John Burke's a-Musings

Join us for a nine-day cruise on the Norwegian Cruise Lines' ship NCL Pearl, starting at Trieste and ending at Athens, sailing down the ...

It's Tuesday 27 August 2024. The ship anchors off Mykonos and the sore leg that has been plaguing me all week is inflamed and angry (ang...

The year is 2002 and we are staying at a B&B in Great Yarmouth, using it as a base for touring around various places in Norfolk and Suff...

Thursday 22 August 2002. We visit Sandringham, the royal house in the year of the Queen's Golden Jubilee. After the last few days th...

Tuesday 20 August 2002. We were in Norfolk today and had actually been trying to find a mechanical music museum. Which we did. It was clos...

Monday 19 August 2002. Having left Lowestoft, we travelled round about two miles to Oulton Broad where our first job was to have a spot of l...