John Burke's a-Musings

Monday 14 August 2000. We are startled awake on the first morning of our stay in Austria. Is it an avalanche? Is it the jangle of cowbells ...

Tuesday 29 August 2023. We have no excursion today as it's Andrew's day off so we have a free day in Sidmouth. We walk (slowly!)...

Friday 9 August 1996. We left Tintagel and a few miles away we came to Boscastle where we had tea. We looked in vain for the real cottag...

Sunday 30 May 1999. After Versailles, the coach took us back to the hotel where we thankfully changed out of our wet clothes and got ready q...

Saturday 29 May 1999. We are in Paris for the weekend on a Leger Coach trip. Having left the Louvre, we drove into the Students' or...

Saturday 7 December 2019. The third part of today's excursion, after the Rhine cruise and Boppard, is Koblenz. It's mid afternoo...