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Llangollen Railway
Wednesday 9th August 2013 We travelled back from our week at Great Nan’s today and Daddy Keating once again decided to take the scenic route through Wales as opposed to taking the dull motorways. This allowed us to stop a couple of times along the journey for a break and for daddy to drag us…
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Rhymney and Family
Friday 2nd August 2013 Today was a slow day where we wouldn’t be traveling far and would spend time with extended Welsh family. In the morning Daddy took a couple of short walks around Rhymney village. Firstly he carried Ben on a 3 mile tour up the hill past the village of Bute and the…
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Lazy Tintern Days
Thursday 1st August 2013 While the children slept, and Leigh knitted, Daddy drove from Cardiff to Monmouthshire (passing briefly out of Wales and then back in again) to take everyone to Tintern. Tintern, famed for its Abbey, is a delightful small town, but Daddy wasn’t here to see the wonderful ruin but to take everyone…
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Whotastic
Thursday 1st August 2013 This is the first real day of our weeklong break with Great Nan in Wales. Today Daddy Keating wanted to try and get into the Dr Who Experience once again. So with little fanfare everyone was bundled into the car and we went to Cardiff. The parking was easy enough and…
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Ravenglass to Eskdale
Saturday, 27th July 2013 Once again we travelled to Skiddaw and the beautiful hall where Jane was staying to collect her for a full day of holiday with the Family Keating. After a short pause to collect her we drove around the coastline of Cumbria in glorious weather to Ravenglass to take the Eskdale-Ravenglass steam…
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La La Legoland
Wednesday and Thursday, 3rd-4th July 2013 This week we went to LegoLand, Windsor, as part of Ben’s Birthday Celebrations. I risk the ire of my friends who live in the south as I write this who would have loved to see us but the schedule was way to fierce for me to contemplate any other…
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Ullswater Steamers
Saturday, 20th July 2013 Today we once again bounced (such a lovely term whereas it means that Daddy drove us into the lake district in the beloved workhorse, Korra) to the north lakes and the Eden valley. Our destination was weather dependent and would either be the always charming Rhegged Centre or Ullswater for a…
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Whitehaven Wandering
Wednesday, 24th July 2013 In the afternoon, after we had dropped Jane at Cockermouth, we went with Jess and James into Cockermouth for a short lunch before a travel to the Cumbria coastline. In Cockermouth we found a small music shop where we purchased a cheap Yukelele for Benjamin as he keeps on wanting to…
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Derwent Water
Wednesday 24th July Today the family Keating travelled to Keswick to meet with Jane who was staying a week near Skiddaw. We kidnapped her from the lovely Ormathwaite Hall where she was staying (which had a lovely view over Borrowdale) and headed into Keswick for the morning. Borrowdale is such a strong Tolkien-esque name, you…
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Sunny times at Nana’s House
Saturday 13 July 2013 Leigh wanted to go to a Camp Nano meeting today so Markie and the boys decided to take a trip to see Nana and visit the convalescing Auntie Kathryn. It was another sunny day, in fact it was the warmest seen this year, so far, in Newton. It was an easy…