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5TH JANUARY 2011 - After breakfast in our room in Edinburgh we checked out about 11am. We didn't really want an early one. We went to the train station which is just across the road from our hotel (fabulous location our hotel) and it was so nice to hear the bagpipes blearing as we leave Edinburgh.
We get to the train station and I minded …
Durham and York
... 11th century Norman Cathedral of Durham. Unlike Westminster Abbey, the Cathedral was very decoratively clean on the inside. The windows were smaller, the construction stone more light in colour and not nearly as covered by inscriptions and tombs. Huge columns, decorated by simple patterns lined the nave and beyond. From the centre of the cross, one could see a good way up the bell tower, and made it easy to imagine what Tintern Abbey might have been like. The back of the cathedral ...
Airports and aeroplanes
... version of every popular Christmas song?! On repeat?! It is nothing short of a miracle that I didn't go crazy listening to it, people could've been killed and I truly believe that any jury would've pardoned such acts of violence had they have been given a sample tape as evidence of this God awful music! Anyways, my flight's called (finally) and this time I have a window seat next to an elderly oriental lady. She is either very ignorant or deaf as ...
A few pints before we leave!
... huge bunch of flowers from Marcus and Jenny and of course, the Miss Piggy companion for Kermit... who himself sends a very big thank you to Claire!
I would have said we are now counting the days until we leave, but Norma started that months ago...
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A York That´s Not New
... to the excellent York Castle Museum. Displays focused on various aspects of the last 4 centuries. We were just having a jolly good time, going from exhibit to exhibit, when we were stopped dead in our tracks. In adisplay of kitchens over the last 100 years, lo and behold, representing the kitchen of the 70-80s was.... our kitchen, wood-trimmed almond cupboards and all. Yes, our kitchen had made it into a museum. Was this a message from above? ...