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Mike and Ellen's Travel Adventures

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  • Glossop to Blackpool: rumination of The Illuminations

    Glossop to Blackpool: rumination of The Illuminations

    18 September 2025 Today we would fulfill one of Mike’s childhood wishes: to see The Blackpool Illuminations. As a child his grandmother brought he and his siblings here in the summertime. They walked on The Prom (promenade), played on the beach and ate Rock (candy sticks with the letters “BLACKPOOL” running through it). He’d heard Read more

  • Glossop: feeling at home

    Glossop: feeling at home

    10-18 September 2025 I now realize that I have three homes: Somerville, Bay Head, and Glossop. We come so often to this little town in the north of England, particularly during the last three years, that I have come to love it dearly. The shops, the tall green hills, the Parker Family home, the Derbyshire Read more