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The Peak District – Day 4

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We are now back home after stopping off at Ashbourne, an old Derbyshire market town, for an hour. This is the view along Saint John’s Street. and this is the Market Place. So now you’ve had a quick tour of Ashbourne. The journey back was pretty straight forward and we can’t wait to go back. [...]

The Peak District – Day 3

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The day dawned bright and sunny – but not for long. The cloud soon blotted out the sun although it was still bright. We drove the few miles to Wetton Mill in the Manifold Valley which meant going over the border from Derbyshire and into Staffordshire although there was little difference in the countryside. We [...]

The Peak District – Day 2

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We had booked 2 nights in the Biggin Hall Hotel but first thing this morning we decided to extend our stay by another night so now we have all today, all tomorrow and part of Wednesday here. This morning we walked out of the hotel along the road for a short way and took the [...]

Peak of perfection

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Yesterday morning we decided that we needed a short walking break in some beautiful countryside so I managed to book two nights at Biggin Hall in the Derbyshire Peak District. This morning we were at home but by lunchtime we were in Derbyshire. This afternoon we walked from the hotel to the village of Hartington. [...]

Trans-Atlantic friends

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Last friday we had arranged to meet an American couple, who were staying in London, at our local station at around 10:00 AM in order to take them round some of our local places of interest. Joe and Carolyn were from Oregon and the local countryside here reminded them somewhat of home. It was their [...]

A quick visit

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On Thursday last I visited Audley End House near Saffron Walden in Essex as I mentioned in a previous post. This was just to have a quick look round to see what I could photograph when we make our ‘proper’ trip. One interesting feature of the trip was that I used my new GPS navigation [...]

Lavenham again

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We are now back from our trip to Lavenham and you may have noticed the absence of a blow by blow account. The hotel did have free wireless broadband available to guests but, as happened in Norwich, it wasn't working properly and so I couldn't use it. It was still out of order when we [...]