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Wet and wild Scotland, a four day adventure

As sure as death and taxes is rain in Scotland, and lots of it.  My obsessive checking of the forecast was, it turns out, a pointless waste of time.  The forecast changed from sunshine to showers roughly every four hours.  In fact the word ‘changeable’ couldn’t be bandied about anymore, I was more certain to […]

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Catching my breath. A weekend in Folkestone

According to Shepway County Council, Folkestone averages over 2000 hours of sunshine a year making it one of the sunniest places in Britain; not bad for a little seaside town just an hour fast train from London. I didn’t know the sunshine fact before booking, I just knew it needed a reasonably priced and timed […]

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