Nathan's Insights
World Traveller: 7 Continents, 90 Countries, 871 Days Overseas
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Category: World Trip 1999-2000
A 118-day world trip visiting six countries – New Zealand, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, and Wales between 11 November 1999 and 6 March 2000.
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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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