Hamburg and other North German adventures with Hastings Battleaxe.

They all blur into one – Rathauses, Hauptbahnhofs, Doms, Schlosses, Grosmarkts… We are just back from Germany, starting in Hamburg, then on to Hannover, with visits to Braunschweig and Hildesheim.  Walked miles, had traumatic encounter…

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Alexandra Park – Miniature railway and wild garlic

Hastings Battleaxe readers will know that each year, we make a pilgrimage to the very top corner of Alexandra Park to visit the wild garlic wood.  Even though we had seen such a fantastic display…

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Hole Park Gardens – totally fabulous and magical

People have told me that Hole Park Garden is a ‘must visit’ for the bluebells, but Battleaxe hadn’t realised just what a wonderful place it is.  We went just in time to catch the bluebells…

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Poetry, Pier and Jack-in-the-Green. Busy in Hastings Battleaxe Land!

Have been insanely busy since I last did a blog post – this is more like a diary entry…. Last week we went to London for the day to visit daughter Anna, I went on…

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Dungeness and Camber Sands – what a lot to learn!

The spring seems to have vanished for the moment, and when we went on an outing to Dungeness and Camber Sands with our old friend Bill, it was very cold and windy.    We started…

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