London to Brighton

Today I cycled 65 miles to Brighton by bike. <This was the beginning. This was the end> In between was a lovely sunny day, an insane tea and cake stop at ‘Fanny’s farm shop’ (see picture on right), some serious pain, and a huge feeling of achievement at the end. I learnt not to carry [...]

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Ow

Random posting – a cactus I met in Marrakech.

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Brussels

It has taken me a little while to get round to writing this, but here is a little post about our recent trip to Brussels for Him Indoors‘ birthday. We chose Brussels because they have toast and chips shops, which is pretty exciting. It is a very friendly city – everyone was kind to us [...]

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New Year’s Day

I’ve realised that we are living in a unique age. I don’t know how failed to notice this before, but there is only one year left, until the year 3000, when you can make glasses out of the ’0′s in the year for New Year’s Eve parties. How have I missed this for 8 years?! [...]

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Marrakech…

…is an amazing, crazy city. I spent the first day fearing for my life as we were pushed aside by countless mopeds and donkey carts, only to wander blindly into the arms of enthusiastic shop keepers herding us into the souqs. Having said that, once I got over the initial culture shock I really loved [...]

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