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Tag: Holiday

16/07/2019 Eating and drinking / Visiting

Crete 2019 Days 14-15: Just desserts

Day 14: Stormy Thursday It was blowy and cloudy today which has been a welcome relief after the heat of

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16/07/2019 Eating and drinking / Visiting

Crete 2019 Days 12-13: Time slips

Day 12: Time slip Tuesday It reaches the point on beach-based holidays that the days seem to pass quickly and

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16/07/2019 Eating and drinking / Visiting

Crete 2019 Days 10-11: Getting my goat

Day 10: No chicken, dead end We were woken early by balcony chair scraping malakas, but as Siggy keeps telling

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16/07/2019 Eating and drinking / Visiting

Crete 2019 Days 7-8: Beach Daze

Day 7: Bees, Breeze and randy waiters I realised after finishing Bridget Christie’s A Book for Her on the beach

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16/07/2019 Eating and drinking / Visiting

Crete 2019 Day 6: Peaches, Jaws and celeb lookalikes

If the worst thing that happens this holiday is that Siggy keeps losing her purse underneath all the other stuff

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15/07/2019 Eating and drinking / Visiting

Crete 2019 Day 4: Myli Gorge

We got a taxi up into the hills to the top of Myli (or Mili/Milli) Gorge today. The walk down

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15/07/2019 Eating and drinking / Visiting

Crete 2019 Day 3: Logical octopus

It was very windy today but not so much that we couldn’t go down on the beach. The sea was

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15/07/2019 Eating and drinking / Visiting

Crete 2019 Day 2: Wears the soap

In the morning I realised that I had failed to pack a bar of soap. The local supermarket didn’t have

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15/07/2019 Eating and drinking / Visiting

Crete 2019 Day 1: A seeming eternity of travel

The drive to Birmingham airport was without incident. The queue for bag check-in was the shortest I’ve seen on my

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08/09/2017 Reading / Visiting

Skiathos 2017 – Day 8 – Coming home

I started reading The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal yesterday. I picked it off the shelf,

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