By Rachel I didn't expect to be wowed by castles in the Isle of Man. After all it's just a small island out in the Irish Sea - not a home of kings or anything. At least that's what I thought. But I was wrong. The Isle of Man is in a prime location for …
An Icelandic dip
By Rachel Tuesday was our last day in Iceland and we were able to finish off our time there with a true Icelandic experience. Reykjavik, like many (most? all?) towns in the country have public pools or baths heated by the geothermal activity for which the country is famous. However Reykjavik has 7 - yes …
Confessions of a railway geek, sort of…
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 …
The Land of midnight sun (it’s a real thing)
For the longest time before arriving in Iceland I had always found the idea of "the land of the midnight sun" to be a rather bizarre (and frankly quite absurd) idea. Not thinking I would ever experience it I remained quite unfazed last night when it never quite seemed to get dark...and I never quite …
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Water under the bridge; why I loved France.
By Neil It's been just over a month since we landed in France and traveled from Paris down into Brittany. The whole experience was too brief, but so memorable, that I felt compelled to write another post. Paris was marvelous, there is no other word I can think of to describe it. The architecture, the …
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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 …
A year of discovery 