Tag: UK

Tuesday Travels. . . . .The Falkirk Wheel

I had wanted to visit the Falkirk Wheel, the first rotating boat lift in the world, after hearing about it from my eldest sister who had visited it when she was last in Scotland. You can get a really detailed description of all that is on offer at the site of the wheel and a…

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Walking in the wolds. . . .Tuesday travels

While we were staying in Yorkshire we spent a great deal of our time walking in the countryside.  We were fortunate that there were so many wonderful spots to walk to and the fact that there were also several pubs scattered around the countryside made our walks even more enjoyable. Our first venture was just…

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Tuesday travels. . . Vindolanda and Hadrian’s Wall, U.K.

Our younger daughter and son had told us about their visit to Vindolanda and we were very keen to see if it was as great as they said it was. The first part we visited was the excavation site. It is here where you can participate in the ongoing excavation of the site.  The day we…

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Tuesday travels. . . Castle Howard

While staying in Yorkshire we took the opportunity to visit Castle Howard.This magnificent building has been home to the Howard family for over 300 years and is set in magnificent grounds.  You may recognise it from the 1981 television series, Brideshead Revisited. A more recent version of Brideshead Revisited was made as a film in…

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Tuesday travels. . . Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland

 Dunrobin Castle is in the county of Sutherland and we stopped there on the way to visiting my cousins in Caithness.  I had visited this castle as a child when we lived in Scotland. From this angle in the grounds it looks like a fairytale castle. When my husband and I first travelled to Scotland…

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