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THE PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY
A road journey from LOS ANGELES to CARMEL
DECEMBER 27, 2012 - JANUARY 3, 2013

THE PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY
A road journey from LOS ANGELES to CARMEL
DECEMBER 27, 2012 - JANUARY 3, 2013

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'We were going to change everything, of course, but mostly we were going to change the rules.'
22 January 2022 There is still some confusion about my flight home and I've been onto Qantas by phone for hours; it's been a futile...
Janette Frawley
Mar 6, 20224 min read
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'I was overwhelmed by a shock of breathless delight at the originality and beauty of the interior.'
21 January 2022 My time in London is coming to an end and despite getting a short reprieve of one day due to a cancelled flight, I must...
Janette Frawley
Feb 16, 20225 min read
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'Tea. Both soothing and uplifting, a salve and a sharpener, the morning jolt and the evening's end.'
20 January 2022 The Number 63 bus is almost my best friend! I'm sure I haven't had to wait for any longer for five minutes for it to...
Janette Frawley
Feb 10, 20224 min read
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'There is a wonderfully exquisite/uber-kitsch Egyptian escalator at the centre of the building.'
19 January 2022 What a wonderful trip this has been! It has been made sweeter because I've finally been able to shake off the shackles of...
Janette Frawley
Feb 6, 20225 min read
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'Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities; that of race and that of soul.'
16 January 2022 Today is yet another beautiful, clear Irish Winter's day and I have four hours to drive from Kilkee to Newgrange, the...
Janette Frawley
Feb 3, 20224 min read
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'There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met.'
13 January 2022 Ireland is a magical, mystical place. It has a long, diverse, and troubled history, yet the people here are like no other...
Janette Frawley
Jan 29, 20225 min read
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'I went to Cork and stood on the dock some of my ancestors left from. I felt their ghosts...'
11 January 2022 On a whim, I decide to travel to Ireland since most restrictions have been lifted. Fares on Ryanair are cheap. It’s the...
Janette Frawley
Jan 28, 20225 min read
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'Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey.'
8 January 2022 The magical Winter-wonderland landscape has disappeared and is replaced with lush green partitioned pastures on this...
Janette Frawley
Jan 27, 20226 min read
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'I chose this valley, said the tree to the wall; stretching my roots under your scored foundations.'
7 January 2022 Within an hour of leaving sunny Whitby, big splodges of soft ice splatter the windscreen. Minutes later the soft sleet...
Janette Frawley
Jan 20, 20223 min read
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'I want to flit my eyes like skipping feet over red-top tiny crooked houses, down tiny crooked lanes
Is it cheating to drive to the Whitby Abbey carpark? Not the way we have planned our day. We DID drive up to the Abbey carpark. But the...
Janette Frawley
Jan 17, 20224 min read
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'I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.'
Have you ever travelled to a place with great expectations and then felt a sense of disappointment when you arrived? This is how I feel...
Janette Frawley
Jan 16, 20224 min read
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'Travel far and wide and you should possess the secrets of man'
3 January 2022 Great excitement today as we board a train for York. Despite only being able to secure 'backward' seats, somehow it...
Janette Frawley
Jan 13, 20222 min read
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'Nothing ventured, nothing gained'
30 December 2021 The train speeds through the Kent countryside; strange round-shaped buildings litter the countryside and pique my...
Janette Frawley
Jan 12, 20225 min read
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Happy New Year
31 December, 2021 Tonight, New Year’s Eve, we climb Dawson’s Hill not far from Natasha’s home. She assures me that from this vantage...
Janette Frawley
Jan 10, 20222 min read
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Fairy lights on Winter nights
29 December 2021 I don't mind admitting that we had a fairly lazy day today. I ventured out alone; a set of directions saved to my phone...
Janette Frawley
Jan 2, 20223 min read
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'The Thames is liquid history'
27 December 2021 Managing to make a perfect connection between bus and train, we arrive at the historic London Bridge station in record...
Janette Frawley
Jan 2, 20224 min read
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'We all have a dinosaur within us just trying to get out.'
26 December 2021 Just a short bus ride away is Crystal Palace Park, a huge park that is famous for more than being the home of the...
Janette Frawley
Jan 1, 20223 min read
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Merry Christmas
25 December 2021 We procrastinate. Do we prepare lunch or an early dinner? It's Christmas Day but somehow I'm not fazed about whether we...
Janette Frawley
Dec 29, 20213 min read
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Out at last!
24 December 2021 The negative result of my PCR test arrived last night, which means that my forty-eight hours of isolation have...
Janette Frawley
Dec 28, 20212 min read
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Arrived - safe and sound....
There isn't much one can say about a flight that lasts more than seventeen hours. COVID has changed the face of world travel and I am...
Janette Frawley
Dec 28, 20212 min read
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