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Snowdonia (probably)
Thursday 23rd January 2020, 3.15pm (day 3,073) Up in the air again, from Manchester airport heading roughly north-west, though not very far (so if you want, you can deduce where I travelled to before I...
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This is how close we are to Europe
Wednesday 29th January 2020, 10.55am (day 3,079) I know that on my ‘About’ page I claim that this blog is intended to be apolitical. But now and again I make exceptions, and this is one of those days....
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A burned bit of Iceland (not the UK!)
Sunday 10th October 2021, 2.40pm (day 3,699) Yes folks, after 615 consecutive days on the island of Great Britain, I have finally left it. It was February 2nd 2020, in Bucharest, that this blog last...
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Arrival on St Helena
Tuesday 9th November 2021, 12.25pm (day 3,729) Is this working? Hmmm, seems to be. OK then, I am successfully online on one of the world’s most remote islands, 1,200 miles from the nearest other land....
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The dune sea, at sunset
Wednesday 1st December 2021, 4.45pm (day 3,751) The flight home. The Sahara looked astonishing: this was a day when I wish I could break my own rules and post more than one photo. The River Niger...
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View from Terminal 2
Thursday 19th January 2023, 4.20pm (day 4,165) At the point in time that this photo was taken, I should have been somewhere over the Congo, maybe Zambia. This, however, is definitely not the interior...
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Addis Ababa (unexpectedly)
Friday 20th January 2023, 7.05am (day 4,166) Until late morning yesterday, if you’d have suggested this blog might feature the capital of Ethiopia at some point in the near future, I would not have...
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Home, from 15,000 feet (approx.)
Sunday 5th February 2023, 12.30pm (day 4,182) From leaving Gareth’s place in St Helena on Saturday morning, to arriving back in Hebden Bridge at about 3.30pm on Sunday afternoon, was a 28-hour...
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The calm under the flightpath
Saturday 11th February 2023, 2.00pm (day 4,188) These have to be among the world’s most stoic horses. The poles in this field are one end of the series of guidance beacons for one of the runways at...
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The Pyrenees
Wednesday 5th April 2023, 1.05pm (day 4,241) I think that, by law, and certainly by my own moral code, all aeroplane windows should be kept sparkling clean. The one I had to use on our flight home...
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