I’d been looking for some places to visit that are easily accessible by train and I was surprised to find a pretty cheap ticket to Ely for less than £10 so decided that it was time to tick off Ely Cathedral from my to do list.
Ely Cathedral
Categories: Cambridgeshire, Ely, England
Tags: architecture, cathedral, ely cathedral, history, photo post
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Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, London
In 2022 it will be 100 years since Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered and this tour of treasures from the tomb which is visiting cities around the world is to celebrate both that and the construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum where all of these items will return, many of which have never been outside of Egypt before.
Categories: England, London
Tags: Egyptian, Egyptian artefacts, Egyptian history, exhibition, photo post, Saatchi Gallery, Tutankhamun
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The Heights of Abraham
The Heights of Abraham in Matlock Bath has been on my to do list for a long time and I finally decided to go while we were having some sunny weather. As I travelled by train I was able to use my train ticket to get a 20% discount on the entrance price and the cable car station (yes, you can travel by cable car up to the Heights) is only a short walk away from Matlock Bath Railway Station.
Categories: Derbyshire, England, Matlock Bath
Tags: architecture, cable car, caves, history, mining, photo post, tower
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2019 Stats
In 2019 I published 49 posts and had over 2,000 visitors, which is around 500 more than the year before. Pretty impressive since I only really started this for a small group of family and friends to read while I was on a working holiday in Canada back in 2010.
My posting hasn’t been as regular as the year before though and I am horribly behind (I’m starting to publish trips I went on in the summer and have lots more to go) but I’m hoping to get back into the swing of things for 2020. I haven’t talked about this anywhere on social media but around this time last year my Dad was diagnosed with cancer. Thanks to the wonderful work of the staff at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham he’s now cancer free and doing exceptionally well but the first half of the year was pretty stressful and travel was the last thing on my mind and then as he got the all clear getting away for a bit on my own was a nice stress reliever, but as always left me with lots of photos to organise and places of interest to research.
I’m tentatively thinking of doing a bit less travelling this year in order to save for a big trip in 2021, though I do already have a few overnight stays planned and with my current backlog you probably won’t notice!
So, what are your 2020 travel plans? More travel, less travel? Any special place you want to visit?
Categories: Yearly Round-Up
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Lincoln Castle
Lincoln Castle is directly opposite Lincoln Cathedral and I visited both with a joint ticket of £18. Built in 1068 by William the Conqueror the castle is also the site of a Victorian prison, one of only four original copies of the Magna Carta and Lincoln’s Crown Court, which is still in use today.
Categories: England, Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Tags: architecture, castle, cathedral, history, Magna Carta, medieval, photo post, prison
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Throwback Thursday: 120 Oxford Street, London
Currently a Next store this used to be the Bourne and Hollingsworth Department Store which moved to Oxford Street in 1902 though it was built in 1894. The art deco remodelling happened in 1928. It closed in 1985 during which time the building was also known as the The Plaza Oxford Street.
Lincoln Cathedral
Lincoln is only an hour or so away from Nottingham so I decided to take a trip there recently and bought a joint ticket to both the Cathedral and Lincoln Castle which was well worth the price of £18. An easy-ish walk from the railway station (there is a steep hill involved though buses are also available) some of the Cathedral was under scaffolding when I visited but that didn’t detract from the impressiveness of the building.
Categories: England, Lincoln
Tags: architecture, cathedral, christopher wren, guided tour, history, medieval, photo post, roof tour, stained glass
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Soho Square, London
Soho Square was built in the 1670s when it was called King Square after Charles II, and a statue of him can still be found there. It’s possibly the earliest square in London to be built around a purposely laid out enclosed garden. It used to be a very fashionable residential area.
House of St Barnabas, London
The House of St Barnabas, previously the House of Charity, is a Grade I listed Georgian building off of Soho Square in London. It was built around 1744; it was a residential house until 1811 and was used by the Metropolitan Board of Works and then the office of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, famous for creating London’s sewer system.
St Patrick’s Catholic Church, Soho Square
On a recent trip to London I had some hours to kill and decided to take a look at St Patrick’s Catholic Church, Soho Square.
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, catholic, church, photo post, stained glass window
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