Truckfest for Lorry lovers
This month we shall be heading our way down to Yeovil in Somerset to see a festival of trucks and lorries. In our family we are not so much petrol heads as diesel heads and we love the sight of these ...
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Salford Quays – A trip into the future
Travelling up very busy motorways to what the Prime Minister hopes will become part of his “Northern Powerhouse” scheme, I wondered how many more vehicles can use our already overstretched ...
Remember the delights of the Pleasure Garden?
Long before the invention of Disneyland, Georgians enjoyed their own type of amusement park: the pleasure garden. For a modest entry fee, people from all walks of life could escape the noise and squal ...
The Russian experience
Flickering past the train window are birch trees and patches of spring snow. And this ever-changing yet never changing scenery has become the surprising highlight of my time on the Trans Siberian Expr ...