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  • Karen Long
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  • Karen LongViaggiatoreKings, Queens, Pubs n Castles
    Old Man of Storr
    Fort AugustusInvernessStart of Loch Ness

    Back to the mainland

    23 settembre 2017, Scozia ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    The sun is out this morning, so we went for a quick trip back out to see The Old Man of Storr when he's not incased in cloud. Quite a few hikers had the same idea and were there all set to hike up to the top. I was happy with a few photos.

    Off on another road trip around Loch Ness. We stopped in Port Augusta which is at the bottom of the Loch and then followed a little road all the way along the Lock to Inverness.
    Loch Ness is very picturesque, no wonder Nessie has called it home for so many years. We kept our eye out for her but it was such a nice day she was probably off sunning herself somewhere! They are closing this road tomorrow to run the Loch Ness Marathon so there are signs all over for the runners. Pretty hard course for them lots of hills and turns. At one stop someone asked me which distant I was running? Ha ha nice to know I still look like I could do it!

    Just coming out of Fort Augusta a young girl was stuck on the side of the road with a flat tyre and we stopped and another couple as well. Would have changed the tyre for her but there was no spare, I couldn't believe it, how can you hire someone a car with no spare tyre. Anyway Graham flagged down a car going into Port Augusta luckily it was a couple of young girls too and asked them to drop her off at the garage. Hope she managed to get it sorted poor kid, bit scary when you're all by yourself!

    We got into Inverness about 3 and looking for a hotel or B and B, everything is booked out. Bloody marathon people, apparently this is the busiest weekend of the year. We decided we may as well drive on a bit further and thanks to the one way system drove down a smaller street. And like providence a Vacancy sign on one of the b and b's nice little place close to the city, perfect.    Leggi altro

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  • Karen LongViaggiatoreKings, Queens, Pubs n Castles

    Inverness

    24 settembre 2017, Scozia ⋅ 🌧 14 °C

    Had a nice relaxing Sunday in Inverness, walked around town, had a look at the castle, the older part of town, the churches and the cathedral.

    Had a lovely lunch and then watched some of the runners come in, a few of them looked like they were doing it pretty tough. Big achievement to finish a marathon though so all credit to them.

    Back to Blair's for a rest and then off for a drink at the oldest pub in Inverness, turned out they have a Sunday music session which was just starting as we turned up. Pretty good too, we enjoyed it even though we could only understand half of what he was singing. Enjoyed chatting to a few locals as well, everyone is very friendly.    Leggi altro

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  • Karen LongViaggiatoreKings, Queens, Pubs n Castles
    Edinburgh Castle
    Mary King's CloseVoldemort's Tombstone

    Edinburgh

    26 settembre 2017, Scozia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    Getting from Inverness to Edinburgh proved harder than we thought. Held up at roadworks for over an hour, There must have been three miles of cars on each side. Great fun when you're starving and dying for the loo.

    Edinburgh is a beautiful city, gorgeous old building, pretty streets, cool shops and so many little alley ways or closes as they call them. Visited the Castle and the Cathedral, walked up and down the Royal Mile.

    Took a ride on the Hop On Hop Off Bus, we needed a break from all the stairs and hills.
    Toured Mary King's Close, which is an old street buried under the newer court buildings on the Royal Mile. Interesting and fun tour with a hilarious guide.    Leggi altro

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  • Karen LongViaggiatoreKings, Queens, Pubs n Castles
    View From The Struggle
    Castlerigg Stone CircleStone Bridge at Aria Force

    Lakes District

    28 settembre 2017, Inghilterra ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    We are at Brougham Hall Farm for three nights. Arrived yesterday late in the afternoon after travelling down from Edinburgh. We'd stopped in Gretna Green, which has a honourable mention in every Georgette Heyer book I've ever read and I have to say it was a great disappointment. Just shops and restaurants and one little museum at the blacksmiths. Stopped again in Penrith for lunch and stocked up with wine, ham, cheese and beer so we wouldn't have to venture out again for nourishment.

    Sarah's place here is lovely, Huge bedroom and our own dining and living room and voted the biggest bathroom with the best shower all trip! It's a working farm with pigs, sheep, horses, turkeys, geese, guinea fowl and chooks galore!

    Another guitar workshop tour this morning, which couldn't have been more polar to the other one. Then when we are off for a day touring The Lakes!

