Hm, maybe I should come up with an easier naming convention, this is starting to get unwieldy! Also – hooray! I have internet in the B&B in Kirkwall! Which is great because I have no mobile reception here. Started the day off well with a nice cooked breakfast at the B&B in Inverness. Bit of …
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Yeah, yeah, I know, I’ve fallen behind on the blogs again. Couldn’t get the wifi to work properly in my Chester hotel, and while I could tether the laptop to the phone, it wasn’t really a good speed for uploading the photos I generally add to the entries. Plus I had some logistical stuff to …
Going to be a bit of a short one today as it was a bit of a personal day. One side of my family is from the Chester area, so naturally I have some ancestors buried here. Today’s main objective was to visit some of the churchyards in the area and see if I could …
Day trip time today! Weather was a bit better than yesterday, but I was hoping it would be ever clearer in Wales. Taking the train out to a walled town called Conwy today to explore it’s 14th century walls and castle. It’s only about an hour outside of Chester, along the North Coast of Wales, …
This one’s probably going to be another picture-heavy entry, as I took plenty of photos during my explorations today, and it’s less work for me to just post them rather than explain them all! Had a bit of a later start today, as the Chester Cathedral tower tour I was booked on didn’t start til …
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Not much to write today as it was a travelling day. Checked out of the hotel and made my way up to Paddington Station to catch the tube to Euston. Luckily for me it’s a Sunday, as trying to do that trip at that time of morning on a weekday with luggage would not have been …
This was going to be my last full day in London, and also it turns out it’s the tenth anniversary of the first time I arrived in London, way back in the unfathomably distant year of 2009. There’s been a lot happen since then, but I’m glad I’m lucky enough to still be travelling! I …
Went for a day trip today, which was a nice change. Bletchley Park is the home of the codebreakers of WWII – the men and women who were responsible for cracking the codes of the Enigma machines, allowing them to read the German communications. It’s been said that the work they accomplished saved countless lives …
Ended up being a bit of a quieter day today, as I think I overdid things yesterday with too many museum visits! After a bit of a late start I headed in to Trafalgar Square to the National Gallery. I’m not usually one for much in the way of art, but it’s an impressive collection …
So much for keeping up to date with the travel blogs! Although you can probably guess from the name of this entry just why I crashed as soon as I got back to the hotel. I dare say I was a bit optimistic in my plans for today (well, yesterday technically) but it worked out …
In a rare occurrence, Emirates had actually changed my seat on me – ended up right over the week in front of a bulkhead. Not the best seat, if I’m honest, as I didn’t have much space to recline and being right over the huge wing of the A-380 I didn’t have much of a …
And here we go! Although today was mostly a day of hanging around and waiting, as my flight didn’t leave until 9pm. I did make it to the airport with plenty of time to spare though, so there was more waiting. Luckily the airport wasn’t too busy – a benefit of a late flight I …