Dave Adcock

First 5k for 3 months today. My first as a 71 year old. Southampton Common soaked but spring is coming

Thanks Jon. Here’s to the next 60!

Confessions of a QPR addict Me. Myself. I It must have been about 4.45pm on 6 February 2016. The match seemed to be petering out into a 0-0 draw. It was the 88th minute. Abdenasser El Khayati (Remember him?) got in a cross fr…

60 years ago this week QPR scored 3 against Hull City. My first match. Today we did it again.

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Tomorrow it’s 60 years since I first saw @QPR play. A 3-3 draw against Hull City.
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Rangers till I die! #QPR

Just enjoyed a few days in Gran Canaria. Winter sun!

Help I fell in a fish tank! But where? Answers tomorrow

It’s 50 years since Southampton Tourist Guides Association began
Here’s what I was doing half a century ago.

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London beautiful today in winter sunshine As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset, I am in paradise

Happy Christmas from Southampton

Here’s our annual review of the year blog.

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Happy reading!

Mist clearing over the Itchen in Southampton this morning

Just spent a couple of days in Alicante to celebrate 71 years! Gulp!

A privilege to MC the annual Far East Prisoners of War repatriation event at Town Quay Southampton today. On 18 November 80 years ago some of those POW’s returned

Jesse Hughes (Eagles of Death Metal) chante "You’ll never walk alone" pour les 10 ans du 13-Novembre YouTube video by france tv

Very moving rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone from survivors and relatives of the Bataclan terrorist attack

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First run for a few weeks. Decent start but knackered by the end.

Yes our tour guide told us that about Frontenac.

Thanks for the tip. Yes it was great thanks. I love seeing how French culture works in other contexts.

Québec City The iconic Fairmont Le Château Frontenac We took the train from Montreal to Québec City. On arrival at the station, Google told me it was just a twenty minute walk to our hotel. It failed to divulg…

So French I put the accent on Québec #quebec #québec
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Slow Train to Montreal On time, but in no hurry. You can of course fly from New York to Montreal. They tell me you can drive it in seven hours, but we took the train. Thirteen hours later we arrived. First though we had …

The slow but pretty route to Montreal
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New York! New York! On the streets of Manhattan According to many surveys New York is the city most mentioned in song lyrics worldwide. Through movies and music we’ve all heard of many parts of the so called Big Apple…

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Which city features in more songs than any other? New York, New York of course

Atlantic Crossing September 2025 My first sea crossing was a Newhaven to Dieppe ferry 50 years ago! This was a class or two above! We’ve lived in Southampton over fifty years, but have never done a cruise. After all they’re for ol…

Confessions of a virgin cruiser.
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Far East Prisoner of War Repatriation Memorial Ceremony - Southampton Autumn 1945 saw over 20,000 PoWs & Internees arrive from the Far East at Southampton. Join us to remember them & those who did not survive.

I have the honour of mc’ing this act of remembrance on 18 November

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Find out where those saints went marching in! Meet tomorrow 18 September 2.30pm at Southampton Bargate.

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Isaac and Jane went to these places where the saints went marching in wegottickets.com/event/669350/ This Thursday meet at the Bargate Southampton 2.30pm to find out more.

Today I was at Southampton’s French church for Heritage Week. On Thursday I’m leading this walk wegottickets.com/event/669350/ revealing where saints went marching in.

Lots of special heritage events in Southampton this month. I’m leading this one. You can book here wegottickets.com/event/669350

A Tour to Tours Tours Town hall The French language can be confusing. For example ‘la tour’ is the tower, but ‘La Tour’ would be the Eiffel Tower. Similarly ‘le tour’ is the tour but ‘Le Tour’ is the Tour de Franc…

My final blog of this adventure as I arrived in Tours as a tourist.
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Chi-non or Ch-Oui? Chinon old town This morning my thoughts turned to my next destination Chinon. The distance was 16km which was fine. The weather forecast however was poor with heavy rain predicted. I next looked a…

Next stop Chinon as Joan replaces Eleanor
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Fontevraud. It’s All Right Lady Eleanor! Eleanor reading her book as she slumbers. Hubby who imprisoned her is next to her. She got her revenge. He didn’t want to be buried here. I blame Eleanor for this walk! She must be one of the most …

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Now that’s what I call a market