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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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Jan 111 min read
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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mbwatts
Dec 26, 20242 min read
Dr Mick Watts - my next steps!
My recent blog entitled Leaving Datchet Health Centre was read by two thousand patients of Datchet Health Centre (DHC).
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mbwatts
Aug 26, 20242 min read
Leaving Datchet Health Centre (DHC) 2024
my reason for writing anything at this time is simply to say thanks to everyone who has made my career at Datchet such a joy.....
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mbwatts
Aug 20, 20243 min read
Carry on Camping
The partially deflated softness of the mattress was gradually worsened by a slow puncture.
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mbwatts
Jul 31, 20244 min read
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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mbwatts
Jul 5, 20243 min read
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.
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mbwatts
Jun 19, 20248 min read
Porthminster to Portugal - fish heaven
Cornwall and Portugal both famous for their fish. Which will have the best?
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mbwatts
Mar 17, 20245 min read
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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mbwatts
Mar 13, 20245 min read
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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mbwatts
Mar 9, 20244 min read
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.
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mbwatts
Feb 27, 20248 min read
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.
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mbwatts
Feb 23, 20245 min read
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.
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mbwatts
Feb 11, 20244 min read
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.
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mbwatts
Feb 6, 20243 min read
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.
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mbwatts
Feb 4, 20242 min read
A Bullshitters guide to the Indian test cricket
Conversational cricket for the uninitiated
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mbwatts
Nov 6, 20233 min read
100 Press Ups a day for November 2023 - NHSOTR fund raiser for cancer research
Mick does 100 press ups a day for Cancer research
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mbwatts
Oct 26, 20233 min read
Indian summer, the beach in West Wittering and a short break to Cyprus
Having almost fallen out of love with our camper Van Nessa, we thoroughly enjoy short trip to the seaside. Perhaps this is the way forward?
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mbwatts
Sep 2, 20233 min read
London. Speedboat Bar and being half blind.
A day out in London. Recovery after eye surgery. The Speedboat Bar London
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mbwatts
Aug 16, 20236 min read
Just Stop Campervan W#nkers
Further thoughts after our campervan trip to Europe. An attempt to look at the pros and cons of vanlife
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