The Oaks Hotel
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From boats to the Bullring
... street to the first of the stalls, selling hot wine, biscuits, candles, tealight holders and cakes, there was so much to see and lots of people about. On the way to the top end of the market we saw hats, gloves scarves, german smoking men, nutcrackers and more biscuits.
There were mummers on route, making the children jump when them moved and the food section was amazing with meter long sausages folded into ...
Day 12
... him in his cab too & fro on many occasions. Gary was a gem and one of those people even tho they may only influence your life for a split second or number of minutes, reminds you that there are genuinely nice people out there. After a short wait we joined the snaking queue and ran through the gets to our train, we managed to procure a lovely seat positioned right next to the toilet. We had to build a little fort to block our line of sight of the trains patrons ...
Wonderful Waxwings
... and widespread here but at other times they are scarce and elusive.
They come from the north and east to feast on our berries and escape the worst of the weather in their breeding areas. It breeds in small numbers in northern Sweden and Finland and then in larger numbers across Russie and Siberia and into north-western North America, extending as far as Washington and northern Idaho.
Given that their normal habitat is in some of the wildest and ...
Final thoughts
... Bad:
The open sewers (not everywhere thankfully but enough of them!) and thus the smells
The toilets
The roads and traffic. There appears to be NO lane discipline. As far as we can tell, the driver has to be very careful not to hit anyone from behind. That seems to be the only rule of the road. Wagons without rear lights also make driving at night hazardous
The railways - only because of the toilet facilities....
Would we go again? You betcha we ...
Hail to the Bunting
... too. After all I’ve spent a fair bit on legitimate parking in that part of the world over the last fifteen years or more.
The Dun Cow at Salthouse had proven an excellent venue for lunch at the start of October so we tried it again. This time we weren’t able to sit outside – it was still much too windy for that but yet again we had a splendid meal which gave us a boost for a final birding session in the late afternoon.
With a ...
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