys can cause the mind to suggest the strangest of boredom avoidance activities; returning from the Edinburgh Fringe I brainstormed my way through a number of bad punning titles for this reportage. The worst I came up with is the one you see.  On the way up...
Highway improvement work is continuing in Gillingham as part of the multi-million-pound transport overhaul in the town. Le Neubourg Way Following night work to resurface Le Neubourg Way at the end of August, the new Waitrose Junction has been commissioned. Vegetation The project team has been working with the council’s Natural Environment Team...
In April 2016, Jess Shanahan drove 2,500 miles across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland in an electric car – through cities, villages, national parks and more. Here, Jess shares her experiences and encounters of driving Route 57, the Great British & Irish Road Trip. The Dorset AONB was where...

Europe by Train 2012: Amsterdam

I decided to do an Interrailling trip after many conversations with people who’d done it and had an amazing time.  They had both done it around ten years ago in their twenties; one chap had done a trip around Europe in ten weeks with a large group of University friends...