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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: 2. Stockholm

6 January 2023 RandR.scot Europe, Sweden

Journey and Arrival Our rail transfer between Sweden’s second city and its capital took just over three hours. City Hall – Gamla Stan The following day, having arrived at City

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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 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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England Grand Tour (2021): Day 4: All Change!

29 June 2021 RandR.scot Big Trip, Big Trip Diary Entry, England, Europe, UK

I’m flying – I remember this! We had our Covid-style Holiday Inn Express breakfast, then packed, checked out and caught a Tyne & Wear Metro train to Newcastle Airport. Today

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October 2020: Northern Portugal (Part 1): Arrival & Day Trip to Braga

3 February 2021 RandR.scot Europe, Portugal

Arrival Less than a week after getting back from Greece, it was nice to be off again, making hay while the sun was shining in this year of travel washout.

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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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