Category: Travel
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Friday 3 March 2000 Highlights: Harrods, Hyde Park We again stayed in Notting Hill but in a different hotel with a higher price and worst quality but hey the trip is almost over and I’ve seen more than enough hostels. As today was somewhat of a rest day I tried to complete my shopping list.…
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Thursday 2 March 2000 Highlights: Christ Church Cathedral & College, Windsor Castle In many ways this is the last day of the trip as tomorrow is a rest day in London with only shopping planned before flying out in two days. Most of the famous Colleges in Oxford are closed to the public. We were…
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Wednesday 1 March 2000 Highlights: Everything Shakespeare! Today we visited the William Shakespeare Properties. The most interesting was Shakespeare’s Birthplace. The cottage that he grow up in has been returned to how it looked in his day. A museum detailing his life and events in is era bring visitors up to date. At one stage the house was converted…
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Tuesday 29 February 2000 Highlights: Royal Shakespeare Company’s performance of Macbeth We set out to explore Chester in a good mood but it was quickly dispelled when we couldn’t find anywhere to put our backpacks which resulted in us taking them with us everywhere which was far from ideal. As a result we just ended…
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Monday 28 February 2000 Highlights: Bath Abbey, Roman Baths, Walking tours of Bath Starting early we headed off to Bath to spend the day before arriving late in the day at Chester which we will explore tomorrow. Bath was originally a Roman outpost from 1 AD to 4th century. The Romans established the very first…
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Sunday 27 February 2000 Highlights: Cardiff Castle, not throwing up (from overnight ferry). Quite amazingly we got to Cardiff at about 6 am from Rosslare and caught a bus straight To Cardiff even though my stomach still hasn’t quite settled. At check in they forgot to get us to pay saving us a night’s accommodation!
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Saturday 26 February 2000 Highlights: St Mary’s Cathedral, King John’s Castle Today we explored Limerick City starting with St Mary’s Cathedral was built in 1172. Next was the excellent the King John’s Castle. King John is often portrayed in fiction in Robin Hood stories. In reality he was forced to sign the Magna Carta. The…
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Friday 25 February 2000 Highlights: Bunratty Castle Although technically today was a day based in Limerick we actually caught a bus out to Bunratty village to visit Bunratty Castle. Originally we tried to hire a car to visit Lough Gur stone circle but all the rental places had a 3 day minimum hire requirement so…
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Thursday 24 February 2000 Highlights: Watching a Waterford Crystal Vase being made. On our way to Limerick we stopped off at Waterford and spent the day exploring. Like most ancient cities Waterford at one time was walled but little remains of this wall. Reginald’s Tower still exists but they were unfortunately working on it so…
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Wednesday 23 February 2000 Highlights: St Canice (Kilkenny) Cathedral, Smithwick Brewery, Kilkenny Castle Today was spent in one our our small changes to the plan – Kilkenny City. We caught the 9 am bus from Dublin and arrived at Kilkenny 11.30 am. First up was a visit to St Canice Cathedral, also known as Kilkenny…
