Category: UK Travels 2025
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New Year Break We left Devon and drove across country to Kent, stopping on the way to see Rosemary. She recently moved to a new place, so we were glad to break the journey and see her new home. After a delicious fish pie lunch, we had a couple of hours left in the drive…
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Christmas 2025 It’s a long way from Wensleydale to Devon, so we were happy to break our journey with a stop in St Albans and a chance to have dinner with cousin Peter and his wife Alla. The next morning, we set off on the M25 London orbital, and then eventually we were on the…
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The Run Up to Christmas December 2025 After a soggy stay in the Lake District, and after being away for three weeks, I was happy to be home in Hawes in our warm house with comfy chairs and excellent bathrooms. The “run-up” to Christmas starts in November (and is ever earlier) in this country. There…
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November 8 to 14 Change day started out well enough. I had made a good start on preparations (and even part loaded the car) the day before. I was out of the driveway well before 10am. A certain amount of wrestling with the two routings on my phone and the car was required, so it…
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November 1st to 7th The drive across country from North Norfolk was absolutely beautiful. So few travellers experience crossing England from east to west (or the other way), because “all roads lead to London”. Really, they do, historically, and so do all the main train lines. Tourists visit London (of course they do, regardless of…
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October 25th to November 1st It was a glorious morning for a drive as I set off eastbound from our home in Hawes. The sun is low in the sky at this time of year, and it lights up the hillsides and the landscape, as well as creating beautiful long shadows. Cattle were grazing in…
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October 11th to 18th, 2025 It was an uneventful drive from our home in Wensleydale, Yorkshire, to Beadnell, Northumberland. I had plans to drive cross country, rather than taking the motorway route, but the GPS (Satnav for our English friends) in the Freelander did not cooperate. Just as well, the drive took only 3 hours,…
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