Park Inn Nottingham

Woke up late at the Premier Inn Nottingham and had a big Premier breakfast.  An all-you-can-eat affair so boys loaded up with cereal and cooked brekky. Warhammer opens at 10am.  Much anticipation.  Deighted to find that our hotel is just ...

... not that strong, seems a feature of my UK airport hotels. The Jury inn at Hatton Cross was cold too. I had bought a sandwich from Nottingham, and a pint of milk from the airport M&S so ate and made tea. Not much on TV, drank a few cans of Guinness ...

... truck a brazillian behind us, who has been speaking portuglease throughout the day taps me on the shoulder and shouts "Hey Nottingham" as he thrusts his digital SLR camera in my face to show me his picture of the sunset.. POSER!!.. We look at ...

... and the harsh, cold water that surrounds the city is reminiscent of the Derwent, but less developed. After a pretty ordinary night in Nottingham involving ridiculously hot rooms and a guy that decided to come in and bang on a door next to ours in the ...

York.Getting here was a bit of an issue. We ended upgoing around in big circils in Nottingham. When the GPS tells you stay right in a 4 lane area then as soon as you get around the corner it tells you to turn left you don't have  much hope. Its bit ...

We had landed in Nottingham airport and then waited for unknown guy from Poland, which should picked us up. He took us to Premier Inn hotel on the suburb of Manchester. Immediately we got asleep, becasue the next day morning in 7am we had to be in ...

... was a World Music festival scheduled to start at 7pm that evening. The trip was only 480kms in total - like a trip from London to Nottingham and back, but on such a small bike this would feel more like a trip from London to John 'O Groats! After a quick ...

... our plan.  We stopped at the Barge Inn and met some others who were also looking for circles.  They told us about a car park to stop at that had a great view of the largest and most recent crop circle (it was found on July 7).  After ...

... and Nick said Nottingham. Guy: Are you from Nottingham or Nottingham Forest?! Nick: ....... Nottingham Forest... is a football team. I'm from Nottingham. The place. Guy: That's in Yorkshire right? Nick: ....... No. It's in the Midlands. Guy: Oh right. ...

... a whole rollercoaster just for the 4 days that the fair runs. On Saturday, we bussed the half-hour from Ilkeston to Nottingham and spent the afternoon visiting Robin Hood's town. Due to a festival being held within the castle grounds, we didn't go ...

... visitors arriving on our doorstep, both from Canada and Aus and have we managed to drag ourselves back to Bridgenorth, Stratford and Nottingham as well as going to Licoln, complete with a trip to the 'beach', Tewkesbury and finally getting out ...

... and hot, the plates are very hot. It was good. We go into town to the Tourist Information Office and get information on Nottingham Castle and Sherwood Forest.  We walk to the castle, it is very high on a hill and overlooks the city and surrounding ...

... news last night that Europe has been having an unusually cold winter while ours has been just the opposite.  We saw that Nottingham, where Rachel and her family are, was 32 degrees yesterday.  Don't think their temps typically get that ...

... as obsessed as Andy, I don't know! And what's more, he is based in the East Midlands and lives in Ruddington (near Nottingham), which I know well. It was during this conversation that it dawned on me that I would be in the wilderness of the West coast ...

... situated up the hill and a couple of flights of stairs to our unit.  We paid for electricity like Kenmore, but a fixed rate like Nottingham. In this case it was 45L. Like Edinburgh, we have a washing machine, but no dryer. It appears to be an older ...