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Mission Hills is China’s highest rated golf and leisure resort, and the world’s largest golf club according to the Guinness World Records. The 20-square kilometre golf complex features twelve 18-hole resort and championship courses designed...
After visiting very populous cities in China it was refreshing to see a more rural side around Guilin and Yangshuo. The area is well known for the karst (limestone) peaks rearing up from rice...
We arrived in Chongqing too late in the day to do much sightseeing, though we did manage to get a good look at it from the air and on the journey from the airport....
Best known as the home of the Terra Cotta Warriors, Xi’an is also remarkable for its strong Muslim influences due to its position at the start of the ancient Silk Road trading route. It...
Apart from the many flights, both domestic and international, that I have had over the years in the standard big jets, be they Boeing 707s, 727s, 747s, 767s or Airbus A330s and A380s, I...
A family birthday was the occasion for our drive, once again, to the Mornington Peninsula wine region, about an hour south of Melbourne. This region is known for producing high quality cool climate varieties,...
Firenze, or Florence, is the capital of Tuscany and to my mind, the cultural capital of Italy. Considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, it was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and...
Destinations / England / Road Trips / United Kingdom
Getting back to my roots in Lancashire & Yorkshire
January 12, 2021
