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Cassino – Day Two

The alarm woke us at 4am. We got washed and dressed then drove the short distance to Manchester airport.
When we arrived at the meet and greet car park, the barrier didn’t lift to let us in. Mr C pressed the intercom button to speak to someone who checked his details up on the system. Mr [...]

5 Comments CherryPie on May 11th 2025

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Cassino – Day One

For various reasons I wasn’t able to lay my potential holiday clothes options out on the bed then reject some, keeping my packing to a sensible level before packing my bag the day before travelling as I usually do.
This left me feeling stressed out packing at the last minute whilst Mr C sorted out some [...]

2 Comments CherryPie on May 9th 2025

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A Room with a View

Back from my travels…

2 Comments CherryPie on May 8th 2025

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St Albans – Day Four

For our final morning in St Albans, sampled the hotel breakfast. I was tempted by the idea of a continental breakfast. Apart from meat and cheese, everything was there but the bread, pastries and fruits were more English in style. Turning back to the main menu I chose a pancake stack which was beautifully presented. [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 30th 2025

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St Albans – Day Three

We attended the 9.30 Easter service in St Albans Cathedral which, as we had been advised the previous day, was spiritual and communal. There were processions and presenting of ‘The Book’ and speaking the word, which is moving to experience.
Between the two-morning services, bubbles, juice and tea were served in the Cathedral’s Welcome Centre to [...]

7 Comments CherryPie on Apr 28th 2025

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St Albans – Day Two

We had a lazy start to the morning and walked to the other side of town to have breakfast in The Street Café.
I was hoping to have the ‘tomatoes on bruschetta with herbs and balsamic vinegar’ that I had in November last year when we had breakfast there. It wasn’t on the menu this time [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 27th 2025

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St Albans – Day One

When Mr C got out of bed, he noticed a missed phone call (on our land line) from mum’s mobile timed at 5am. I decided not to worry about it, if there was a problem the care home would have called us.
Although the traffic was running smoothly, the motorway journey was tedious. We stopped for [...]

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