    Had a lovely day for it, a rarity I'm sure so we did see it at its best. Gorgeous lakes with beautiful mountains and waterfalls! Sarah advised us to stay away from the bigger lakes so we toured some of the smaller ones, Ellswater, Grasmere , Rydalwater, and Thirlmere. Saw the top of Windermere at Ambleside at lunchtime after we'd come down The Struggle a little narrow very steep connecting road.

    Stopped in at Aria Force on the way and Keswick town for a bit of a look and then Castlerigg Stone Circle. These two seemed have escaped the popularity of a lot of the other attractions. England seems to be able to make a tourist event out of nearly anything but occasionally you find a little forgotten gem.

    Home again then for a rest before dinner out at Dockray Hall.    Leggi altro

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  • Karen LongViaggiatoreKings, Queens, Pubs n Castles

    Hadrian's Wall

    29 settembre 2017, Inghilterra ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    After some more expert tips from Sarah we are off to see Hadrian's Wall. Rements of the wall the Roman built across the width of England. Those Romans were everywhere and since they really knew how to make something that lasts there are lots of remains everywhere.

    Stopped in at Lanercost Priory on the way. Nice church attached to it, quite a few of the church ladies were in there decorating for Harvest Week. And plenty of restoration work under way at the priory.

    On then to the first Roman Fort. They built forts all along the wall. Lots of different sites with remnants of the wall, quarries where they mined the rock but The Highlight of the day though was Housestead. It was a huge Roman fort and command centre. Barracks and a hospital, kitchens and bathrooms. Sits in a rather commanding position on top of a hill. Gorgeous views from all sides.

    After a few hours we were walled out and headed off to find some lunch. Cross country trip over the Pennines Sarah had marked on the map for us. Holy Moly talk about windy and high. Lots of motorbikes and cyclists up there. I was glad they were all coming up while I was going down. It was a great drive though. We stopped at the bottom for a coffee and a group of cyclists were fortifying themselves before they headed up! Crazy people.    Leggi altro

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  • Karen LongViaggiatoreKings, Queens, Pubs n Castles
    James Herriot Country
    Sycronised HorsesHow green is my valleyHowarthWaiting for the Steamtrain

    Yorkshire Dales

    30 settembre 2017, Inghilterra ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

    Leaving Penrith to travel over to West Yorkshire. Sarah has planned out a route to take us over the smaller roads of The Yorkshire dales.

    We took our time and stopped for lots of photos breaks. Another beautiful vista around every corner. Stopped for coffee at the cheese factory at Hawes where they tried to convince Graham the way to eat fruitcake was with a huge slice of cheese on top. He's usually up for any weird combination and he gave it a go but it was too much for him.

    The Yorkshire dales are lovely, beautiful rolling hills with rivers, streams and waterfalls everywhere, hundred of miles of rock walls and stone barns. Gorgeous cows, horses and sheep. It's a pleasure just to look at it.

    Found our next B and B in Oakworth. Talk about from the sublime to the ridiculous. This one is as tiny as Sarah's was huge. Abby our new hostess is lovely and it seems to have everything we need so I'm sure it will be fine once we stop bumping into each other.

    There's a steam train that stops almost at the end of the driveway so we went down to check it out. Took a ride up to Keighley and then back to Howarth. Bronte sisters town of fame, very picturesque Main Street but omg the walk up from the station nearly killed me. Talk about steep.

    Taxi ride back to Oakworth and one of the pubs for dinner.    Leggi altro

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  • Karen LongViaggiatoreKings, Queens, Pubs n Castles
    Bingley Locks
    Saltaire3The Cow and CalfRombold MoorGetting blown off the mountain1Sunday Lunch deliciousness

    Out and about in West Yorkshire

    1 ottobre 2017, Inghilterra ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    It's Sunday today and I'm determined to have a last Sunday lunch in England. It's a bit of a gloomy day to start with, but had started to brighten up by the time we got ourselves ready to go.

    First stop was the Bingley Five Locks a series of locks on one of the canals. We've seen these before but they never fail to entertain. Funniest thing was one of the boats going down was someone we'd meet in Wales. They'd been on their boat for six months. That would be really testing the friendship!

    Then on to Saltaire Village. One of the most perfectly preserved Victorian villages. All built by one family for their Salt Mill. Factory, mill, church, school, hall, hospital and enough houses for 3000 people.

    I thought we could drive over the Yorkshire moors from here, but it turns out they are about two hours away and we couldn't be naffed driving that far. Luckily there is Ilkley Moor and Rombald's Moor both of which are only a few miles away. On the way though we passed through Burley in Wharfedale and saw the Red Lion Pub which looked promising, so I got my delicious roast lunch and a bonus of Jam Roly Poly for desert.

