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A travel blog for life's journey
Welcome to NHS on the Run, a travel blog and so much more. You will be part of our journeys and adventures in general as we move into retirement. There will be nothing elderly or slow paced about our lives.
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Hong Kong 2025 ... poorer, fatter, and shorter
After a month in the Philippines it is time for us to gently wend our way homewards, but first we went to Hong Kong...
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Mar 54 min read
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Bohol Philippines 2025 final leg
Our trip to the Philipinnes has been a wonderful escape from winter in the UK. It's been a month since we arrived in Manila ...
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Feb 266 min read
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Mid travel homesick blues. Moalboal and Siquijor - Philipinnes 2025
We were in Moalboal, travellers paradise. Home of the sardine run. I hired a scooter. You write the rest.
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Feb 233 min read
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Backpacker goals - Tao tour - Philippines February 2025 - El Nido to Coron
The travelling spirit is very much alive and well and reassuringly accessible to anyone of any age prepared to risk it.
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Feb 155 min read
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Palawan - escape from the city.
We have our first clothing casualty. I bought a dry bag. It seems obvious to everyone else, except me, that this is for dry goods......
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Feb 75 min read
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A fillip from the Philippines.
Mad Manila; a two day stay on the way to the Philippines less mental island's.
mbwatts
Feb 24 min read
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2024: Our year at NHSontheRun
So it's a relief that as we reach the new year I can simply look back at our blogs from this year and reflect on what's happened.
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Jan 111 min read
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The Maldives 2024
Last time we came to the Maldives was 1989. We return 35 years later more in hope than expectation.
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Dec 2, 20244 min read
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Carry on Camping
The partially deflated softness of the mattress was gradually worsened by a slow puncture.
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Aug 20, 20243 min read
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Montreux Jazz Festival 2024
Montreux is a festival you are more likely to go to by Bentley than Ford Transit campervan.
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Jul 31, 20244 min read
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Van Nessa goes on to live with real vanlifers!
We sell Nessa and look forward to what is coming next. Selling turns out to be emotional.
mbwatts
Jul 5, 20243 min read
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Porthminster to Portugal - fish heaven
Cornwall and Portugal both famous for their fish. Which will have the best?
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Jun 19, 20248 min read
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South India-Kerala - honeymoon revisited
Back in India, looking at the fishing beach and feeling so comfortable here, it was the perfect place to reflect on our honeymoon.
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Mar 17, 20245 min read
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South India : Madurai, Tamil Nadu - and carbon copy bookkeeping
Between each sheet of the ledger she places a thin blue sheet. I recognised it, but its name takes longer to come, carbon copy paper...
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Mar 13, 20245 min read
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South India - Leaving Pondicherry and the importance of Mr Kumar
Pondicherry is memorable for so much more than photograph's. Most of all we will miss the happy ambitious Tamil people we met.
mbwatts
Mar 9, 20244 min read
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Serenity Beach, Puducherry India
Serenity Beach. One of hundreds of Bay of Bengal fishing communities. Our home for a month now, a staycation so very far from home.
mbwatts
Feb 27, 20248 min read
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Pondicherry - India : no longer "eat to survive"
Now settled in Pondi. In this blog I shall confront my own (prejudiced) low expectations of Indian food hygiene.
mbwatts
Feb 23, 20245 min read
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Pondicherry - drive to survive
I haven't managed to get footage that shows the pant soiling terror of driving here. But perhaps driving is a metaphor for life in India.
mbwatts
Feb 21, 20243 min read
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Pondicherry - Nous sommes arrivés
Settling in in Pondi. Puducherry. South east India. Culture shock is gradually subsiding and we are establishing a lazy and lovely routine.
mbwatts
Feb 11, 20244 min read
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South India - what's not to like?
Please think of this blog as a toasted open shit sandwich. Which, come to think of it, is actually a pretty good analogy for India.
mbwatts
Feb 6, 20243 min read
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