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Stuff I write when I’m travelling
about
Category: Channel 2026
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After four pleasant, if slightly pitching and rolling, hours, the ferry from Newhaven eventually glides into the harbour at Dieppe. And most passengers will immediately step on the gas – or in many cases the bike pedal – and head on into lovely Normandy to reach Paris and the warmer parts of France. But Dieppe…
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The last time I was in Brighton, I hopped on the train and took the short, picturesque ride to the small port town of Newhaven. Cut in two by the River Ouse, Newhaven rather scrappily straddles its way along the river down to the shingly beaches. Newhaven has had shingle trouble down the years. The…
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The last time I was in Brighton was in the summer of 2021. COVID restrictions were easing as vaccine coverage steadily improved across the nation, but the virus was still prevalent enough to make foreign travel pretty tricky. I had intended to therefore take a short break in York, and was all set to leave…
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