Loves beautiful places and the freedom to explore them. Hates hassle and stress
Finchampstead, England
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Photos that don't look real but are - thread 🧵
1. Cranberry harvest by Kristina Makeeva
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Places on Earth that don't look real - thread 🧵
1. Namibia, where the desert meets the ocean
Ok, #TravelTribe, help me out: where is a good place in Europe with nice scenery to spend a week in mid-July that will be neither too hot nor too crowded? Preferably insect free, so that probably rules out Scotland
Eighteenth century aristos on the grand tour must have endured quite a lot of toil and discomfort simply to get to their destinations, but is that so different from twenty-first century travellers having to endure the slog of earning the funds to travel?
Discuss…
I love Yorkshire. I could go there every year. In fact, I have been there every year for the last 3 years, and am already planning next year’s trip!
On #YorkshireDay, this lovely railway poster of the Yorkshire Dales by Ladybird artist #RonaldLampitt
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We have waited until today to harvest our first ever attempt at growing carrots, in containers in our garden. Merry Christmas everyone!
Lots of animal encounters on our walk yesterday evening: as well as these, no fewer than 14 deer (a new record for us) and 8 llamas, the latter being a surprise as we had been expecting alpacas
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Cracking start to the after-dinner walking season (now the clocks have gone forward): we spotted a herd of 11 roe deer, within a mile and a half from home. I don’t think we saw more than half a dozen together during the whole of last year
On St Patrick’s Day 13 years ago I was in The Maldives, 9 years ago I was in Franschhoek, 7 years ago: skiing at Whistler, 3 years ago we arrived in Perth, Western Australia, and a year ago we were in Iceland
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Just as well I managed to go to Iceland this time last year, rather than this!
(Ignoring the fact that I wouldn’t be able to travel right now due to the pandemic.)
"It looks like we are entering the next turbulent period."
South-west Iceland is shaking – and may be about to erupt - Dave McGarvie:
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I know some people are opposed to vaccine certification for ideological reasons, but they are already in use in some parts of the world for Yellow Fever, for example. If having a certificate after I am vaccinated against COVID means I can travel again, then bring it on!
It's hoped the system would be live by the end of March telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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Really quite impressed with the @gameofkittens card game I was given as a Christmas present: good fun with just the 2 of us, and I would hazard a guess that it would be better still with 4. I just hope I don’t have to wait too many weeks (months?) to find out!
So, 2020, not exactly a great year for travel. We had booked trips to Madeira, Scotland (x2), Corfu, Austria, Jersey and the Western Cape, all of which were cancelled or rearranged for next year. Still, there were some highlights...
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November 2020: locked down mostly at home, but we did get to Windsor, which we also visited in June and August (including going to the Castle itself)
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