John Burke's a-Musings

Another re-creation from my lost Nostalgia web pages. I was born in 1954 in the bedroom of a semi-detached house in Rochdale, Lancashire. M...

It's been years since we did it. Driving through the famous Blackpool Illuminations, that is. Last night I was dying to get out of the ...

Sunday, 22 August 2010. It's our last port of call. We wake up in Rhodes, moored against the dock and having decided that we are just ...

Saturday, 21 August 2010. The coach leaves St John's Basilica and takes us to a small village called Sirince, pronounced Seh-RIN-jay . ...

This blog entry re-creates a page from my now defunct Nostalgia web site which I've been saying for ages I should transfer to here and w...

Saturday, 21 August 2010. The Thomson Celebration is in Kusadasi, Turkey. The main tour of the day will be going to the ancient city of Eph...

Friday, 20 August 2010. The Thomson Celebration spends another day at sea. We spend the day reading. Er... I mean we pound ten times arou...