Category: Travel
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Saturday 12 February 2000 Highlights: St Andrews Cathedral, St Andrews Golf Course We decided on a day trip to St Andrews. This meant a train trip to Leuchars and than a bus to St Andrews, total travelling time around 1.5 hours. A real highlight was St Andrews Cathedral built in 1160 it was basically destroyed…
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Friday 11 February 2000 Highlights: Edinburgh Castle, Scottish Crown Jewels, Underground vaults We got into Edinburgh just before 12 noon and managed to find a reasonable hostel that wasn’t on our map. Today we visited Edinburgh Castle, one time residence of the Scottish Kings and almost always a Royal Stronghold. The Castle is situated on…
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Thursday 10 February 2000 Highlights: City Chambers, Stirling’s Library, Glasgow Cathedral, St Mungo’s Museum of Religious Life and Art, People’s Palace Had a very interrupted night’s sleep as one of our room mates was sick and coughing all night. The dorm beds were also very hard. Anyway we started the day with a visit to…
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Wednesday 9 February 2000 Highlights: Carlisle Castle After an excellent night’s sleep in the B&B we headed for Carlisle Castle. The Castle is till in use by the local government and the inner section was still used by the army until the 1970s. Carlisle Castle dates from 1093 and is perhaps most famous for holding…
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Tuesday 8 February 2000 Highlights: Carlisle Cathedral, Tullie House Museum Today was supposed to be a leisurely travel day were we could sleep in and catch the 10 am train. We take didn’t happen as the train was delayed and we then missed our connection which resulted in us getting into Carlisle after 2 pm…
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Monday 7 February 2000 Highlights: Durham Cathedral, Durham Castle We travelled to Durham today were we stayed out our first Bed and Breakfast of the trip, an English tradition I could get used to 🙂 Durham is home to the Durham Cathedral built as a shrine to St Cuthbert and dates from the 12th century.…
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Sunday 6 February 2000 Highlights: York Cathedral Foundations and Treasury We headed back to the Cathedral today, this time to visit the Foundations and the Treasury. The Foundations were excavated in 1967 when the Tower looked like it would collapse. While strengthening the tower they uncovered Roman and Norman ruins. The Roman section included a…
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Saturday 5 February 2000 Highlights: York Cathedral This time our hostel was an even greater distance from the walled city of York. Definitely something to look into for future trips, better accommodation location selections.
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Friday 4 February 2000 Highlights: Lincoln Castle, Lincoln Cathedral, Magna Carta, Lincoln Ghost Tour The hostel we are staying at is a little bit further away from the attractions of Lincoln than we would like but the manager is great and so was the breakfast. The Lincoln Cathedral is the real highlight of the town.…
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Thursday 3 February 2000 Highlights: The Round Church, Cambridge University We undertook a total of three walking tours as per our Lonely Planet guidebook for a total of 7 hours, taking in picturesque town and historic buildings. We completed our visits of Cambridge University Colleges with Christ’s, Jesus and Magdalene Colleges. Like yesterday’s Colleges they…
