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  • Visiting Slimbridge Wetland centre

    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…

  • Visiting Bletchley Park

    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…

  • Visiting the Royal Mint at Llantrisant

    Visiting the Royal Mint at Llantrisant

    Croeso I Cymru  Welcome to Wales This week Bill and I went on a coach trip to the royal mint at Llantrisant which is near Cardiff in Wales.  I have been a coin collector for a number of years and was keen to learn a little more about how they were made.  The visitor experience…

  • A day out in Wells

    A day out in Wells

    Wells is England’s smallest city yet there is a great deal to see from the huge gothic cathedral to the bishop’s palace

  • Westonbirt Arboretum: Going for gold, my favourite autumn walk

    Westonbirt Arboretum: Going for gold, my favourite autumn walk

    One of my favourite local places to visit at this time of year is Westonbirt Arboretum, which is in Gloucestershire about four miles from Tetbury.  An Arboretum is a word for a collection of trees and Westonbirt has 15,000 of them including 2,500 different types.   The collection was started in 1850 by Robert Holford,…