by Ian Ferris | Dec 10, 2018
We took a very pleasant four-hour Brittany Ferries crossing to Cherbourg, had breakfast and a nap onboard, before driving to Sainte-Mere Eglise, the village onto which two plane-loads of US paratroopers were dropped in error the night before D-Day, including Private...
by Ian Ferris | Nov 28, 2018
Bletchley Park (or ‘Station X’) near Milton Keynes was the secret site that housed the British Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) during World War II, which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers, most importantly, the German...
by Ian Ferris | Nov 14, 2018
The next day we drove to Bournemouth to see Joanna Lumley in her one-woman show “It’s All About Me”. And it was. But before I review that I must talk about our lunch at a restaurant called The Crab, a Bournemouth seafood eatery, which was at one time, we...
by Ian Ferris | Nov 14, 2018
Mostly, I’ve found, things don’t always go quite as one expects, for good or for bad, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health. The unexpected happens, a piece doesn’t fall into place, a wrong turning is taken, something wrong is said, a trip doesn’t quite...
by Ian Ferris | Oct 1, 2018
Our bike was already on its stand outside the front doors of the Riders showroom in Bridgwater when we arrived, a beautiful metallic cherry-red 2018 Harley Davidson Ultra Glide Classic. A huge machine with a lovely faring and windshield, causing passing traffic and...
