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Visiting Slimbridge Wetland centre
Nothing suggests spring to me more than seeing downy ducklings on a lake and one of our favourite places to go at this time of year is Slimbridge Wetland centre near Gloucester. Click here to find out more I love to wander along the well made trails or try to spot new arrivals from…
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The New Room Bristol and John Wesley
Did you know Charles and John Wesley built the very first Methodist chapel here in Bristol? A lot of people visit Broadmead, the shopping district in the middle of Bristol without realising that the chapel exists. But you can discover it opposite the Galleries shopping centre. The Horsefair entrance is close to the arcade.…
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Walking tour of Georgian Bath
I belong to a walk in the past, history walking group and last Sunday we explored Georgian Bath. Bath which is a UNESCO world heritage site still markets itself as a Georgian city. In the 18th century the aristocracy flocked here to take the waters, to gamble or to find a suitable spouse. Jane…
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Visiting Bletchley Park
A local college offers free study weekends for the “young at heart” over fifties. I am not sure we qualify as young at heart but I liked the sound of one of the activities on offer a functional Mathematics study day and a visit to Bletchley Park home of the wartime code breakers. I very…