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Review: Luminate at Coombe 2023 lights up the build-up to Christmas
If there is a sure-sign that Christmas is coming, it is not the Coca-Cola lorry coming to a supermarket car park near you but the sight of twinkling fairy lights from one of the many winter light trails that are now seemingly part and parcel of the build-up to the festive season.
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Getting (back) into golf – Notes from a (returning) novice golfer
So I have done it. I have committed to something new. You could say it is part of a new challenge, a new project, one which depending how it goes could be short-lived or could run for some time. One which I hope will be enjoyable and fulfilling and could lead to an element of self-discovery. And it could be one where in time I think ‘why didn’t I do this sooner?’.
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Discovering Durham – Day 3: Doing the Locomotion
We have reached the final day – or in our case, half day – of discovering some of Durham’s quite excellent visitor attractions. After another very hearty breakfast of pastries, bacon rolls and coffee, we say our fond farewells to the Park Head Hotel and set off for nearby Shildon and our last engagement on what has been a fabulous itinerary; a visit to Locomotion.
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Coombe Abbey, the Princess and the Gunpowder Plot
In the coming week up and down the country and locally, bonfires will be lit and firework displays will light up the night skies to celebrate Bonfire Night.
Whilst the fifth of November is a time of people coming together for food, drink, bonfires, sparklers and firework pyrotechnics, it is a reminder of one of England’s most notorious acts of treason way back in 1605. The Gunpowder Plot, the failed attempt to kill King James I and his courtiers by blowing up the Houses of Parliament.
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Discovering Durham – Day 2: Bishops, Faith and Beamish – Part 2
Onto the second part of our second day in Durham and a look around a visitor attraction which secretly we had hoped would be included on our itinerary.
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Discovering Durham – Day 2: Bishops, Faith and Beamish – Part 1
The first half of our itinerary for the second day was to head into Bishop Auckland and to explore some of the numerous attractions which make up the Auckland Project; a regeneration charity that has used art to help transform the fortunes of this former mining town.
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Discovering Durham – Day 1: A new Rising
Our first port of call was the magnificent Raby Castle. What a place to start our short tour of what Durham has to offer.
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Discovering Durham – an introduction
We have all done it. How many times have you been somewhere and said afterwards “I’d love to come back here again”, but then never actually got round to doing it. Or it has taken an absolute age for whatever reason to fulfil that promise.
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Luminate 2023 – 5 great reasons, 8 magical venues
As Autumn is officially upon us, anticipation is building for the return of Luminate this winter.
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The Landlocked Traveller 