It would have been the year 1959, as I recall, that commercial television came to Tyneside. Before that we only had one television channel, the BBC, and that broadcasting in black and white only from 1700 to 2300. The hours for Independent Television (ITV) were the same as those for the BBC, but the channel,Continue reading “Blog 141. The Great Alka-Seltzer Experiment”
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Blog 7. Passage to Australia. La Réunion and Mauritius
Day 25 Friday 3 February and we are in France, or rather part of it: La Réunion. As mentioned in the last blog, we are in the port with the original name, Le Port. It is a very small commercial harbour (think Seaham Harbour with sunshine) which we only just managed to squeeze into andContinue reading “Blog 7. Passage to Australia. La Réunion and Mauritius”
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