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July 2022: First Time in Cornwall: Part 3

22 March 2023 RandR.scot England, Europe, UK

St Michael’s Mount Friday brought another solo day trip by train and also the achievement of another item ticked off on my personal ‘bucket list’. I visited Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy

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July 2022: Two-Centre Sweden: 1. Gothenburg

28 December 2022 RandR.scot Europe, Sweden

Journey and Arrival Our journey from London to Gothenburg had originally been booked as a short hop in British Airways’ Club Europe cabin. When the airline subsequently cancelled our flight,

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Thailand Contrasts (2022): Days 18-19: Modern Art & Homeward Bound

23 December 2022 RandR.scot Asia, Big Trip, Big Trip Diary Entry, Europe, Featured Flight, Scotland, Thailand, UK

Bangkok’s MOCA Our final day in Thailand began with the familiar routine of hotel breakfast and showers, followed by the last packing of the trip. The main sightseeing objective today

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Thailand Contrasts (2022): Day 17: One Night in Bangkok

20 December 2022 RandR.scot Asia, Big Trip, Big Trip Diary Entry, Thailand

Although largely dedicated to relocation, today still managed to be reasonably interesting and enjoyable. Breakfast was a little different and considerably more colourful than usual as the hotel was hosting

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Thailand Contrasts (2022): Day 12: Onwards to Chiang Mai

2 December 2022 RandR.scot Asia, Big Trip, Big Trip Diary Entry, Thailand

The journey north Today began when Bruce’s phone alarm went off at 0444 and mine followed at 0445. (He has a penchant for using non-standard times!) We both knew that

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Thailand Contrasts (2022): Days 6-7: An interlude in Leiden, then onwards to Phuket

7 November 2022 RandR.scot Asia, Big Trip, Big Trip Diary Entry, Europe, Featured Flight, Netherlands, Thailand

Leiden Yes, Day 6 and I was still in the Netherlands – but on track to travel this evening! I had my usual Hampton breakfast before showering, packing and checking

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Thailand Contrasts (2022): Days 3-5: Last few hours in Amsterdam … or so I thought!

7 November 2022 RandR.scot Big Trip, Big Trip Diary Entry, Europe, Netherlands

The reason why I’m treating this as a block of three days will become clear soon enough. Today started out well enough and initially ran as planned. After checking out

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Dec 2021/Jan 2022: New Year in Budapest

8 May 2022 RandR.scot Europe, Hungary

Background Bruce and I had been scheduled to bring in New Year in Germany, but about a week before Christmas the German government announced that it would be joining neighbouring

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California, Here We Come! (2021): Days 14&15: Miami Interlude and Return to Europe

10 April 2022 RandR.scot Big Trip, Big Trip Diary Entry, Europe, Featured Flight, France, North & Central America, USA

A few hours in downtown Miami I woke up after what felt like a short night, due to the combined effect of the 3hr time change the previous evening and

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California, Here We Come! (2021): Day 13: Transcon in (Some) Style

4 April 2022 RandR.scot Big Trip, Big Trip Diary Entry, North & Central America, USA

St Andrew’s Day brought the first steps in our homeward journey, initially with a short hop back down the west coast to LA, then with a transcontinental flight to Miami,

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California, Here We Come! (2021): Days 3&4: Our Outbound Flying-Fest

16 February 2022 RandR.scot Big Trip, Big Trip Diary Entry, Featured Flight, North & Central America, USA

London-Helsinki on Finnair Once again, we followed the recently established pattern of no pre-departure breakfast, due to our proximity to the airport. Catching the Piccadilly Line to the airport, we

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California, Here We Come! (2021): Day 2: And now, erm … back to the UK!

16 February 2022 RandR.scot Big Trip, Big Trip Diary Entry, England, Europe, UK

Schiphol-Heathrow Today started by following a similar approach to that used on Thursday: we left the hotel without eating, intending to have some form of breakfast in the lounge. In

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California, Here We Come! (2021): Day 1: Quick Visit to Amsterdam

16 February 2022 RandR.scot Big Trip, Big Trip Diary Entry, Europe, Netherlands

Heathrow-Schiphol The trip was now underway in earnest, and you join me as Bruce & I enter the so-called ‘First’ lounge at Heathrow Terminal 5, which in reality is for

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California, Here We Come! (2021): Diary Prologue

16 February 2022 RandR.scot Big Trip, Big Trip Diary Entry

As the first travelling day of this trip was purely a positioning exercise to London Heathrow, with no sightseeing component at all, I thought of it as ‘Day Zero’ rather

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September 2021: London

14 November 2021 RandR.scot England, Europe, UK

Arrival Less than three full days after the end of our whisky-themed road trip in Scotland, Bruce and I were travelling again from our respective homes in Bristol and Edinburgh,

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August 2021: Belfast

12 October 2021 RandR.scot Europe, Northern Ireland, UK

Introduction Belfast is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, one of two entities created in the 1921 partition of Ireland. Formed from six out of the nine traditional

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June 2021: London in Summer (Part 2)

8 August 2021 RandR.scot England, Europe, UK

Hotel 2: Conrad St James Our base for the second group of two nights was the elegant Conrad London St James, across the street from St James’s Park underground station.

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Featured Flight BA633 (ATH-LHR)

30 January 2021 RandR.scot Featured Flight

FLIGHT DATA for BA633 Date: 09 Oct 2020 Aircraft: Boeing 787-8 ‘Dreamliner’ (G-STBH) From: Athens (ATH) To: London Heathrow (LHR) Scheduled departure: 1955 (EEST) Actual departure: 1947 Scheduled arrival: 2145

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