Foreign Perspectives

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Isn’t it strange the way that when someone you’ve not seen in several years appears on the scene, it’s as though the years between didn’t exist?

I’ve just had quite an enjoyable night chatting with an old work colleage (DG) who’s staying with us this evening. What’s perhaps even stranger is that some of the old fixtures in the workplace are still very much fixtures although sometimes it seems like if I went back there I’d be the only one left of the “old guard”!

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It turns out that it’s not nearly so safe as I for one expected with over 12,000 golfing injuries each year that need hospital treatment not to mention millions of pounds of equipment stolen.

Having said that, golf insurance is really cheap with policies starting from around the £30 mark for a UK policy which even covers “Hole in One” insurance along with all the third party damage cover and such like that you’d expect any insurance policy to address.

Given the surprisingly high number of golfing injuries that require hospital treatment I think the £30 is something of a bargain.

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Anything to do with boating is never cheap but if you want a holiday experience that you’ll really remember then a cruise down a canal in your own boat is hard to beat.

A holiday on a canal boat (”barge” doesn’t really seem the correct term for the boats that you find these days) is at a totally different pace. Normal guidebooks are completely useless as they are aimed at drivers and cover a much greater chunk of the countryside than you’d be able to see at the pace of a canal boat. You’ll see all kinds of cute little villages that you’d have zoomed past without a second glance and as the canals tend to go through the older parts of towns you get to see some quite historic sections of towns that you’d never have seen before even if you were quite familiar with them.

You can do this in lots of countries but with the exchange rate being what it is why not try out Norfolk Broads Boat Hire?

This is the type of holiday that you really need to do at least once in your life.

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