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Goodbye, Norway … For Now!

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 1d

From my archives: Goodbye, Norway ... For Now travelrat.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/g...

So, that’s it for Norway. But, there’s no sense of ‘crossing it off the list’; we still have plenty of things we’d like to see and do there. A return visit in Spring or Summer … a snowmobile ride ……

So, I’ve come to the end of the ‘Portugal Diary’; the next trip starts in about ten days’ time, so I just have a week to fill in. And, for the first time since the blog started … I’ve run out of ‘b…

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 1d

Today's blog post: Alpenstock travelrat.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/a...

Alpenstock

Li River: 18th May 2014 We arrived at Guilin from Chengdu late in the evening, after dark. So, we didn’t, at first, see the scenery until the morning, when we awoke to a view from the hotel room wi…

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 2d

From my archives: Cruising on the Li River travelrat.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/c...

Cruising on the Li River

Morialta Falls (or should that be Fell?)

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 3d

From my archives: Morialta Falls (or should that be 'fell')? travelrat.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/m...

Morialta Falls: 2nd December 2015 I’ve often heard visitors to England’s landmark waterfalls express disappointment that it wasn’t what they were expecting. The trouble is, most visitors come in t…

Happy New Year, everyone!! Rhine Gorge: 6th April 2018 I’ll start the New Year off with a slide show of our cruise through the Rhine Gorge. I put a video up (the other week? Or last year??) but I h…

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 4d

From my archives: Rhine Gorge: Pictures travelrat.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/r...

Rhine Gorge: Pictures

During our post-lockdown wanderings, I’ve been able to do a few things I haven’t been able to do for over a year. One of those things is to partake of fish n’ chips. Real fish n’ chips, that is, fr…

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 5d

From my archives: Fish n' Chips travelrat.wordpress.com/2021/08/29/f...

Fish n’ Chips

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 5d

Pic of the Week: Italy: Not long to go now.

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 5d

When a fish bites your thigh
and you bleed out and die
That's a moray ...

Shildon: 19th May 2017 If you have any interest in railway history, Shildon, near Darlington, is a place of pilgrimage. It was from Shildon in 1825 that the steam engine Locomotion, with Geo…

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 6d

From my archives: Shildon travelrat.wordpress.com/2017/06/22/s...

Shildon

Gibraltar: 2nd April 2015 We arrived in Gibraltar about midday, so we only had an afternoon here. But, it’s such a small place that’s easily enough time to see the highlights. Europa Po…

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 7d

From my archives: Gibraltar travelrat.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/g...

Gibraltar

Bruges: 25th June 2012. Last week, I posted about a visit I made to Bruges many years ago. Today, I’ll tell a little about our stop here on the way home from Maastricht; ostensibly, to compare the …

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 8d

From my archives: Bruges travelrat.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/b...

Bruges

With the next trip to Italy and Switzerland on the horizon, it’s time to hit the books. The modern ones, of course; the ones that tell you what you ‘must see and do’, and advise you not to order ca…

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 8d

Today's blog post: According to Bradshaw ... travelrat.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/a...

According to Bradshaw …

Delft is a historic town in The Netherlands. Here are the top things to see in Delft on a self-guided walking tour in the old town.

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Velvet Escape @velvetescape.com · 9d

Famous as the birthplace of Vermeer, Delft is a beautiful town to visit as a day trip from Amsterdam or Rotterdam: velvetescape.com/delightful-d...

#Delft #Netherlands #travel #traveladdicts #travelbloggerscommunity

Delightful Delft

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nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 9d

From my archives: Machu Picchu Slide Show/Old Dickie travelrat.wordpress.com/2018/02/01/m...

Machu Picchu Slide Show/ Old Dickie

I had the weirdest dream the other night. I dreamt I was just leaving Machu Picchu when I met my old English teacher. ‘Write an essay on what you have just seen’ he said ‘but do not use the words ‘…

Jaipur: 26th September 2018 I assume the real purpose of these two stalwart gentlemen was to guard the two massive silver urns which, you may remember, were commissioned by a former Maharajah. He n…

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 10d

From my archives: Turban Winding travelrat.wordpress.com/2019/02/28/t...

Turban Winding

When I visit Amesbury Town Centre, I usually drop into the Forge Gallery for a chat. This is run by a co-operative of local artists, and there’s such an ever-changing display of exciting stuff ther…

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 11d

From my archives: Metal Menagerie travelrat.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/m...

Metal Menagerie

Llanberis 7th July 2009 (cont’d) The Snowdon Mountain Railway wasn’t the only railway in Llanberis that quarry owner George William Duff-Assheton-Smith was responsible for. He also had built fo…

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 12d

Pic of the Week: Since this week marks the 200th Anniversary of 'Locomotion's' historic run from Darlington to Stockton, I had to post a picture of it.

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nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 12d

From my archives: Llanberis Lake Railway travelrat.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/l...

Llanberis Lake Railway

When I blogged about Australian beer last week, I neglected to mention the excellent beer brewed by a micro-brewery in the hills behind Adelaide, which we visited in 2006. It’s near Hahndorf, a vil…

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 13d

From my archives: A Visit to Grumpy's travelrat.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/a...

A Visit to Grumpy’s

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 13d

Someone once said it will take the next TWO Presidents ... if they both serve two terms.

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 13d

He's getting away with it because nobody seems to have the cojones to stand up and say 'It doesn't work like that'.

I pity his successor; they're going to have a helluva job clearing the mess up!

Ha Long Bay: 21/22 November 2019 A four-hour drive along one of the world’s most tedious motorways brought us to Ha Long City. There was a stop along the way, where they showed how seed pearls were…

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 14d

From my archives: Emeraude travelrat.wordpress.com/2020/08/18/e...

Emeraude

Only a short distance from Brighton Pier lies a railway. To describe it verbally makes it sound like only a slight thing; an open-sided, single-car unit running for just over a mile along the seafr…

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 15d

From my archives : Volk's Electric Railway travelrat.wordpress.com/2013/10/16/v...

Volk’s Electric Railway

nomadkeith.bsky.social @nomadkeith.bsky.social · 15d

I think all dentists tell you that. Maybe they all have shares in a dental floss company?