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Posted June 8, 2020 -  No Comment

Fondly looking back at a pre-coronavirus trip to London when travel was easy….

As Planet Earth begins to slowly emerge from almost 3 months of ‘sheltering at home’ and, if you’re like me, you find yourself wanting to travel more than ever and living in the ‘you can’t travel so all you want to do is travel’ nightmare. As airlines and hotels attempt to get back to where […]

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Posted March 29, 2020 -  No Comment

Words of wisdom from The Doctor to get us through ‘social distancing’ and ‘sheltering at home’

It’s not out of the ordinary that in difficult times you turn to The Doctor for advice. As Planet Earth seems particularly off its axis at the moment as the world is struggling to cope with the fallout of social distancing and varying degrees of a sheltering at home lockdown due to the COVID-19 coronavirus, leave […]

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