Trip to York and the Battlefield of Towton. A long weekend but no lazy days for us. Time to pound the pavement with a visit to the wild…
For my birthday treat, I have dragged Sam to Nottingham Castle and Mortimer’s Hole. Well, it used to be a castle, its now a ducal mansion, although fragments…
Leeds Royal Armouries – They’ve got knives, knights, sharp sticks, boomsticks, falchions, flintlocks, helmets, habergeons, mail and men-at-arms. Or as the Royal Armouries at Leeds say themselves, examples…
Photos from the National Space Centre in Leicester. We’ve been twice now to the National Space Centre, once when it first opened and more recently in June 2013. …
Another trip into the deep dark hilly badlands of Derbyshire, this time to a hidden little gem called Lumsdale Valley. A wooded gorge of crumbled stone ruins from…
On this weeks extreme dog walk, a trip to my first home village of Clipstone or more precisely Clipstone Colliery, itself now part of Vicar Water Country Park.…
The North East Yorkshire coast, Whitby, Scarborough, Filey, Bridlington. Ah yes, that time of year, to get away from it all, leave the rat race behind, enjoy summer,…
Stanton Moor overlooks the Derwent and Wye valley, lying 300 metres above sea level, has been used for thousands of years. In the Bronze age four thousand years ago,…
A London city break, tea with the queen, expensive hotels, Big Ben, the tube, pearly kings and queens, jellied eels and cockney wankers. The cockney wanker in question…
A little trip to Stratford upon Avon and Warwick Castle. In true rip off Britain fashion, this pretty chocolate box place also knows how to charge (even the…
A holiday in Devon to Torbay taking in Torquay, Paignton, Babbacombe. Strange weather, had its own little micro climate going off, this is supposed to be the English…
Pictures form a short camping trip to Weymouth and Portland September 2009. Famous for its World Heritage Coastline known as the Jurassic coast with its fossil remains. Stopping…