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Stonehenge, Wiltshire, April 2019

When I started this blog in 2020 I sometimes thought that I hadn't really explored very much around the country that I live in, so I tried to change that. Then came the pandemic of 2020 that stopped all travel, but where local cycling exercise was permitted - and so I gave myself a project to visit every medieval church on the map of southeast Suffolk and saw this fantastic county exceedingly well. But I still hadn't seen very much of the rest of the country. 

Then in January 2021, at the height of Lockdown 3 with over 1000 people dying every day and with a strict do-not-travel order in place, the Royal Mail released a set of ten commemorative stamps showing ten National Parks across Britain: all places that were out-of-bounds at the time. I bought a set, and decided that once travel was permitted again, I would visit all of them and send a postcard from each one using the First Class stamp from the set. It took a few years to get through all of them, particularly the ones further away from East Anglia, but it was a fantastic series of day trips and short breaks. I suspect very few people in Britain will have coloured in as much of the National Rail network as I now have. 

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