John Burke's a-Musings

Friday 23 August 2024. The approach to the port is up the most southerly fjord in Europe and we were already moored by the time we got out o...

St Mary's church at Shrewsbury in Shropshire is an ancient church but now a redundant one - which means it is no longer used for Christi...

Thursday 22 February 1996. Thursday was as rainy as Wednesday had been sunny. But never mind, we make the most of it and visit Corfe Castle,...

Thursday 19 October 2017. It's our final port of call for the Adriatic Explorer cruise before Thomson Dream returns to Corfu where we ...

Monday 1 September 2014. We got up early to watch the Thomson Majesty pull elegantly into the port of Trapani in Sicily. Thomson Dream was...

More black and whites from 1983. This time our topic is the Devil's Bridge at Kirby Lonsdale. The 14th century bridge has a legend th...