Prague – The World’s Largest Ancient Castle and Charles Bridge
When Rob’s brother and his wife travelled around Europe a few years ago, they said their favourite city was Prague. So when our friend Ali invited us to a weekend…
Pembrokeshire – More Amazing Welsh Castles
This was our second visit to Wales – last time we saw a bunch of castles in North Wales, so we thought we should see some in the south too. The…
Northumberland – Visiting Alnwick Castle
After our busy walking day at Hadrian’s Wall, we drove away through the farmlands of Northumberland all lined with their pilfered Hadrian’s Wall stone. We wound our way up to…
Scotland – Tulloch Castle, where Davidsons Run Free
On our Scottish adventure we decided to see a bit of Davidson family history. So we headed north er, just past Inverness, to a town called Dingwall. Here, situated at…
Scotland – Visiting the Highlands and more
Recently, Rob and I took a week long roadtrip up to the Scottish Highlands and back again. I wanted to get out the city for a bit and get some…
Wales – Conwy Castle, Walls and a Merchant House
On our last full day in Wales, we had to go see Conwy castle. Conwy is all about the castle – Lonely Planet said so and it was right. The…
Wales – Castles, castles and more castles
During our trip in north Wales, it’s hard not to see castles. They are everywhere and it was the main reason we were in Wales! In the 13th century, King…
Wales – Driving Across the Country
For easter weekend, we decided to go for a roadtrip to North Wales. We had been told to expect castles, mountains and rain. We didn’t climb any mountains but weren’t…
Windsor – A Living Castle
While Barry and Helen were visiting, we wanted to do some touring around to see the sights. One of these sights was to visit Windsor Castle – the oldest and…
North Norfolk – Visiting a Beautiful Coast
We still haven’t managed to leave Britain yet for any of our trips. Darn it! But still, there are many beautiful things still to see in the UK. We decided…
Leeds Castle… Roadtrip continued…
From Dover we headed towards Leeds Castle ( and home ). It started off rather snowy. However when we got to the castle it was a beautiful day. Even though…
Dover…Roadtrip continued…
After we visited Canterbury we drove over to Dover where the plan was, we would stay a couple of nights and see the sights. The first night we saw the…
Edinburgh – A Big Castle and Tasty Haggis
So, after too short a time in York, we were on another train to Edinburgh! Our train trip from York to Edinburgh was stunning. The trainline followed up the east…
Nottingham – A Castle and Some Caves
Nottingham has great shops and restaurants, lively nightlife and a couple of nice attractions, but we weren’t totally impressed, which was sad. Most of the city’s original and old buildings…