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Vintage France – Avoriaz ski resort and the French Alps in 1978
Tourism Geography for the wealthy. This was a very pleasant location and the whole resort was well designed and laid out, with impressive multi-storey timber buildings everywhere.
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Vintage Switzerland – Geneva: city and modern housing developments in 1978
Geneva and a giant Swiss housing development in the style of Le Corbusier. And a picture of me at the top of Europe!
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UFO/No Sound Is Too Taboo – a superb album you will not find on streaming services
Some of the best albums are not available on streaming services – No Sound Is Too Taboo is one of them and is not only excellent but certainly lives up to its name.
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Imagine a river with gentle sloping banks, boats, gardens and cafés running through the centre of Newton Abbot. It nearly happened.
An 1870 plan covered the river Lemon and ended any opportunity for Newton Abbot to have a river with sloping banks, flower beds and cafés as its central feature.
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Even after retirement the dread of going into work on Monday still haunts me; why is working life often so unpleasant?
I enjoyed about 10 years or so of my working life. The rest was dull or unpleasant; perhaps I am just unlucky, but poor management seems to have played a role.
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Vintage France: Lyon, St.Etienne/Chambles & Injoux-Genissiat
1978: a bunch of geography students descend on France & Switzerland but this is no ordinary trip – we were visiting some pretty obscure places, ostensibly to learn… A trip in 4 parts.
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