User:ThunderingTyphoons!/Trips archive

2021

 * December: Edinburgh, fulfilling a lifelong ambition.


 * September: Llanrhian in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park




 * July: York, Harrogate, and Knaresborough


 * May: Isle of Wight - it's the era of the hyperlocal staycation!

2020

 * September-October: Happisburgh, North Norfolk


 * September: The Shropshire Hills; possibly the last one


 * January: Brighton

2019

 * August-September: The Rhuys Peninsula, Brittany


 * June: Annual Shropshire Hills sojourn.


 * April-May: The Dieppe area of Normandy


 * January: Bath

2018

 * November: The NEC, Birmingham and Stafford


 * September: Lanzarote: a return to the Canaries after many years


 * July: The slightly-deserted (due to World Cup) Shropshire Hills in the middle of a heatwave.


 * February: Winster in the snowy Peak District

2017

 * November: Forest of Dean (first time I've seen a wild boar and a tawny owl!)


 * September-October: Bouzigues, Hérault


 * August: The ever-lovely Shropshire Hills and Pontcysyllte aqueduct (try saying that after a few pints!)


 * July: Bayeux and the D-Day Beaches, staying in Cerisy-la-Forêt


 * February: Derbyshire / Staffordshire borderlands, for the National Memorial Arboretum

2016

 * August - September: Mirepoix, Ariège


 * July: The Shropshire Hills and Montgomeryshire


 * May: Stafford


 * May: Barcelona
 * April: Chester and Liverpool


 * April: Jurassic Coast (the Devonian part)

2015

 * November: The Black Mountains near Hay on Wye
 * September: Bàscara, near Figueres

2014-15 year abroad

 * September 2014 - August 2015: A year in Tours, in the Loire Valley.ː


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 * July 2015: Bordeaux and Toulouse


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 * May 2015: Alsace, Basel and the Black Forest


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 * April 2015: Madrid Easter weekend

2014

 * September: Barmouth, the Rhinogs and the Mawddach Estuary

2013

 * September: Cabo de Gata and Alfaix in Almería


 * June: The Shropshire Hills
 * May: Liverpool
 * February: Kent

2012

 * July: Arles-sur-Tech in Pyrénées-Orientales
 * March: Rouen in Normandy. Also paid my fourth visit to Paris and a first to Dieppe and Honfleur

2011

 * August: Turunç, a small town near but very unlike the resort of Marmaris (second visit)