The Choice Blog is a place where we will post interesting places, events, ideas and things that we've noticed whilst putting the magazine together. They may be things that will develop into stories or justa great cafe that we called in at on a trip that we though we'd share with you. Please share and comment on social media please.
Sunday, October 19th 2025
It’s been a few years since my wife and I ventured over the English Channel and visited the beautiful rolling agricultural countryside where the Dordogne merges into the Lot et Garrone. I had forgotten just how easy it is to drive in France where the traffic is light in relation to the amount of space available and where the motorways and main roads seem in good repair with few hold ups.
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Thursday, June 26th 2025
Clive Nicholls, choicemag.co.uk photographer and publisher, is better known for his superb travel pictures in Choice Magazine and now this website. But he captured this dramatic shot near St Pancras Station this week. The van burst into flames and was completely destroyed despite the attentions of the fire service. Some bus routes were diverted while two fire engines and ten firefighters from Kentish Town fire station dealt with the incident. The cause of the fire is not known
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Wednesday, December 11th 2024
War can highlight the bravery of otherwise ordinary men and women but can also starkly illustrate the role of luck that can mean the difference between survival and tragedy. For Bombardier Charles Armson it was both. Aged 18 Charles Armson volunteered and was quickly on the way to France with the Royal Horse Artillery. He soon progressed to the rank of Bombardier (equivalent to corporal) and for bravery in the field was awarded the Military Medal. The MM is a high award for bravery ranking below only the Victoria Cross and the Distinguished Conduct Medal.
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Thursday, November 28th 2024
Wartime service didn’t end after VE and VJ days in 1945, many served long after that in mopping up operations, peacekeeping and preparing for defending the nation in the much changed and dangerous post Second World War world. Women played a significant role during the conflict and afterwards. They also sacrificed their lives usually not in battle but almost more poignantly with illness (TB was still a killer) and by ill luck. But the sacrifice and tragedy was the same.
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