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Part 5 – Lucca to Trieste
Distance : 383km Travel time : 6 hours Lucca is so well connected with railway lines, you can travel in and out one of three ways. The most popular is from Pisa, but to the west the line stretches out to the pretty coastal town of Viareggio, and to the east it follows the sceni…
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Heading East
Ahh, East Midlands Airport; how I’ve missed you. I say “missed” in a way akin to missing a case of the squits. You never quite know when they’re going to come back, but boy do you know about it when they do. In fairness we should remember that barely two years ago flying anywhere from…
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Here’s the latest…
Atlanta knows its place when it comes to reporting the latest news about Covid-19, because it’s the global headquarters for CNN, the Cable News Network established back in 1980, long before anyone realised the potential power of a single broadcaster covering the entire planet. Its main building is on Ted Turner Drive – named after…
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Child’s Play
Like many children who grew up in the 1970s, my after-school TV viewing consisted of an hour or so (at best) of programmes I wanted to see, followed by a short cartoon (Paddington or Roobarb), then it was “out of the room, dad’s watching the news”. Kids today have never had it so good, with…
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Music To My Ears
The headlines are rightly focussing on the Government’s deal to make the BBC pick up the tab for paying the Licence Fees of the over 75s. But yesterday also saw a smaller, yet significant announcement that could ultimately shape one of the services the BBC provides to you. And it’s personal, because it happens to…
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Purdahtory
So the election is over, and thank goodness for that. Not that it hasn’t been an entertaining experience. As ever, I was tasked with trying to make an everyday constituency sound interesting – and I did by bit. I also juggled with the dilemma of promoting “non political” stories beyond their usual station so we…
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Czech Out Time
Over the last few weeks my timeline has been littered with the japes of various friends going off on holiday. Destinations have ranged from the predictable to the exotic, but none has caught my eye quite so much as a trip codenamed #opbratwurst. I have no idea if tapping this into Twitter will produce any…
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