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Holiday pics

Sunday, September 14, 2008

As a wrap up of posts from our recent holiday in Wales and North York Moor, here is a link to the picture collection page on Flickr.

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Snowdon

Sunday, September 14, 2008

One of the aims of our holiday to Wales/North York Moor was to do some walking. I used to do this quite a bit when I was younger, but now I’m older, wider and far less fit, so the chances of walking up Snowdon was approaching zero.
Fortunately, the fine people of Wales built a steam [...]

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The Prisoner

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Before we left for Wales, my boss’ boss asked me if we’d ever been to Portmeirion. I said that I hadn’t but had heard of this strange place and made a note to visit.
Those of you in your fifth decade or more will know this is where The Prisoner was filmed, a cult TV show [...]

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Seiont Manor

Sunday, September 14, 2008

We’ve been back a whole week from holiday but haven’t had much time for posting, so catching up :-) 
In North Wales we stayed at Seoint Manor Hotel, and I wrote a bit about it here. 
It’s a fair trek from East London, so  we travelled part way on the Friday night, stopping at some random motel [...]

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iPhone in Wales

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

We’re in Snowdonia (mostly) this week and whilst I thought I’d blog about the scenery, mountains, sheep etc when I get back, I would like mention the iPhone experience now.
It’s pants.
One out of five bars at best from O2. Never seen EDGE (I don’t have 3G but that’s probably rubbish too).
Worse though [...]

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