Nathan's Insights
World Traveller: 7 Continents, 90 Countries, 871 Days Overseas
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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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