Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Churchill and the War Years – 27 February 2010

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The winter in London has now officially been declared the coldest and wettest in 31 years. One good aspect of this is that we have been enco...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Riots and Radicals Ramble – 28 November 2009

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Today's title is from a London Timeout magazine's walking route, which seemed the ideal way to start the day. Although the magazine ...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Coldstream, Chillingham and Cragside - 19 August 2008

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Popping briefly back across the border we visited Coldstream, birthplace of the Coldstream Guards. Also on the Scottish side of the Tweed an...

Biscuit tins to Chippendale - 17 August 2008

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Leaving Edinburgh we set off to explore the area between there and Berwick-upon-Tweed - the most fought over settlement in European history....

Edinburgh Tattoo - 16 August 2008

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Having watched the Edinburgh Tattoo from the other side of the globe we felt that we could not be in the UK without seeing it live at least ...
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Sunday, September 24, 2006

One last castle before home - 10 September 2006

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The fabulous sunshine continued for our final day in Scotland. We spent the night in a beautiful Victorian townhouse in Dumfries and before ...

Abbeys - oh, and a castle - 9 September 2006

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The perfect weather forecast for the weekend made today's trip down the coast road from Kilmarnock to Dumfries a real treat. Along the s...

Just for a change, we visit a castle - 8 September 2006

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Our holiday was literally ending on a high. A big high was situated over the whole of the UK, and the forecast was for perfect weather for t...