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I’ve not been away since the epic trek from Athens to Budapest, that saw me narrowly miss a car bomb in Bulgaria, and get pounced on by the Bucharest security guards as I took pictures of Ceausescu’s dirt grave.
So it was quite exciting to be setting off for a week long break, heightened somewhat by the fact Volkswagen had lent us a rather smooth and quite expensive car from its press review fleet.
The weather, as predicted, was abysmal, and our four hour journey to a valley with neither broadband nor mobile phone coverage took closer to seven. Still, the welcome was warm, the cottage was dry and, once the clouds parted, the views opened up to reveal a magnificent Pennine vista. We had sheep and rabbits in the garden, a dry stone wall running along one side of us and a brook just beyond the stones that, as with all the best cliches, babbled to itself quite happily.
Needless to say, after such a journey we did very little with what remained of the day but head into Consett for some food, bring it back home and cook it, before settling down to decode the poorly-remembered rules to cribbage and look forward to the week ahead.
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