Three weeks of late nights or early mornings, not quite sure which.

I love this time of year as it is Tour de France time.  It is almost here.  I have blogged in previous years about the Tour. Last week I purchased the official guide so have read up on all the necessary information. Teams are gradually finalising the members for the actual race and I am…

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…

Tuesday travels. . . Whitby, Dracula and Captain Cook

While staying in Yorkshire we took the opportunity to visit Whitby, a coastal town that has a link to Australia.Captain James Cook served his apprenticeship in Whitby and when he set off on his voyage of discovery to Australia he set sail on the Endeavour, a Whitby built collier.  There is a Captain Cook Memorial…

Tuesday travels. . . National Railway Museum York

We had visited York on our first trip to the UK in 2003 but we didn’t visit the National Railway Museum so we were insistent that we visit on our trip in 2012.  We were lucky because my brother and sister-in-law were staying in a house swap in Yorkshire and we spent several days with…

Tuesday travels. . . .Wetherby and Ripon

Wetherby was our second port of call on our trip heading north to Scotland. We stayed the night at a lovely pub called The Royal Oak. We hadn’t booked accommodation so it was purely by chance that we stayed here. There was rugby on television that night and the bar ended up being quite crowded…