Category Great Britain
Yorkshire to Scotland
Changing accents Today we “changed accents” again, from the lovely accent of the Yorkshire folk, to the almost unfathomable accent of the Scottish folk. Help, I’m going to need subtitles!!!!! But before Scotland, an update on our last day in Yorkshire. We drove to visit Fountains Abbey and Water Gardens. I had previously visited this […]
YORK MINSTER.
In AD 71 the Romans founded a fortress at Eboracum the ruins of which can be seen in the Undercroft of York Minster. 250 years later Constantine was declared Emperor in that same fort on top of which now stands this wonderful building. Why is this really relevant? Because 100 years later the Roman Emperor […]
A JOURNEY’S END.
Our sojourn at the Far Moorside Farm near Hebden Bridge is over. Hebden Bridge is a very pretty little village in a deep valley in the Yorkshire Moors, with narrow roads lined with iconic Yorkshire stone walls and historic houses. It suffered major flood damage a few years ago, and roads are still in the […]
CRAGGE VALE, MYTHOLMROYD, HEBDEN BRIDGE.
No we are not speaking Welsh, theses are the three towns near our farm on the Yorkshire moors. Last night we descended partway into the Calder Dale, down the longest continuous descent on British roads and had dinner in the Cragge Vale pub after which we took a short stroll of two tenths of a […]
FROM WALES TO THE DALES.
It was still raining when we woke this morning so our planed visit to Snowdonia was canceled, instead we headed off to Yorkshire by going back through the city of Chester and visit a pharmacy and other boring stuff. But what an unexpected delight. Chester has been a market town since Roman times and on Saturday […]
CAERNARFON.
We drove to Wales from Coventry yesterday, stopping on the way to have lunch and catch up with two orienteers we befriended while in Latvia. Our accommodation is in a comfy B and B, in small village called Tregarth, about 10 minute drive from Bangor, down winding narrow country lanes bordered with stone walls on […]
FROM KINGS & ABBOTTS TO PRIINCE’S OF WALES.
Thursday 18th July. It has been a strange couple of days, wrestling with disappointments, satnavs and nettles. Missing the Evensong service at Kings College last Tuesday was a great disappointment and we rose early the next day with only a few spare hours to get into the chapel. We therefore broke our fast succinctly (at […]
THREE HAIR RAISING MOMENTS.
Today we began the Battle of Britian. Trying to get our rental car out of Europe Cars Marble Arch garage and back to the hotel, was only the arm-up. Her magesty the toffee nosed lady on our car sat-nav was quite understanding and didn’t loose her temper with us more than once. We succeded in […]
TTHE MONOPOLY BOARD COMES TO LIFE
Paddington (where we are staying), Mayfair (rich people and their fancy expensive cars) Charing Cross, Regent’s Park, Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Charing Cross, Waterloo, Marleybone, Oxford Circuit, the list goes on and on. The Monopoly Board has come to life. For the first two days our accommodation was a squeezy shoe box sized room with […]
THE LONDON EYE
Two days in London. Too much to write about. Westminster HRH, QE11. Not Alice Pete, off to the pub.
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