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Armed Forces Day 2014
29th June 2014
by Mark Hawkins
Armed Forces Day (formerly Veterans’ Day) in the United Kingdom is an annual event celebrated in late June to commemorate the service of men and women in the British Armed Forces. I discovered too late that events were being held in Cardiff City Centre on Saturday as I was sipping my morning coffee and […]
England elimination – 2010
22nd June 2014
by Mark Hawkins
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa found me approaching the end of nearly three years living in London. After the heartache of Germany 2006 I never entertained going to South Africa for the tournament four years later, despite tracking and trailing big cats there the summer before. On the tournament’s opening day I happened […]
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Highland flung
15th December 2013
by Mark Hawkins
Another from the travel vaults, this tells of a day during a 2008 road-trip around the mesmerising Western Highlands of Scotland. The well-travelled writer, broadcaster and Monty Python member Michael Palin ranks this as his favourite area of the UK and it’s easy to see why. I badly want to go back. I wind myself […]
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Bristol fashion
30th August 2013
by Mark Hawkins
“Ship shape and Bristol fashion..” Adj. (chiefly nautical) Tidily tied down and secure. – Wikipedia http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shipshape_and_Bristol_fashion Not much distance separates the UK cities of Cardiff and Bristol. Just under 45 miles of road, if Google is to be believed, as well as the River Severn estuary and a fairly important border that divides Wales and England. In terms of population, […]