John Burke's a-Musings

10 August 2006. The Island Star has brought us to Barcelona on our first ever visit to mainland Spain. The port is a mixture of industrial...

Thursday 30 May 1998. We had seen a number of white horses during the week but had not seen what is arguably the most famous one - the Uffi...

18 August 2001. We are still in Amsterdam. We have been exploring on our own for a while but are now joining the rest of the coach party. ...

18 August 2001. Our guide, Chris, has left us to our own devices for and hour or so and we try to make sense of our map and head off along ...

18 August 2001. If you have been following the Amsterdam weekend entries, you will know that we have just left a diamond house where I left...

These went through the scanner a bit ago too. Taken in 1967 these show me as a spotty 13 year old, voice just breaking, eyes starting to go...