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Happy Anniversary Trish Takes Five

Trish Burgess Posted on30/01/201906/02/2019 Lincolnshire Free Press, newspaper, Trish Takes Five, writing 6 Comments
TRish with Wallace on the gromit Unleashed 2 sculpture trail

Five years ago I started writing my regular weekly column, Trish Takes Five, in the Lincolnshire Free Press. I suppose I should get myself a gift for my 5th anniversary. If it was a...

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How to spend a few hours in Honfleur

Trish Burgess Posted on24/01/201904/07/2019 France, Honfleur, Normandy, river cruise, U by Uniworld 41 Comments
Vieux Bassin in Honfleur, France

I don’t know what possessed us to tackle the strenuous hike from the centre of Honfleur up to Mont-Joli. It was a sweltering hot day during the heatwave of 2018. I was unsuitably dressed...

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Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny in summer

Trish Burgess Posted on13/01/201906/06/2019 Claude Monet's Garden, France, Giverny, river cruise, Summer in Monet's Garden, U by Uniworld 42 Comments
Dark pink flowers in Monet's garden

It was a hot, cloudless day at the end of June. Dougie and I had already spent the morning kayaking 15km on the River Eure, a tributary of the Seine. We changed out of...

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An afternoon at the Gardens of Versailles

Trish Burgess Posted on31/12/201802/05/2019 France, Gardens of Versailles, river cruise, U by Uniworld, Versailles 28 Comments
Latona's fountain, Versailles

The first stop on our U by Uniworld river cruise this summer was Conflans-Saint-Honorine. We had boarded our ship, The B, in Paris the previous day and the ship sailed overnight down the Seine...

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A day in Rouen – photo tour

Trish Burgess Posted on28/12/201804/04/2019 France, Normandy, river cruise, Rouen, Things to do in Rouen, U by Uniworld 32 Comments
Flowers in Rouen street

Rouen was one of the stops on our U by Uniworld river cruise, The Seine Experience . Our ship was moored very close to the city centre, making it easy to freely explore during...

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A Christmas shopping break in York

Trish Burgess Posted on14/12/201814/12/2018 Christmas shopping in York, York, Yorkshire 5 Comments

It was a spur of the moment decision to book a couple of nights away, mid-November, to start our Christmas shopping. I wanted somewhere that would put me in the festive mood, a city...

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Mum’s Gone To: The Kelpies and The Falkirk Wheel

Trish Burgess Posted on04/12/201811/01/2019 Scotland, The Falkirk Wheel, The Kelpies 13 Comments
The Kelpies in Falkirk

I seem to have a thing for sculptures at the moment. Recently I wrote about the artwork we found at Thorpe Meadows in Peterborough: 17 sculptures by the River Nene. Festival Boat might have looked a...

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Discovering sculptures in Thorpe Meadows, Peterborough

Trish Burgess Posted on26/11/201830/11/2018 Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Sculptures in Peterborough 14 Comments
sculpture of a wolf, Quarry, by Simon Perry

Ever since we moved to South Lincolnshire in the late 1980s I’ve paid regular visits to Ferry Meadows in Peterborough. I used to meet a friend of mine there with our children; initially in...

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