By Neil Okay, I must confess two things here; firstly I am incredibly behind on my blog posts and I'm secretly a railway geek. In the first case, my excuse is that we have been traveling a lot in the past three weeks, meeting old friends and exploring a lot. There is no excuse in …
Reliving Lancaster
By Neil For those who don't know it, I can best describe Lancaster as a small University City in the North West of England, not far from the much heralded Lake District. It is an old city, with archeological evidence of human habitation dating back to the Iron Age and earlier. It was a port …
Reflecting on the first city I called home
As I sit at the counter of my wonderful Manx relatives, trying not to fall from my seat laughing at a Robin Williams skit, and fumbling at the idea of writing a blog on a computer, with a genuinely functional internet connection; I find myself musing at the experiences of travel thus far. It's been …
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Lancaster Castle
So, Lancaster Castle, a formidable structure defying the advancement of time. Must have a magnificent history. Well, actually, not really. It all started when we went to Lancaster Castle for a tour of the castle. It was quite interesting. For one thing, if you count the roman fort that stood there before the castle, it …
A little jaunt to the Lake District
By Rachel There is just something about the Lake District for me. Maybe it's the dry stone walls snaking up - and sometimes over - the fells. Or the treeless fellsides alternating between short grass and tiny wildflowers and scree and rock. Perhaps it's the little stone cottages snuggled into a little crook of a …
York
By Pippa We arrived in York on the 23rd of June to hugs from my brother Tristan. Having not seen him in nine months I was pretty excited. We dropped of our luggage at our apartment/house and went out for a drink. On our way back, while we were walking across the bridge a large group …
On public libraries…
By Rachel I was traveling on the train from York to Lancaster today. The conversation I had with the man across from me triggered this post, I think because it got me a little worked up, brought out my passion a bit. So now I'm going to share some of that with you Our conversation …
A year of discovery 