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Exploring New Zealand’s South Island : Our Campervan Adventure Part 10
This was a long day’s leisurely drive, initially in cloudy but bright conditions but which then settled into a continuous downpour but ended with one of our few meals out in New Zealand that boasted a taste that was memorable … more …
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Exploring New Zealand’s South Island : Our Campervan Adventure Part 9
The weather stayed fine after our day at Milford Sound. So due to the fact that to get to our next destination we had to double back on ourselves and go back down highway 94 , we were able to revisit the places that had been previously draped in cloud and rain. more …
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Exploring New Zealand’s South Island : Our Campervan Adventure Part 8
In this post, we embarked on the cruise that is the most iconic of all cruises in New Zealand, that of Milford Sound. We also visited a few other places along the way including part of the Kepler Track more …
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Who was England’s Greatest Ruler:The Final Result!
In this last part of the series, we will look at how the competition progressed, and who was voted The Greatest Ruler of England! more …
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Who Was England’s Greatest Ruler? Whittling down the Contestants
In this post we will look at the first round of the competition with a short summary of all the rulers, and then see how each of them faired in the competition in Round 1. more …
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Who Was England’s Greatest Ruler? A Fun Podcast Vote
Part 1 : How The History of England Podcast members decided once and for all, who was The “Greatest Ruler of England”? Even if you are not a true-born red blooded Englishman or Englishwoman or other, you no doubt are aware the you need to know more about the history of the nation that… more …
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Exploring New Zealand’s South Island : Our Campervan Adventure Part 7
If you are on a budget of either time or money, or both perhaps, and you can only do one cruise in New Zealand, then personally I recommend that you do the Doubtful Sound cruise. more …
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Trans-Women are not Women
Left wing progressive ideology is so often self-defeating. It took the UK Supreme Court to spell out to the left-wing progressives what the rest of society already knew. more …
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Trump and Women
One thing I have learnt from turning into a history nerd is that there are very few people, if any in history who have no redeeming features or whose every decision is a wrong one, or whose every decision has a negative consequence. more …
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Exploring New Zealand’s South Island: Our Campervan Adventure Part 6
We had arrived on Stewart Island early evening, it was still light, just but the evening was getting old, Sandra was tired, as was I having been up very early for our Shark Adventure, and it seemed like a bit of a trek to the AirBnB where we were staying, a cabin in the… more …
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