Category Great Britain
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.
Parting Shots
After a morning spent doing nothing much, we finally decided to check out the neighbourhood. Which happens to be the home of the 2012 Olympic Games. Yes, the ones where Great Britain beat us in pretty much everything. Anyway, when it’s the last day of your holiday, and you have a tower thingy with a […]
Last Days in London
With just two days left, it was time to cram in everything we hadn’t done yet. Of course, this is impossible in London, but we gave it a good bash. We decided to divide and conquer in the morning by heading to two different museums, then meeting up in the afternoon This warranted a flow […]
Sunday in the Park in Bloomsbury
Our final City Race was held in the streets, parks and squares of elegant Bloomsbury, on a pleasant Sunday morning. We started from Birkbeck University at Torrington Square – coincidentally, exactly where Ian’s great grandfather and other family members lived for many years. He could have watched the whole event from his front doorstep. No […]
London Old and New
The City Race on Saturday was an Urban race rather than a sprint, ie longer legs in a less complex area. Starting in Bermondsey again, we were initially moaning about the 2 km walk to the Start. That is, until we actually did it. We followed the Thames Path along the south embankment, ducking through […]
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