    Finally dragged our full bellies away and found the Cow and Calf a very windy mountain top on the Ilkley Moor, and then Rombald's, a heather and bog moorland at the end of a windy steep road!    Leggi altro

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  • Karen LongViaggiatoreKings, Queens, Pubs n Castles

    York

    2 ottobre 2017, Inghilterra ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    Our last full day in the UK. Do we drive to York or take the train? The train won and good decision, Abby dropped us off at the station and it was much faster than driving, even with changing trains at Leeds. We were there in less than an hour.

    What a nice city York is, beautiful York Minister, The Shambles, The city walls. We visited all of these and had a great time just wandering around the older part of the city.

    Some friends of ours are coming to spend the night on our driveway in their motorhome. We had a lovely evening catching up on each other travel adventures. Theirs much longer than ours, they have been travelling for seven months in their motor home.    Leggi altro

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  • Karen LongViaggiatoreKings, Queens, Pubs n Castles
    Nyhavn
    Amalienborg!Not too close!Waiting for JohannaBest Buddies

    Copenhagen

    4 ottobre 2017, Danimarca ⋅ 🌧 12 °C

    After arriving in Denmark last night, took a bit of trail and error too figured out how to get into the city on the train. Nice quick trip and the train station was only a couple of blocks from the hotel.

    We had a bit of a walk around the city in the morning and then Joanna, Amalie and little Erik came to pick us up.

    The girls had organised a tour through some of the palace rooms for us, so after negating the Downton traffic and finding a park we made it there. The changing of the guards had just finished a little while ago which was a good thing because only a handful of tourists were left.

    The tour was in Danish that day but the girls did there best to interpret as much as they could and it was wonderful to see all the staterooms and receptions areas. So ornate with beautiful tapestries and painting everywhere.

    One peculiar room was highlighted in gold and Erik couldn't get over it, he kept throwing back his head to look at the ceiling. Then he found his voice and figured out he sounded nice and echoy in these big rooms. After about five minutes the security guard asked if one of the girls would take him out. Poor little man I didn't think he was that bad. But he will have a good story when he's older. Only six months old the first time you're chucked out of somewhere.

    We waved to Mary and Frederick on the way out, saw the lights were on so I'm sure they were watching. We were all starving by then so off to find some lunch at the gorgeous Nyhavn. Beautiful area on the canal with lots of restaurants and cafes. Too cold to sit outside today though!

    The girls are great company and even though Copenhagen is not really their normal stomping ground, they did really well to keep us entertained with bits of history and fun facts!

    We had to fight the afternoon traffic to get back to Horby where Amalie lives and we are staying for the first two nights.

    It's so lovely after 7 weeks to have someone else do all the organising everything for you. We're very happy to sit back and let Joanna lead the way.    Leggi altro

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  • Karen LongViaggiatoreKings, Queens, Pubs n Castles
    Houses around the Cathedral
    Roskilde DomkirkeViking HarbourAltarIn his happy place!

    Roskilde

    5 ottobre 2017, Danimarca ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    The girls had another great day planned for us. We are off to see the cathedral in Roskilde , and then to see the Viking Museum. But first we have to get Millie off to day care and have a delicious bacon and egg breakfast.

    The Roskilde Cathedral is a very important church for the danish people. 20 kings and 18 queens are buried here. As well as Harold Bluetooth who the Danish designer took the name for the now famous Bluetooth! It looks very modest from the outside, but on the inside there are lots of alcoves coming off the main part of the church. The architecture and decorations are amazing. So much history for the danish people. The present queen has designed her own crypt ready for her funeral, with stone from the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Its a bit of a question at the moment whether her prince will be buried with her or not.

    The girls were fascinated and we had a lovely time reading about all the kings and queens of Denmark. Erik even managed to keep himself under control this time as well although there was just as much gold in this church. Luckily the church closes for lunch at one o'clock or we might still have been there.

    There are some pretty buildings in the area around the Cathedral and we found a nice cafe there for lunch.

    After lunch we were off to the Viking ship museum. They found five Viking ships in the harbour here in the sixties and have reconstructed them like a big jigsaw. All five boat have also been replicated and are anchored in their little harbour! They are on display at the museum along with lots of other relics found in the area.

    There is a rope display where they show you how all the ropes were made, a carving section and a boatbuilding area where they are still making Viking ships there today and Graham tried his hand at carving. Think he's missing the shed!

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