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Browsing Posts published in June, 2006

We decided to have another wander around the city today with two particular things in mind; to visit the Castle and Pull’s Ferry. On the way to the Castle we went via the Market Place and discovered the 15th Century Guildhall on one edge of the market. The external appearence is decorative and certainly interesting. [...]

Back home again

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We have just arrived back home from Norwich. All you avid readers of this Blog (Who am I kidding?) are probably wondering what happened to Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Well – it turned out that the Wireless Broadband connection provided by the hotel was less than reliable. It wouldn’t work on the day that [...]

Norwich – Wednesday

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The cloudy weather is still with us although the weather forecast says that it will stay dry. We decide to head north on the train as Norwich and Norfolk does have some useful public transport links. There is a line from Norwich which runs south-east through the Norfolk Broads to Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft called [...]

Norwich – Tuesday

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Today dawned cloudy with a forecast of possible showers so 'inside' looks good. We made our way over to the cathedral to look round the inside as we saw only the outside yesterday. The Nave is the second longest, after Winchester, in England. Whilst we were in there we saw a young blackbird perched on [...]

We got there in the end!

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I'm not talking about Norwich when I say 'We got there in the end' I'm talking about connecting to the Internet from the hotel. I had a lot of trouble yesterday, after we arrived in Norwich, trying to connect via the hotel's wireless broadband and the receptionist could not give me any advice on what [...]

Something I didn’t know!

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I have just had an email from someone in the Czech Republic who has visited the Delamere Forest Park near Chester. They included some photographs and this is one of them. I rather like the layer of mist on the water. This area appears to be the flooded forest of Blakemere – ‘mere’ being a [...]

Can it get any worse?

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It seems rather silly that at the beginning of May the weather was sunny and warm and now that it's the 1st of June, it's cloudy, raining and cold – welcome to England! We have just had, apparently, the wettest May on record. Now why doesn't that surprise me? The weather is supposed to be [...]