Day 28 Nottingham, UK

Nottingham will not be on my list of places in the world you must visit, but we have made the most of the day but there will be few photos! We drove here in two hours and it was a reasonably busy road, but an easy drive into the city, where our hotel is very close to the centre. It’s an old fashioned hotel but described on Google as ‘ one of the most prestigious boutique hotels in Nottingham’. We walked around town for an hour or so before finding lunch at a very average restaurant. We decided to then visit the National Justice Museum in the Lace Market area of Nottingham, England. The museum is housed in a former Victorian courtroom, prison, and police station and is therefore a historic site where an individual could be arrested, tried, sentenced and executed. Our visit began with a theatrical performance in the courtroom with some audience participation, including David as Constable Dodd. Quite funny and a good start to exploring the museum which was interesting. I did however have my second panic attack of the day as we went down into the dungeons and pits where prisoners had been incarcerated and I could not see an exit sign (my first had been when the hotel lift did not open immediately). Anyway I survived both. We wandered back but were too late to visit Nottingham castle. After a short rest we headed out to find the Thai Street Food restaurant we had found online and we were not disappointed as the food and atmosphere at Zaab was excellent. We wandered back and had a relaxing drink at a very quiet bar across the road and that too was enjoyable but we are really surprised at how quiet the city is with few people around. Nottingham is not what we expected even though it is the 9th biggest city in the UK. It generally seems very run down and the people look pretty miserable. It is the first city we have noticed to have a lot of homeless people. We are pleased to have only one night here even though the day ended nicely.Read more