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A Day Trip to Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset
Clank! Clank! I’m a Tank! It is a fine and noble tradition that small boys, when playing “War” or “Cowboys and Indians” in the school playground, will yell at each other “Bang! Bang! You’re dead!”. The accepted response, if you didn’t want to die, is “Clank! Clank! I’m a Tank!” and you could continue to…
Oh hi there! I’m Jim!
Hi, I’m Jim – father of two, husband of one and my wife, Mel, nagged me to start the Lazy Guide to Travel because she was bored of reading overly energetic holiday reviews where people climbed mountains, hiked over sand dunes or backpacked round Europe whilst looking suspiciously immaculate and Instagram-worthy.
Where’s the blog for … you know … normal people who are always running late for the flight, pitch up with a half-packed bag and a half-formed plan, and who generally make it all up as they go along? Well, that’s here. That’s me.
Am I a professional travel blogger? Hahaha no, not by a long shot. I mean, sure, I’d like to be a travel blogger, but I’d also like to be Daniel Craig and perhaps also like to be a billionaire, but liking something sadly doesn’t make it so…
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15 Things To Do in Shoreditch – Fun Street Art, Museums and Markets
I recently had to visit Shoreditch for work, and even though I have been there many times, I had never really “visited” Shoreditch. I had a whole day to explore so I found myself googling the top things to do in Shoreditch. I was pleasantly surprised! A Brief History of Shoreditch Constantly touted as London’s…
Exploring the Van Gogh Immersive Experience – Step into a Starry Night
I admit it. I’m a heathen when it comes to the world of art. I honestly don’t know the difference between a Picasso and a piano and, until I was about 18, I genuinely thought Hertz Van Rental was a famous German composer of some note. In my 20s, I was once taken to see…
Hourtin Plage, France: A 10 Day Half Term Family Holiday for less than £2k!
It is an almost constant source of outrage to me that our society, in the Year of our Lord 2023, recognises that children need 3 weeks rest at Christmas, 2 weeks rest at Easter, 6 weeks rest over the Summer, plus weeklong half term breaks all over the place and Inset days scattered throughout the…