This Has to Stop.

august - september 2018

The is absolutely, positively, most likely the last time we do this. Les mer

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- 6. aug. 2018, 18:06
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Høyde: 65 m
- England Alnwick Alnwick Castle 55.414783, -1.70860955°24’53” N 1°42’31” W
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Dirty Bottle Hotel
6. august 2018, England ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Alnwick Is a very interesting little town of which more latter.
Finally found our B&B after driving into a ladies yard next door. She helpfully said it was next door with the blue sign.
They had taken the gateposts and sign down either recently or she is not very observant.
A shortish walk down hill from the B&B where we are staying.
The walk backup was much, much longer.
A good selection of pubs for dinner, The White Swan, The Black Swan, The Fox, the usual set if Crowns and George’s.
Finally decided on the Dirty Bottle which had a great story attached. Apparently a previous publican had moved some bottles from a window and dropped dead. His wife declared them cursed and they have not been moved since.
Not sure if this was a life insurance scam. They are still there although the place has been been extensively renovated so the contractors must have had a challenge.

Biggest burgers west of the Pennines and a serving of chips and onion rings that would kill you. Bernadette in heaven.Les mer
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Reisende Kicked the vegan habit, then?
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- 8. aug. 2018, 08:00
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Høyde: 46 m
- Tyskland Berlin Mitte Museum Island 52.523879, 13.39981152°31’26” N 13°23’59” E
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That went well and Berlin in a fuge stat
8. august 2018, Tyskland ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Plan to be awake in time for first shuttle to airport at 5am.

Awake since 1am for some reason, hotel quite, bed good, not to hot, must be thought of Manchester Airport Terminal 1.
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Reisende Understandable.
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- 8. aug. 2018, 18:15
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Høyde: 78 m
- England Ponteland Milbourne 55.076283, -1.79852355°4’35” N 1°47’55” W
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A Seafood Restaurant ?
8. august 2018, England ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Staying at Catch Seafood a seafood restaurant and pub in basically the middle of nowhere.
We drove past it two days ago and commented it was a strange place for seafood.
Now we are back and it is a most upmarket place at a very mid market price. We suspect their accommodation business model is based on illicit stays. The bath in the middle of the bedroom with candle and champagne flute holder is often a give away.
Looking forward to the fish though.

Fish pie was fantastic.

Bern went the low calorie route!!!!!!!Les mer
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Reisende This is hilarious!
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Reisende H style of bath. Can you include a rough indication of which part of the country you are in?
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- 9. aug. 2018, 10:34
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Høyde: 35 m
- England Ryedale District Nunnington 54.206841, -0.97348454°12’25” N 0°58’25” W
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Mount Grace Priory and Manor House
9. august 2018, England ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
An old Carthusian Priory and a manor house built in the old guesthouse in the 1880s as a holiday stay.
The rebuild was influenced by the Arts and Craft movement and has some very nice features including a genuine William Morris carpet.
The Carthusians were more like hermit monks and didn’t really live the communal life. The individual cells were like little two storey terrace houses. Everyone had a bedroom, a study, a oratory and a large upstairs workroom.Les mer
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- 9. aug. 2018, 13:28
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Høyde: 33 m
- England Ryedale District Nunnington 54.206871, -0.97330854°12’25” N 0°58’24” W
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Nunnington Hall
9. august 2018, England ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Another National Trust gem.
Tucked away at the bottom of the Howardian Hills (a site of outstanding national beauty, not uncommon English accolade but in this case not misapplied) the place is terrific. Great garden with a most Bernadette garden cafe. Sculpture in the garden and pheasants awandering.Les mer
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- 10. aug. 2018, 11:40
- 🌧 15 °C
- Høyde: 78 m
- England Ryedale District Castle Howard Henderskelfe Castle 54.121212, -0.90649654°7’16” N 0°54’23” W
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Castle Howard Gardens
10. august 2018, England ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Because Mark is an idiot we have never been here before despite driving almost by the front gate several occasions in the past.
What a great place.
Ancestral home of the Howard family, it’s been through some ups and downs since building started in in 1702. Had the almost obligatory country house fire in 1944 and parts are still not renovated.

