One of my favourite locations to visit when in London is that of The Wallace Collection, a combination of Stately Home, museum, art gallery and armoury.

Here's a small taster -


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One of the places I went to was The British Museum.  I do love that museum ... and there is always something to see ... something to share with you all ...


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One of the reasons I picked this specific trip to Egypt was that one of the visits would be to El Alamein.  This was a major battle during WWII.  My sister-in-law's grandfather was based here, as well, during that time, bringing it to a more personal level.  As it turned out the lady on the tour with me also found it a moving location, as her ( Read more... )

One of the museums I visited while in London was while I was at Greenwich - The National Maritime Museum

One of the English hero's that has quite a bit of his history here is Admiral Lord Nelson


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As part of my trip to Europe we spent a day looking at the little known battle to liberate the Scheldt Estuary in Holland.

Before we went to the location we went to the amazing "For Freedom" Museum , which is a privately owned museum in Belgium. The original owner was a British soldier, who had met and married a local after the war. It is now run ( Read more... )

We started Wednesday off by going to Sanctury Wood The name was earned because it was an area where soldiers who had been "displaced" during the fighting could re-group before heading back to their regimental location ( Read more... )

Well I have some more photos to share.  On the Wednesday we had lunch at Hooge Crater Museum .... it is a great museum with a combination of items gathered from the war, but also models depicting life in the trenches ... both Commonwealth & German.


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The first cemetery we visited was St Symphorien Military Cemetery ... containing early graves from WWI, as well as a few of the last deaths on 11/11/1918


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On the first day I was in Belfast I used the "Hop On Hop Off" bus, and got off at The Botanic Gardens ... lovely.  On the edge of the gardens was the Ulster Museum.  I will admit it wasn't a great lay-out (from my point of view) as I seemed to see a few things more than once, and missed other things completely ... oh well, here's a taster -


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As I said, we went to Crediton

Town Square -

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