In May 2005 Val and I set off on a holiday trip to the UK. We didn’t blog about it as we went along, because we did not always have internet access, so this is written after the event ( Read more... )

I nicked this idea from poliphilo, and it seemed rather fun. But like poliphilo I'm not quite sure which ones count. I counted all the ones I've actually slept in, but not those I've just travelled through to get to other places. There are some iffy ones though. Stopping in Lincolnshire to look at churchyards in places where ancestors had lived. Stopped in Wrecsam ( Read more... )

Nearly 40 years ago I visited the UK for the first time to study at St Chad's College, Durham. I was in the UK from January 1966 to July 1968, and for the first six months I was there drove buses for London Transport while waiting for the academic year to begin ( Read more... )