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I’m a life-long learner with an insatiable curiosity about life. I love travel, good food, and good company. I’m happy to share what I know with others….even the interesting stuff! My outlook on life is pretty well captured in this quote from a book about the legend of King Arthur: “You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn!” ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
The Best University Application Ever?
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The Best University Application Ever?

Stephen DaleAugust 9, 2013October 12, 2020
Now and again I come across something so "off the wall" and esoteric that I'm never quite sure what to do with it. As a life-long fan of Monty Python,...
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Later In Life
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Later In Life

Stephen DaleJune 17, 2013October 12, 2020
The following truisms arose from some of those who are perhaps not in the first flush of youth (I qualify!): I started out with nothing, and still have most of...
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Fiftees Food Nostalgia

Stephen DaleMay 11, 2013October 10, 2020
For those old enough to remember what eating was like in the UK in the 1950's (and I do!).... Pasta had not been invented. Curry was an unknown entity. Olive...
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Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, the Azores: and then (finally) home!
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Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, the Azores: and then (finally) home!

Stephen DaleFebruary 11, 2013October 11, 2020

It was a relatively short ‘hop’ from Faial to Sao Miguel, the largest of the islands in the Azores Archipelago, which was accomplished overnight, so we arrived early in the morning of Saturday 9th February. This is prime dolphin and whale-watching…

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Horta, Faial Island, the Azores
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Horta, Faial Island, the Azores

Stephen DaleFebruary 10, 2013October 11, 2020

We arrived at Horta, capital of Faial Island in the Azores on the afternoon of Friday, 8th February, after five days at sea, crossing a fairly benign Atlantic from Barbados. Faial is one of the nine islands that make up the Archipelago of the Azor…

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Bridgetown, Barbados – and farewell to the West Indies!
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Bridgetown, Barbados – and farewell to the West Indies!

Stephen DaleFebruary 7, 2013October 11, 2020

We arrived in Bridgetown, Barbados on Saturday 2nd February. This is our last port of call in the West Indies before starting our homeward leg across the vast Atlantic. After Barbados we can look forward to (!) five days at sea before arriving at …

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Castries, St Lucia, West Indies.

Stephen DaleFebruary 6, 2013October 11, 2020

We arrived at St Lucia in the morning of Friday 1st February after an overnight cruise from St Vincent. One of the Windward Islands, it was named after Saint Lucy of Syracuse by the French, the first European colonisers. They signed a treaty with …

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Kingstown, St Vincent, the Grenadines

Stephen DaleFebruary 5, 2013October 10, 2020

We arrived at Kingstown, St Vincent early in the morning of Thursday, 31st January after an overnight cruise from St George’s, Granada. The island is the largest of the Grenadines, technically part of the Winward Islands, which are themselves part…

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Granada, “Spice of the Caribbean”, and spicy gossip!

Stephen DaleFebruary 4, 2013October 10, 2020

Continuing my travelogue of our epic cruise from Tilbury, to the Amazon, the West Indies and the Azores (and ultimately back to Tilbury). I should be writing about our experience in Granada, where we arrived on the morning of Wednesday 30th Januar…

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Iles du Salut, French Guiana (Devil’s Island..and Papillon has gone!)

Stephen DaleJanuary 29, 2013October 10, 2020

We made a brief (half-day) stop at the Iles du Salut on Monday 28th January.The Îles du Salut (in English: Islands of Health, so called because the missionaries went there to escape plague on the mainland) are a group of small islands of volcanic …

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