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Road Trip 2012 post #6

After sleeping the sleep of the innocents, the Darkstar household and I enjoyed a fantastic cooked breakfast and then decided on a wee trip out before I headed back home.

We picked Bolton Abbey as our destination, which would give us the chance to walk off our delicious breakfast and enjoy the spring sunshine which [...]

Road Trip 2012 post #5

Friday the 23rd saw me up and out early to travel on my way to sunny Leeds to visit the Darkstar family for an evening of debauchery and alcoholic excess. Okay I exaggerate, we played gin rummy (with a shameful episode of the RAGE on my part) had a couple of drinks, especially some lovely [...]

Road Trip 2012 post #4

Despite a beery evening, I was up with the lark and off once again to my spiritual home, Laugharne which is where Dylan Thomas lived and wrote many of his most loved poems. The place is so beautiful and peaceful. The village rest at the estuary mouth of River Taf (Afon Taf) which drifts out [...]

Road Trip 2012 post #3

Before I heading to Wales, I thought I would visit a town reminiscent of Chester, in that’s medieval, replete with history and on the Welsh border, Shrewsbury.

It’s famous for being the birthplace of Charles Darwin, Clive of India and home to Shrewsbury public school, whose former pupils included such comedy greats as Richard Ingrams, [...]

Road Trip 2012 post #2

My holiday began excellently, when I picked up my hire car from the very nice people at Europcar at Waverley Station. Unlike Hertz, who I’ve used before, they were cheaper, I didn’t have to wait 50 minutes to complete the paperwork and they were open on Sunday, which meant I could return the car when [...]

Road Trip 2012 post #1

The first road trip in a while is about to commence.

It will cover a mixture of old and new ground. The plan, such as it exists, is to spend more time drinking deep (literally and metaphorically) in Wales.

Leg one of the journey will be from Edinburgh to Chester, stratgeically placed on the northern [...]

My old watch

As it’s the Ides of March today and 4 years to the day since I bought my Sub, I thought I would post a small tribute to the 16610 Sub and bemoan the current state of Rolex offerings.

Despite having had a number of other watches over the last four years the Sub is the [...]

My new watch

Is, or rather will be, the first one shown in this video from Omega… more later….

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