Isambard Kingdom Brunel:

Trains & Boats & Planes – 2024

30 January 2025 | Transport

All three forms of transport featured in my 2024 travels and I posted a blog on my my favourite tube stations around the London underground train system. ▲ Trains no longer stop in Marceline, Missouri although lots of visitors come there for the Walt Disney Museum ...

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At the Olympic Opening

29 July 2012 | Places

◄ Maureen and I were at the Olympic opening in London on Friday night. Here we are with Simon Calder, travel editor at the Independent newspaper. The opening – fantastic – a wonderful, exciting, dramatic evening full of high spots. We all loved the Queen ‘parachuti...

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Down the Thames with the Queen

4 June 2012 | Culture

Like many people in London I devoted some of yesterday to getting rather wet as a thousand odd boats rowed, paddled and powered their way down the Thames as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant – that’s 60 years since she took up her role as Queen of England. ...

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