Amherst Guest House Reading
73 Russell Street Reading, Berkshire, England, RG1 7XG, United Kingdom
Travel Blogs Nearby
Good bye blighty...
Well, started writing this post on Saturday Evening... all packed and ready to go, guarantee I will repack about 10 times before we set off Tuesday, feel very much behind Barry who was so organised today! Now its Tuesday been to work (crazy I know), and repacked the hand luggage a couple of times pretty sure I have remembered everything, t-minus one hour until we leave for the airport! good bye for now all and we see you on t'other side of the world!
...
Memories of London Street, Reading UK, 1963
... but a picture, or videotape, of old Reading circa 1963. I remember the Simmonds pubs, with their red hop leaf signs; Barnes & Avis in Friar Street, where our lodger used to sell TV's; the Granby Cinema, where I and many other boys (I can't remember any girls) attended Saturday morning pictures; the Cadena Café in Broad Street, where my mother drank coffee after Saturday morning shopping, and I drank ginger beer. But the most vivid memories are of a street that ...
Toddlers, sunshine and lots more hobbling
... group was an absolute joy. I'm fairly sure the "Little Monsters" of Hounslow now believe that a robot lives in their midst; they were all fascinated by the leg brace and by the crutches and by my hopping along, one lovely little boy even tried to un-velcro my leg brace! The evening's PHAB Club was full of enquiries about my leg and how I was doing, including one of my fellow team mates from the previous week who declared that he'll never play football again until I'm ...
One last day of drinkable tap water
If you ever find yourself at loose ends, with a 24 hour layover in England on the weekend of a major holiday, I'd like to suggest you look up my friend Lissy. This is not, entirely, because of her family's fairly magnificent generosity and variety of napping locations, but also partly, in fact, maybe even mostly, for the sheer joy of getting to write on your immigration form that you will be staying at: Uplands Bethesda Street ...
Gruelling Day: Pic Dump to show overwhelmingness
... but without the nice cars somehow). Willesden Green was neither green nor acceptable. We physically looked in Acton, North and South Hampstead, North and South Kensignton, and e-looked in a hundred other neighborhoods. Eventually, we decided that 1) we needed more than a shoebox, and indeed more than a studio. 2) We couldn't afford a 1 bedroom in central London. 3) If we were to travel to the first place we could afford a 1 bedroom, ...

