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Category: 02.Old Blighty
Travel anecdotes from the Home Front.
Bob Dylan – Phoenix Festival, England, 1995.
Bob Dylan – Phoenix Festival, England, 1995
Royal Air Force Museum – Cosford
Living with Clive
Living With Clive
Book Quote: Stuart Maconie, A Northern Lad and Proud of it
My Pretty Peggy Sue
(A USA meets the UK travel tale)
EXTRACT: ….. An hour later we were stood outside one of Peggy’s favourite refreshment spots and it soon became apparent why.
Unsuitably dressed in mufti, we entered the foyer of the Hilton International hotel.
We caught the lift up to a cafeteria area and took our seats by a window that looked down onto the streets below. Now, this wasn’t something as low lying as say the fifth floor. It was more like the forty-fifth. The views across the Seattle skyline, with all its futuristic illuminations was truly spectacular. It was the daddy of all views, gazing down onto just about every other building in the city and out across the straits of the Puget Sound. Our tour was reaching its end and we had the most impressive seats in the metropolis.
“Oh, the best is yet to come,” Peggy said. Although, I couldn’t see how it could get any more spectacular than this. Then we heard a distant roar….
My Beating Heart – An Orkney Travel Tale
EXTRACT: Orkney Island, Scotland …..The shoreline was now strewn with rubbish; not just newspapers and carrier bags, but rusting tin drums and petrol containers. I walked for a further mile along this stretch, hoping that this threat to Orkney’s natural beauty would soon recede. In the distance I could see a farmhouse at the top of some fields. I stopped by a burnt out car and viewed the building through my binoculars….
