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We’ve moved…

Posted on August 27, 2014 by roland ladley

Hi everyone, This site is closed.  However, C and I are now fulltiming In Doris, our new home.  You can find us at the.wanderlings on google (WordPress won’t let me put a link in, sorry). Thanks for visiting.

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Slow down for goodness sake!

Posted on January 23, 2012 by roland ladley

I blame the rain for making us dash from Calais to Milan in under a week. We had made it clear from the start: we would take things slowly this time. So six countries in as many days was not … Continue reading →

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A Germanesque journey…….

Posted on January 22, 2012 by roland ladley

Pay attention as I’ve got a lot to get through.  Since leaving Slovenia we’ve been on a bit of a Germanesque journey:  Austrian lake; Salzburg; Königsee, Regensburg and finally Nürnburg.  Actually as I write we are sat besides the Rhine … Continue reading →

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I feel S’love’nia

Posted on January 21, 2012 by roland ladley

Do you know where Georgia is? No, not Georgia US, but Georgia the satellite Russian state? Or Monrovia? I know that Georgia is a south western appendage to Russia and that it lies on the eastern side of one of … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Cities

Posted on January 21, 2012 by roland ladley

Do you know that if you draw an imaginary circle with a radius of 200 miles and place its centre on Vienna, you will capture five other capital cities?  Prague, Bratislava, Zagreb, Ljubljana and Budapest are the five.  I’ve not … Continue reading →

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They Build Them Big in Hungary

Posted on January 1, 2011 by roland ladley

We left Poland in the rain driving south over the Western Carpathians Mountains into a net curtain of grey.  It was a shame as it looked like the views could be pretty, in a Polish sort of way.  The moment … Continue reading →

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Auschwitz

Posted on November 19, 2010 by roland ladley

I didn’t really want to go to Auschwitz. I’d done Belsen in Germany twice before and had seen the grizzly photographs of piles of waif-like bodies in huge burial piles waiting for the lime. I’d experienced the deafening silence that … Continue reading →

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