Tweet The first port of call on our cruise on Quantum of the Seas from Shanghai was Nagasaki, Japan, and we were there on August 10 – the day after the 70th anniversary of…
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Tweet Nearly every other person you meet in Ireland will tell you they’re somehow connected to the Irish freedom fighter Michael Collins. We’d grown up hearing that we were related to ‘The General’, but…
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Tweet When No 1 Son was starting to learn about the First World War at school he came home one day with the inevitable question: “did we have any family members who fought in…
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Tweet The final stop on our Grand Tour was Ephesus, Turkey, somewhere No 1 Son had always wanted to go, not least because of its proximity to the Temple of Artemis, one of the…
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Tweet From the moment he discovered the Horrible Histories books by Terry Deary, No 1 Son was completely hooked. Rotten Romans, Terrible Tudors, and the rest, he read them all, cover to cover, and…