Polyanna, pigs, buggies and the Amish.

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Day 18: Tuesday, October 17th 2017. Our hosts Rebecca and Jim had both left early for work and we found ourselves alone in the house with only Maisie for company, who wandered up to us and thankfully now seemed fully accepting of these new strangers. We could all learn from Maisie. Nosying around other people’s

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Let’s Rock ‘n’ Roll!

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Day 19: Wednesday, October 18th 2017. It’s one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, now go cat go, as today we lurch from one ideology to another in double-quick time. You’d be hard pressed to find a more marked contrast between the buttoned-up, shrouded world of the Amish and the

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Niagara Falls and Canada.

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Day 20: Thursday, October 19th 2017. Toast and peanut butter for breakfast, make sure Marie is safely locked in, then off to Niagara Falls. It may have been our setting on the satnav again but it was curiously difficult to find. We seemed to drive along suburban roads for miles with no sense that one

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Vermont in the fall. The End.

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Day 21: Friday, October 20th 2017. We returned from our American odyssey a full year ago so it seems a fitting time to now sit by the log burner, take myself back to last October and finish this final post as the mellow light of autumn returns to this old England. ……………………………………………………………………….. We leave Buffalo,

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