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Back in San Jose in Time for Soccer
We arrived back in San Jose on Friday evening after an uneventful and very pleasant flight from London Heathrow. After a good nights sleep we were off first thing on Saturday morning to see Eleanor's...
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Sunday Lunchtime at Wrights Station Winery
It was suggested by Fraser's neighbour Kelly that we should attend this Winery near Los Gatos on Sunday morning so a very pleasant short drive into the mountains took us to Wrights Station Winery. It...
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Out and About in San Jose
Saturday started early with Tommy at Baseball and he has improved such a lot since last year.On Friday evening Fraser and I had to mark the lines on the Soccer pitches that would be used by Eleanor's...
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A Family Visit to Yosemite National Park
We arrived in Yosemite National Park on Monday afternoon after a 4 hour drive from San Jose almost within 5 minutes of Fraser's in-laws Carlo & Sidne arriving from Mendon in Utah but their journey...
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Another Sunday another Vineyard
We started with a visit to Campbell farmers Market to buy food for a picnic and then headed to Chantelle Vineyard in the mountains near Saratoga. It was opened in the early 1900s by a French...
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A Visit to Stanford University
Leslie took us to Stanford University in Palo Alto this morning as it is one of the finest universities in the world. It is such an impressive campus with most of the students using bicycles to get...
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Bagging our 50th Island
As a celebration of my 70th Birthday later this month and my friend John Irving's in August we needed to bag a couple of more remote Scottish inhabited islands to reach our 50th island visited. We...
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Another Walk Through Westerhall
Its not often we get as many as 5 on our local walk as we have all been on out travels over the last couple of months. Today was a perfect day to walk from Bentpath to Langholm and see the Azaleas and...
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Walking in Aberdeenshire & The Banff Coast
Prior to our holiday in Orkney we spent a few days in Newmachar, Aberdeenshire with Gaye's friend Collett and enjoyed excellent hospitality and Tom and I had some excellent walks. Our first walk was...
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Officially I am Now an Old Man
Yesterday was my 70th Birthday so the family held a party in my honour with all my walking friends invited. Fiona was the driving force behind it and she made it such a special day by putting on a...
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Ardlui 63 Henry Street
Our house will shortly be on the market for sale as we are planning to downsize. We have been here for 30 years but it is time to move on and get a smaller house. This will make a lovely family home...
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Gavin and Peter's Birthday Walk
A combined Birthday Walk for Peter and myself with just John and Sandria managing to come down from Edinburgh. Peter collected them from Carlisle Station and the rest of us met them at Armathwaite to...
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A Beautiful Walk at Silloth
It was over 2 years ago since we last walked at Silloth and that had been in the middle of winter and not a very good day. Niall had not been to Silloth since his days with the Sunday School Trip. This...
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A Day out at Ribblehead
I like when a day goes to plan. We set of from Langholm at 7.45am and even Tom was on time. The plan was to catch the 8.55am train from Carlisle to Ribblehead on the Carlisle to Settle railway line. At...
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Walk 1 - Becks and Gaskells Walk
These photographs are taken from Walk 1 of the Langholm & Eskdale Walks Booklet and are to be used by the E & L as part of a feature on a regular basis of the 14 waymarked walks in this...
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A Bridge Too Far
Our original plan for todays walk was to do a route in Hawick but the forecast for this morning was bad so we postponed it until 12.30pm and instead opted for the Bridges of Langholm. Unfortunately due...
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A Boat Trip and a Dalbeattie Forrest Walk via Kippford & Rockcliffe
The morning started with John, Peter, Ken and myself going out on the Loch in the houses rowing boat. Talk about 4 men in a boat but it was great fun and hard work. Peter and John used the oars and Ken...
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A Walk to Sandgreen from Cally Palace for Day 2 of our Walking Holiday
Day 2 of our walking week and we headed out to Gatehouse of Fleet for a walk starting in the grounds of the Cally Palace  Hotel. The 8.4 mile circular walk took us to Sandgreen where the tide was in...
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Calaburn and Drinkstone Hill at the Second Attempt
In January 2016 we attempted this walk but after many discussions on the route we managed to go in the wrong direction. Peter was most annoyed over this and a week after he and Elizabeth explored the...
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A Rowanburn First for Niall
This 6 mile section of the Canonbie walk was selected for David as it is fairly level but unfortunately he had succumbed to an infection and was unable to be with us. It was only as we headed for...
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