Blog posts
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Catalunya MotoGP and Mallorca
This trip represented a few firsts for us. But let’s start with how it came together. My wife was looking for a warm holiday destination for May and came across Hotel Astoria having been attracted by the Bali beds on their balconies overlooking the pool. That was booked and we were to revisit flights. I…
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Uncanny and a return to the Leicester Square Theatre
This trip came not really all that long after the last one and was framed around the Uncanny stage show, the Danny Robins podcast turned TV show turned popular theatre tour. We added first James Acaster who had long been on our must-see list and then latterly an improvised crowd work show in London. We…
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The 52 Pub Challenge 2026 edition
Inspired by The Moon Under Water podcast (RIP) where the presenters undertook such a challenge, and continuing a thing from the past few years I thought it would be fun / semi-amusing / a gentle diversion to look at the pubs visited during the year. I actually wasn’t going to do this list this year,…
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Sue Perkins and how many shows??
Our next trip of the year, which we undertook the week before last, didn’t involve us travelling by car everywhere so the likelihood of sobriety had been greatly reduced. The likelihood of entertainment was strong though with a series of shows of different types planned. When we arrived at Jersey Airport, via our now usual…
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Reading and Worthing
Our first trip in 2026 was right at the beginning of January, originally to help our daughter move home, but ultimately it involved moving keys about and checking things were as they should be. At a relatively ungodly travelling hour by our standards, we were required to be out early to get a car up…
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The 52 Pub Challenge 2025 edition
Inspired by The Moon Under Water podcast (RIP) where the presenters undertook such a challenge, and combined with Google Timeline getting a bit erratic after the move of it’s data onto my phone I thought it would be fun / semi-amusing / a gentle diversion to look at the pubs visited during the year. As…
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Beauty, Beast and the Lap of Lights
Our last trip of the year was designed around a visit to Silverstone to see the Lap of Lights event, but while we were there we also popped up to Reading to catch a panto. This was one we were really looking forward to. This was another occasion where we got an Evie car up…
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Josh, Ardal and Steps
Last week we had a return to the UK to enjoy more shows with a focus on fun. I’ll say up front now that it was a bit of a whirlwind, and we were busy throughout, and were really very keen to get back home to relax, but that’s not because we didn’t have a…
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101 Dalmatians
The last time I wrote here I’d been writing about an April trip seeing friends, doing a lot of driving and watching shows, but remarking that it was our last trip before our summer sabbatical adventures. Now those did happen taking the form of actually three separate trips, including one enormous one, but I’m not…
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April shows: Hampton Court, Starlight & Sonia
This being the last trip we go on before our 2 month UK and Europe road trip, attention is certainly coming around to the practicalities of that journey and for me this trip, sat the end of March and the first week of April, was part of that. We’d be spending a lot of time…
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