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Nigel and Vicki LIVE: July 2015

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Morocco – The Atlas Mountains and beyond. At the top of the pass . Coming through the other side of the Atlas mountains is the famous UNESCO World Heritage town of Ait Ben Haddou with its dramatic Kasbahs (fortified buildings) and the scene of many films including Gladiator, Alexander, Kingdom of Heaven, and even Games of Thrones. Almost all the inhabitants live across the river in the modern town. Fossils in a slab of rock. Into the Dades valley. Rugs are w...

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE: Morocco – The Atlas Mountains and beyond

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Morocco – The Atlas Mountains and beyond. At the top of the pass . Coming through the other side of the Atlas mountains is the famous UNESCO World Heritage town of Ait Ben Haddou with its dramatic Kasbahs (fortified buildings) and the scene of many films including Gladiator, Alexander, Kingdom of Heaven, and even Games of Thrones. Almost all the inhabitants live across the river in the modern town. Fossils in a slab of rock. Into the Dades valley. Rugs are w...

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE: February 2014

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE. Sunday, 23 February 2014. Life in an English city, part I. It is a nice size, about 200,000 people, so it has good facilities. The main shopping street is car-free and there are two big malls. All the usual British High Street chain stores are present. Sigh. The centre is only about 15 minutes’ walk from where we live and the train station is another 5 minutes. I’ve run out …. But surely as we spend more time here well find more highlights. Thursday, 20 February 2014. Up on Bodmin M...

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE: Morocco – The Desert

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE. Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Morocco – The Desert. The ”camel trek” involves a couple of Berber lads walking and leading a camel followed by a train of camels and their passengers roped together. Not particularly challenging but soon we are away from everything with dunes in all directions as far as can be seen for a 45 minute ride to our camp for the night. But it is surprisingly peaceful. Looking back we’d have to say that the camel trek and night out in the desert was the best...

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE: June 2015

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE. Tuesday, 9 June 2015. The snow-capped Atlas mountains. Are at the top of the picture! Outside of school holidays travel from the UK is cheap, so for our first trip 'abroad' we decided on somewhere exotic, warm, and where we hadn’t been before. And cheap. Each day we get enticing offers in our inbox from Travelzoo. A culturally sensitively dressed tourist. Slippers, slippers, slippers . Fruit seller in Jemaa el-Fnaa square. One section is full of Berbers who look after the larger ski...

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). How to use this blog! The most recent post is at the top - they get older as you scroll down the page. Use the Blog Archive section to find a specific post. Each post has a "comment" section at the bottom where you can leave a message about that post. It might take a day or two before it appears. Dropbox (free online storage). Health and Fitness 24x7.

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE: May 2014

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE. Tuesday, 20 May 2014. Not exactly ordinary, but certainly settled compared with the previous phase of our ‘adventure’. There’s a reason why you haven’t seen much of us on here …. There hasn’t really been a lot to say! Having said that, we have been out and about quite a bit and we’ve made further plans for the year, so here’s a bit of an update. As Nigel indicated in his February post, Reading is only a half hour on the fast train to London. Travelling on the buses provides a better...

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE: January 2014

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE. Thursday, 23 January 2014. Final days in Greece. Two weeks after leaving Greece we thought it way past time we wrote a final note about our time in Greece, so here it is . Towards the end of our stay we had access to a hire car which allowed us to see more than just the area we could cover on foot. Our first excursion was over to the other side of this peninsula to the Venetian fort of Methoni, as mentioned in a previous post. The Arcardian Gate in the walls of Messene. Mystras was ...

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE: October 2014

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE. Sunday, 19 October 2014. Floor on an un-signposted parking building with lanes only suitable for mountain bikes and parking spaces 2mm wider than the cars. Or so it felt. It was closed for lunch. The Colosseum is spectacular though even with its growing cloak of scaffolding, which we'd witnessed last year. How many people even bother with this? Anyway, back to Rome …. As it was our second to last night together we went out for a Roman meal, trying suppli. Joan and Julie's Italian ho...

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE: December 2014

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Nigel and Vicki LIVE. Sunday, 7 December 2014. After just over a year we found ourselves in the Stimigliano station parking lot waiting for our HelpX host, Pauline. We had such a good time here over two weeks last September that we wonder if it can be as good again? The short answer - Yes! Is Pauline's home in the country sporting first-class accommodation, a stunning view over the old hill town of Tarano, and a wide slope of giant brambles to clear! The standard of accommodation we have to put up with .