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Michaela’s Favourite Photographs: #5 Ten Years Ago
Rugby, England, 2013. OK so this one isn’t a travel photograph but it’s definitely one of our favourites, and one which touches our hearts every time we look at it. This is the only time that these two wonderful people ever met, two people who were huge influences on our respective lives and two people who will remain in our hearts for ever. My Dad meets Michaela’s Nan, Stanley meets Yvonne. We have no idea to this day what he’s just said to her to make Yvonne laugh like this. But this photograph is special: we love and miss them both. This is their one and only meeting, on our…
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What Do We Miss About Home?
Funnily enough, it’s not usually the very first pint of English ale which goes down a treat and makes me realise what I’ve been missing: no, it’s more often than not a few days after we’ve returned and we’re now settled in a pub somewhere, absorbed in chatter whilst quaffing beer and scoffing peanuts and saying to ourselves, “yeah, this feels good”. That’s the moment. These days though, we don’t miss much about home when we travel, and it’s with a little sadness that we say we don’t miss too much about England either. Since we left these shores on our first post-retirement adventure in January 2020 we’ve spent over…
