2023
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Winchcombe & Sudeley Castle
Read More: Winchcombe & Sudeley CastleWe woke up to rain this morning – much more than the 2mm potentially forecasted. So we dawdled over breakfast and coffee until the weather cleared a bit. Then it was a short drive to this morning’s walk through the pretty woods. The trail took us along the edge of a sheep field where we…
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Hook Norton Brewery and The Rollright Stones
Read More: Hook Norton Brewery and The Rollright StonesOur accommodation for the next week has a full kitchen and our plan is to cook most of our meals there, so today was partly about touring and partly shopping for provisions. The Diddly Squat Farm Shop just south of Chippy was made ‘famous’ by a British TV show. We don’t totally understand the fuss,…
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Blenheim Palace
Read More: Blenheim PalaceWe spent the day at the amazing baroque manor, Blenheim Palace in Woodstock. A UNESCO site, Blenheim Palace is home to the current (12th) Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and was the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. The palace was built as a gift to General John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough from Queen Anne…
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The Cotswolds
Read More: The CotswoldsDespite being experienced travellers Dave made a rookie mistake this morning. While working on his Visa application for an upcoming business trip to India, he scanned his passport and promptly left it in the scanner. Not good when you need it later that day to fly to England. Oops! Thankfully Ryan was able to drive…
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Singapore – The layover on the way home.
Read More: Singapore – The layover on the way home.We flew from Kuala Lumpur back to Singapore this morning and have a 17-hour layover before our international flight tomorrow morning. We are staying at the airport tonight (there are three hotels to choose from!). Luckily, there is a lot of crazy stuff to do and see in The Jewel, a huge shopping mall attached…
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Kuala Lumpur
Read More: Kuala LumpurKris did a research project on Kuala Lumpur in elementary school and has always wanted to visit. When the world was introduction to the Petronas Twin Towers in the movie ‘Entrapment’ in 1999, KL became a bucket list destination for both of us. KL, the capital of Peninsular Malaysia, is a fascinating melting pot of…
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Kuching
Read More: KuchingWorking around our travel agent’s timeline and our international flights, we have ended up with a ‘free’ day in Kuching to relax and make up for the last week of early mornings. There is a vibrant food scene here and we’ve enjoyed it a lot. We started our day with laksa at breakfast – thin…
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Bako National Park
Read More: Bako National ParkVery early this morning, Peetee drove us about an hour north of Kuching to the jetty at Bako Village. From there, it was a 20-minute speedboat ride to the headquarters of Bako National Park. Mashor will continue to be our guide for our stay in Bako. Bako National Park is the oldest national park in…
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Kuching Day 3 – Orangutans and Village Longhouse Lunch.
Read More: Kuching Day 3 – Orangutans and Village Longhouse Lunch.Mashor and driver Peetee took us outside of town to the Semenggok Orangutan Rehabilitation Center for (maybe) our last look at the ‘man of the forest’. The aim of the center is to return injured or orphaned orangtuans back to their natural habitat. There are up to 25 orangs who live in the huge protected…
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Kuching Day 2 – Dolphins and Blow Darts
Read More: Kuching Day 2 – Dolphins and Blow DartsWe were up early this morning to do a half-day boat tour. From the north of town, we took a boat to the estuary of the Salak River on the Santubong peninsula. Our two captains are literally older retired guys who used to log the area. They bought themselves a boat and now take tourists…
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Loire Valley Wineries
The last several days have been a blur of winery visits, cafe lunches and picnics in beautiful locations! We stopped by Chateau du Petit Thouars for a tour, tasting and lunch. The family has owned the chateau and its winery since 1634. We met Sebastian, the multi-grandson, and the chateau cat, Biscuit (although he wasn’t…
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Chinon
Today we visited the town of Chinon on the River Vienne. Chinon was the favourite dwelling place of Henri II Plantagenet and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Joan of Arc arrived in Chinon in 1429 claiming to hear heavenly voices telling her that Charles VII, the French dauphin, would give her an army to neutralize…
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Tours to Loire Valley
We bid a last adieu to Eric (again!) this morning. We left him at his orientation picnic in Tours and headed deeper into the Loire Valley to continue our oenotourism! We stopped for lunch and a wine tasting at Chateau de Miniere, a women-run winery in the country where we had a lesson on the…
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