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Tag Archives: beach
Seal invasion (Rousse)
A couple seated a few tables away from us across the hotel dining room appeared to be sharing exciting news. I couldn’t resist interrupting my meal to run over to them and find out what was going on. “Look out … Continue reading
Couple helpless as Royal Bank of Scotland head office goes up in flames (Rousse)
I was sitting on the concrete floor at Waverley Station, leaning against a plate glass window, when X approached me. “What are you doing here?” I demanded to know. “Shouldn’t you be at a conference in Norfolk?” X lifted me … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, brigade, concrete, conference, couple, Edinburgh, fire, flames, floor, George Street, glare, glass, helpless, nagging, Norfolk, Orange, Queen's Hall, railway, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, sand, sandy, service, St Andrew Square, station, sunshine, Waverley, wife, window
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Coping with Canadian weather and dangerous dogs (Rousse)
We learnt about the extremes of Canadian weather during our family touring holiday. One moment we were watching entire islands being swept along an immense broad valley in meltwater floods. The next we were struggling to drive over roads sealed … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, beach, bearings, Canadian, car, cope, coping, danger, dangerous, direction, dog, dogs, family, father, flight, flood, holiday, ice, island, islands, Jack Russell, lost, meltwater, Pitlochry, road, Rockies, salt, sand, sandy, Scottish, settlement, sunshine, teeth, terrier, terriers, Toronto, touring, vacation, valley, weather, wilderness, windows, woman, yellow
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Tsunami victim gathers up beach wear and the wounded (Rousse)
I thought that I had left my belongings far enough up the beach for them to be safe. Then a huge wave appeared from nowhere and dragged everything in its path back into the sea. With the help of my … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, belongings, bikini, bikinis, duty, ear, friend, hearing, huge, injured, rescue, sea, small, tsunami, university, wave, wounded
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Hotel thefts in Hawaii (Rousse)
Very soon I would be heading home from Hawaii. In the few hours before my flight I planned to sunbathe in the hotel grounds. I couldn’t risk lying on the beach. The waves were too unpredictable. That morning they’d already … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, beach, camera, car, dollars, flight, gilet, guest, guests, Hawaii, hotel, lambskin, lamp-post, lamppost, lawn, pocket, pockets, purse, reception, receptionist, report, rules, staff, steal, strangers, sunbathe, theft, thefts, tickets, valuables, wallet, waves
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The beach body (Rousse)
When we first arrived at our exotic Caribbean holiday destination I identified the poolside as the spot where we would spend most of the week. However, we were soon drawn to the beach from where everyone watched the huge waves … Continue reading
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Tagged bay, beach, beach bodies, beach body, bikini, boats, bodies, body, books, Caribbean, corpse, cycling, dead, destination, drown, exotic, fat, girl, green, helmet, high, holiday, library, middle-age, middle-aged, picnic, pool, poolside, red, sand, slim, spot, sunbathe, swell, T shirt, teenage, teenager, tide, TPR, water, wave, waves, woman
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BBC sponsors Fife summer fair (Rousse)
Just across the Firth of Forth in Fife a state secondary school hosted an annual summer fair. It was odd that we had never known about this, especially given the BBC sponsorship of the event. I turned up on the … Continue reading
Drunken wife escapes cruel husband in the Outer Hebrides (Rousse)
Back from our holiday, TPR resumed his cruelty towards me. I couldn’t work out why he had attached an electrical cord to me, nor why his university pals were now pulling on it, but I was determined to escape from … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, beaches, cruelty, dressed, drunk, electrical cord, escape, evil, free, holidat, madness, Outer Hebrides, pals, plot, sea, shore, TPR, university, waves
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Rousse reviews a package holiday in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico was such a dump. I was so relieved that we hadn’t suggested we come here on holiday with my Canadian cousins at Easter. Unfortunately though, we were still stuck in the shabby resort for a week and would … Continue reading
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Tagged all-inclusive, beach, boss, Canadian, chairs, classroom, cousins, dump, Easter, explore, hall, hand, holiday, lecture, lecturer, photographs, plastic, Puerto Rico, resort, restaurants, reviews, sea, shabby, shingle, sit, site, small, speaker, temperature, tweet, vacation, web, website, week, whisper
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Top notch facilities at Isle of Lewis guest house (Rousse)
The guest house on the Isle of Lewis offered upgraded facilities, including a beautiful marble block of changing rooms and toilets close to the beach, and giant butterfly-shaped kites to play with on the shore. Downstairs in the main house … Continue reading
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Tagged access, beach, British Library, butterfly, card, changing rooms, dinner, facilities, French, friend, Friends, guest, guesthouse, holiday, house, Isle of Lewis, kite shore, library, makeover, marble, membership, soak, toilers, venue, wave, waves
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