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‘El Drac’… Stuart France

* Geography! Never our strongest suit… * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Callings… Stuart France

* It is entirely possible that this ‘fella’ once stood in a ‘circle’. He now guards a lay-by in an unassuming stretch of Dartmoor, if such a thing can be said to exist. * * Nearby, stands a ‘wayside cross’ … Continue reading

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Hackpen Hill… Stuart France

* Even our ‘elusive barrow’ was bigger than we expected. We couldn’t help being reminded of the Fairy Mine. * * And we would have got a lot closer still but for the seven-foot-tall stinging nettles. Continue reading at Stuart … Continue reading

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‘Aye’ of the day’s eye… Stuart France

* Approaching Avebury in this way we got to side-step the crowds. * * Most of whom had been unceremoniously penned into the Red Lion. * * But it is not about meticulous planning. * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Fringe Benefits… Stuart France

* Another one of those ‘green-worm-holes’ presented itself. * * And we were hardly likely to refuse. * * Continue reading at Stuart France

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The Rock of Brentor… Stuart France

* ‘…A church, full bleak, and weather beaten, all alone, as it were forsaken…’ * “St Michael de Rupe?” “St Michael the Rock.” “I thought St Peter was supposed to be the ‘Rock’?” * * “The rock referred to here, … Continue reading

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Weather! … Stuart France

* Getting to the Hurlers proved easy enough… * * Clustered, as they were, around the extremities of Bodmin Moor… * * But the weather closed in… * * Almost as soon as we set foot to turf… * Continue … Continue reading

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Citadel of the Sun II… Stuart France

* … We had been at the mercy of the tides before. At Lindisfarne we were stranded on the ‘island’ for eight hours. This time we were ‘stranded’ on the mainland… There is something about causewayed isles that speaks to … Continue reading

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Citadel of the Sun… Stuart France

* ‘There is a certain atmosphere about the place, an echo of a life that is hidden deep in the recesses of the mind.’ * “Brown Sign!” The Green Goddess lurched violently as she swung around the almost impossible corner, … Continue reading

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Something fishy in Glastonbury… Stuart France

* ‘It doesn’t feel like we’re in England. It feels like we’re in France or something.’ No idea why France in particular except, perhaps, that my memories of that country shimmer with light and heat, and the sun was beating … Continue reading

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