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Diana Jackson

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Virtual Tour of the Solent and Beyond

  • Virtual Tour of the Solent and Beyond ~No 15~ India ~ The last Post

    This is my last post in my virtual journey to the various locations in Ancasta Guide me Swiftly Home and it’s a place I never expected to go to when I planned the novel. Although I made an outline before I began to write, for me it’s always the research, as well as intuition and…

  • Virtual Tour of the Solent and Beyond ~No 14~WW1 in the Med and Port Said

    If this is the first of my virtual tour posts that you’ve stumbles upon, since Christmas I’ve been on a journey around the Solent from Fort Gilkicker, along Southampton Water, back out to Calshot, over to The Channel Islands and France and today we travel in our mind’s eye to Turkey and the Mediterranean. This…

  • Virtual Tour of the Solent and Beyond~No 13~Over the English Channel to France in the Great War

    Ancasta Guide me Swiftly Home is set between 1910 and 1920 and so the members of the Newton family see many facets of World War One; the life changing experiences of the women at home in Woolston as Harriet opens her home for convalescent soldiers; the marked effect on their children and Jane’s world at…

  • Virtual Tour Beyond the Solent no12 ~ Guernsey ~ The Isle of Flowers

    After pausing on Alderney I continue my journey to significant places features in the Riduna series and Guernsey features in both Riduna and in Ancasta Guide me Swiftly Home. In fact I knew of Guernsey long before Alderney and my first trip to Guernsey was at the age of seven.( I don’t count the visit when I…

  • Virtual Tour beyond the Solent no 11 ~ Alderney and Competition!!!

    As most people who know me realise, Alderney is my most favourite place in the world and it’s where my story began. The reason my virtual tour goes straight from Calshot to Alderney is because it is the closest Channel Island to the mainland, and the closest to France too! The easiest way to get…

  • Virtual Tour of the Solent ~ The Story so far and where to next?

    I began this virtual tour to show that a sense of place is important in my writing. I need to describe the areas in my novel enough to help the reader to feel that ‘sense of place,’ but I thought it might be helpful to give a little more background information and description. I have…

  • Virtual Tour of the Solent and Beyond no 10 ~ 100yrs of RNAS Calshot!

    My tour of the Solent area, which began just after Christmas, is timed perfectly to reach Calshot Spit at about the beginning of March because 100 years ago, in March 1913, RNAS Calshot was first opened as a naval air station to launch and service flying boats before and during the First World War. It…

  • The Solent Area ~ Virtual Tour no 9 ~ Over the water to Hythe

    Teturning to my virtual tour of the Solent and Beyond we take the Hotspur over the water from near Southampton Pier is a great way to travel to Hythe, passing any of the Cunard Queens which may be in dock. You journey takes you not far along Southampton Water, passing the mouth of the River…