John Burke's a-Musings

Thursday 8 August 2013. This is the second of two posts about our trip to Bergen - the first post dealt with the Bryggen UNESCO site and l...

9 Aug 2006. Wednesday morning finds us back in France, in Marseilles. Not having booked any tours, we left the Island Star for a bit of expl...

The scanning - as you may just have noticed - has slowed down a bit as I've been very busy at work and not at home all that much to do a...

Wednesday 29 May 1998. We awake in Cirencester to a cloudy but bright day with the sun threatening to come out. We are heading up throu...

Sunday 26 May 1998. We left Malmesbury behind and soon reached our next destination - the picturesque village of Castle Combe. They cal...

Thursday, 19 August 2010. We are back in James Bond territory again. In From Russia With Love our intrepid hero is taken by Kerim Bey, ...

As you drive into Blackpool on the main road from Preston, or if you leave the M55 motorway at the first Blackpool junction and turn right, ...