Huge place designed by John Vanbrugh who also planned Blenheim Palace.
Good only to work on big things. You can see the similarities between the two although the guide suggested this was a more “domestic “ set of buildings! If by domestic you mean the size of a city block.

Has the biggest family mausoleum in Northern Europe with spaces for 67 and a restoration bill of over 17million pounds. Death is not cheap.

Had sun, rain, wind during the day, a real Yorkshire day.

Of course has a couple of Follies; The Temple of The Four Winds, an obelisk the size of Sydney Tower, a pyramid a little smaller than Giza and a fountain called Atlas. Unfortunately he’s not working as the water levels are low due to the lack of rain.

Will just have to come back to see.Les mer
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- 10. aug. 2018, 13:00
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Høyde: 12 m
- England Selby District Hambleton 53.770172, -1.16777653°46’13” N 1°10’4” W
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Castle Howard Inside
10. august 2018, England ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
It’s amazing that they were able to put the place back together after the fire in 1944.

Saint Margaret’s Girls school had been evacuated there during the war and it appears they were very enthusiastic throwing paintings and books Aon the windows to save what they could.

The dome collapsed into the hall and was eventually replaced despite there being no architectural drawings of how wit was constructed. The mural in the interior was repainted using only old black and white photos and best guess at colour.

Whole place is splendid.Les mer
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Reisende What a lovely place. Excellent pics. Like the moody ones. Good eye
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- 10. aug. 2018, 15:03
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Høyde: 49 m
- England Brodsworth 53.557603, -1.23770553°33’27” N 1°14’16” W
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Bodsworth House
10. august 2018, England ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
The was a bit of luck.

Slow drive with quite a few delays thanks to Friday afternoon traffic and we just made it to see the house.

Build by the terrifically named Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson who demolished a Georgian house 4 times the size it was a Macmansion of its day with over 30 rooms, 16 bedrooms and 17 servants. It had all the mod cons with Hugh windows and outside blind shutters that look amazingly modern. All for the quite reasonable cost of 2 million in today’s money
It was eventually given to English Heritage after the National Trust knocked it back as it didn’t include the estate.
Given that is after they agreed to pay 3 million pound for the furniture. That’s what makes it so unique as it’s almost a complete Victorian county house.
For the last 18 years before the gift the last lady lived it it alone with her dogs, deteriorating surrounds and occupied only 3 rooms. It cost them another 5 million to restore it.

Fantastic place looking like someone just steps out.Les mer
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Reisende Oh I love this
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Reisende I can see this in your new kitchen Bern 😉
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- 10. aug. 2018, 16:00
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- England Brodsworth 53.557603, -1.23770553°33’27” N 1°14’16” W
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Bodsworth Gardens
10. august 2018, England ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
The gardens are a topiary masterpiece.
However does the hedger is a god.

TOMB is now taking orders.
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Reisende Incredible
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Reisende Tomb hasn’t enough time for this job
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Reisende You can’t beat an English Garden!!!
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- 11. aug. 2018, 09:46
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Høyde: 38 m
- England Newark and Sherwood District Southwell 53.078024, -0.95531453°4’41” N 0°57’19” W
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To the Workhouse
11. august 2018, England ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
It was time to head South.
So much to see, so little time.

As soon as we saw there was a Workhouse to be see how could you miss it.

Last night was spent in a very pleasant country pub, The Owl, in a small town country town called Hambelton.
It was a real community centre and by the looks of some of the community they had been since youth.

The Workhouse was built in 1832 to hold 158 paupers and I’m not going to bore you with all the details (that’s Google’s job) but I will tell you that one of the classifications was “Able Bodied Idle and Profligate “.
Those of you who know where you fit need no further details.
The basis of the Workhouse sounds rather like the conservatives idea of welfare.... those who were poor were so because of the own fault and any relief should be as minimal, low cost to the wealth and as nasty as possible. All things are new again.

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