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Beside the seaside! Beside the sea!

On Friday afternoon I was on the tube heading out of Hammersmith when a guy got on holding a bag of chips wrapped in newspaper and by the smell, I am guessing they had been smothered with vinegar and salt.

The smell that filled the entire train was just AMAZING and you could tell that everybody on the train was now envious of this highly unhealthy but mouth-wateringly delicious food.

Skip forward 24 hours and it’s a Saturday morning in January. It is a clear and sunny but very cold day. What are we going to do today?

My mind wandered back to the man with the chips. The thought of chips led my imagination to thoughts of sitting at the end of the pier eating chips from a newspaper because chips (and fish) always taste better at the seaside. Indeed the very smell conjures up images of beaches, amusement arcades and so on.

We’re going to the seaside!

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2011 – Well?

So back in January I blogged These are not my New Years resolutions and set out what I wanted to achieve and see in the coming 12 months and here we are at the end of 2011 so lets have a look at how the year turned out.

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Frankfurt Christmas Market (in Birmingham)

I got told about the Frankfurt Christmas Market.

To be fair, it is a fairly typical German Market that you find in most German towns and cities at this time of the year with one noticable difference. About 10 years ago, somebody came up with the bright idea of lifting the whole thing up and moving it (and it’s stall holders) to Birmingham!

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Brugge – October 2011

So armed with a spare set of Eurotunnel tickets a trip was called for.

This time, Brugge in Belgium which is only 90 minutes drive up the motorway from Calais.

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BTCC Finals 2011 @ Silverstone

So Sam wanted to see some motor racing (and so did I) so on a cold October morning we headed over to Silverstone to catch some action at the British Touring Car Championship 2011 finals.

There was a full day of racing including the Porsche Cup

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