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WALES AND WEST - TRAVEL

02 October 2008
A FLEETING VISIT TO EASTBOURNE

YOU may well think of Eastbourne as a place for retirement. There are many elderly people of the blue rinse variety in the south coast town but it is more lively than you may think.

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28/05/2007
'OSS, OSS, WEE OSS' - MAY DAY IN PADSTOW

TO PADSTONIANS, May Day is more important than Christmas, New Year and Easter combined. What else would bring locals home from all over the world simply to spend a day in their village?

For May Day is about the 'Obby 'Oss - and don't they enjoy it!

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07/05/2007
A TRAVELLERS GUIDE TO . . . DUBLIN

THE GIRLS are supposed to be so pretty in Dublin, according to the legend of Molly Malone. But it is not only the ladies who are attractive - the city itself, as discovered on my first trip to the Irish capital, is quite superb as well.

Cheap flights from the UK have made Ireland almost as accessible as anywhere on the British mainland and it was a case of no sooner being up in the air from Bristol Airport than the flight was landing in the Emerald Isle's capital for this trip.

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23/04/2007
A TRAVELLERS GUIDE TO .... BATH

ONLY if you live in the city of Bath can you fail to be left breathless by it. For ten months of my life, I lived in the Roman city and was guilty of taking it for granted. (Iconic Bath Abbey pictured)

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