My travels for the last two years have been dominated by trains. I take joy in the fact that I can pretty much go “door-to-door” to destinations across Scotland, England, Wales, and indeed to those in Europe, and Asia. In principal, I could work out a route by rail from AUR to WTCP, in Singapore […]
After breakfast at my apartment, I walked the 20 minutes into the centre of York. It is a city with significant Roman, Viking, and Medieval history. It is perhaps the latter that is most represented in the architecture here. I have, in fact visited this city many times, but never as an adult. Family holidays […]
I took breakfast in a café next to the railway station before boarding my train to Peterborough to leave at 12.00. It was then a short wait at PBO with arrival at 12.49, and departure at 13.18.Arrival in YRK was scheduled to be at 14.32.Ive noted that railway information boards now have British Sign Language […]
Today marked my visit to King’s College chapel. This is a place I have seen many times, usually on Christmas Eve when “Carols from King’s” is shown on BBC television. I have long harboured a desire to visit, and this was my real motive for coming to this beautiful city. The chapel was at least […]
There is much to see in this city. I spend most of the day wandering the city, and seeing the sites including many of the Colleges associated with the university. The big site was King’s College, and chapel. I had a ticket to enter here the following day so for today, I simply circumnavigated this […]
This was a day for changing cities. Going east or west across the country is often a tricky one as routes tend to go north and south. This being the case, my journey to Cambridge involved two changes; one at Leeds, and one at Peterborough. In fact, my ticket was also split at Doncaster as […]
Today, I made it my mission to trace the history of the popular 20th century music group The Beatles”. The sites I was interested in were all in the east of the city, a considerable walk from my location in Lydia Ann Street. This being the case , I took a train to “Mossley Hill”. […]
I took a light breakfast at my apartment before walking 20 minutes south towards The Docks. Here I wanted to visit the Museum of Liverpool, in order to expand my knowledge of this city. I knew that I would encounter other attractions in this area as well. My instincts were correct. I the buildings around […]
I dropped off my apartment keys at the shop where I had picked them up, before partaking in coffee, and a danish at the cafe next to the station. There were many trains leaving the platform before mine at 12.11, but it departed only a minute after the scheduled time. The journey was around 50 […]
Usually on holiday, I would buy some supplies such that breakfast can be taken at my apartment before I leave. However, on this occasion I will be moving from city to city, making such an arrangement trickier. After careful consideration I did buy some eggs, butter, ketchup, tea, and milk, and resolved to carry these […]