I do love to travel alone (despite not going too far)

Actually I am quite proud to be a loner who does things as they come up – Another post from my new site Phils two years to forty. 

As you may have guessed I am a bit of a loner, not always but I often enjoy just going places on my own as it removes the pressure and stress everybody trying to decide what to do next.

Though I’m obviously not the only one who feels this way and a two second second search on Google naturally confirms this it was good to read an article in the Daily Mail about a model who feels the same, and more to the point it was refreshing to read the comments section which is usually less than forgiving on that particular site.

It’s great to actually read comments from other ‘real’ people who do enjoy going to concerts, bars, travelling and indeed eating on their own. My favourite bar is literally like a real world version of Cheers, and indeed I’ve often walked in to be greeted with ‘PHIL…’ Though I have sort of mentioned this in the previous post ‘Spontaneous me’

After reading just a few of the cool blogs here on WordPress it gives me so much inspiration. Once again I intend to spend a few days in Whitby, hopefully late November or early December. I’ve only ever been there during spring and summer and have yet to see it with the excellent moody weather. I’d love to wonder around the town as it was surrounded by fog, fading light and a black foreboding sky.

A recent stay in a Youth Hostel was such a great eye opener for me, as I stayed in a shared dorm (for the bargain price of £19 per night!) with breakfast included in the main dining room / cafe looking out on to the ruins of Whitby Abbey and an always open communal kitchen and dining room for other meals. I was got to meet some really nice, and perhaps most importantly a group of people who I would otherwise not have met.

Derbyshire Lost | Gold 12

T.G. Green Pottery.

“Hello, hello, baby you called? I can’t hear a thing”

August 2012 we decided to explore the T.G. Green pottery site in Swadlincote, Derbyshire. As this is located only a few miles from home it seemed a nice easy place to wonder around. What seemed like an easy day out soon turned out to be problem after problem, starting with the satnav that couldn’t locate it to the belt almost shearing in my car which drove both the power steering and also the fan for the radiator and cooling system. Normally this wouldn’t be too much of a problem in the UK, however this particular day was one of the hottest and the car was constantly just above ‘over heating’

The exploration would have gone better if it wasn’t for my pounding head and the awful humidity, we did get a few cool shots and my fellow explorer managed to find the gap in the fence though I tore my camera bag and jeans on the barbedwire surrounding it.