tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67783716902350061942024-03-04T23:21:00.766-08:00Jenny's Travel Diaryjennyalogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12026183619148478639noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778371690235006194.post-78928250394271611812015-08-05T08:49:00.000-07:002015-08-05T08:49:46.843-07:00Tallinn, Estonia<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Our tour of Tallinn in Estonia started with a one and a half hour bus
tour around town. We saw lots of "typical" homes from the coach, and
then got out of the coach and walked down to see the Palace in Catherine's
Valley (Catherinethal in German, the palace is known as the Kadriorg Palace in
Estonian). The palace was built by Peter the Great for his wife Catherine I (who
is NOT Catherine the Great - she came later and also happened to be married to
a Peter).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Our next stop was the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds. Every five
years a massive crowd attend the Estonia Song Festival here, and in between it
is used for concerts by visiting artists, like Rod Stewart and Madonna. The locals are obviously very proud of it, but I thought it was
unimpressive - though the pictures of the crowds there make me glad I was not
there at those times. The most fun bit of being there was seeing our
cruise liner at the dock in the distance. It was one of six there that day, meaning that
10,000 extra tourists were wandering around Tallinn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The coach then dropped us off and our guide walked us into the Upper
Town. Tallinn had, even in medieval times, an upper town and a lower
town. One of them (I've forgotten which) was part of the Hanseatic
League, and the other was governed as part of the normal government in force at
that time. Estonia first got it independence in 1918 after the First
World War. Before that it had been ruled by Sweden, Denmark and Russia at
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The first thing we looked at was the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.
Very Picturesque, but unfortunately covered in scaffolding. Photos were
not permitted inside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">We walked down a steep path to the lower town, where the Town Hall is
situated. In front of that were the markets. We were given 25
minutes to find somewhere to have lunch, order it, have it delivered and eat
it! Miraculously, we managed it. We actually had lunch in a Russian
Restaurant, <i>Troika</i>, which seems to be part of a chain of
restaurants. The food was very good!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pharmacy dating back to 1422 - Europe's oldest. It currently sells modern
medicines as well as having a display of old medicines
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Handpainting the marzipan sweets</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the finished marzipan sweets</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Our ship docked in Warnemünde earlier than expected, but we did not have
to meet our guide til 9:45, so were in no hurry to disembark. We eventually
did, and met up with our guide, who was leading a group of about 17 of us that
day. First thing to see was Warnemünde. This is the port town
associated with Rostock. Not surprisingly, it had once been a fishing
town, and after being told the history of the town we were taken to see where
the fishermen used to moor their boats, and also to see the house where
Edvard Munch had lived for about a year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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boarded a train which arrived in Rostock after about 20 minutes. From the
Rostock Hauptbahnhof (main train station) we took a tram to the Neues Markt
(new market). Most of the buildings we could see surrounding the square
appeared to be medieval, but in fact only one of them was. The rest had
been destroyed or damaged in WWII and rebuilt in a cheap way by the Communist
Government. More recently the new German government has added façades that
are more in keeping with the buildings that existed prior to the war.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the war, due to the efforts of the incumbent up on the roof with a bucket of
sand. Just like with St Paul's Cathedral in London, he was on the lookout
for incendiary bombs and smothered them in the sand before the church could
catch fire. Inside the church there was a very interesting astronomical
clock and another "clock" which could calculate the day of the week
for any date within the last 130 years or so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">On top of the astronomical
clock was a little balcony where, every day at noon, a little sequence is
revealed. The apostles all come out and Jesus blesses each of them in
turn and then they go through a little door representing the gates of heaven.
When the last apostle - Judas - appears Jesus does not bless him and the
door slams in his face. He is left there standing in front of the door
until the next performance at noon the following day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">We then walked down a picturesque street to get to the University of
Rostock. The main building was very attractive, but the university is
spread throughout the town, occupying numerous buildings where they can get
space.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">We left Rostock by a different train for the one hour trip to Schwerin.
When we arrived in Schwerin and had all disembarked from the train. Then
one of our tour group darted back into the train. The guide had no choice
but to follow him. The doors closed and the train took off with errant
passenger and guide on board. The rest of us just looked at each other
thinking "what do we do now!" One of our group who I know well
looked at me and said "Well, you need to be in charge now Jenny, as you're
the only one who can speak German!" Speaking German is one thing, but
knowing where to go and what to do is a different matter! We did go
downstairs from the platform to the long tunnel underneath connecting the
several platforms that comprise the station. Here people could use the
bathrooms, while I looked at the departure and arrival timetables (in German),
to work out how long it would take the guide to get to the next stop and then
get the next train back. It would be 25 minutes, so we all decided to
stay put in that area until then. As it turned out, the guide and wayward
tourist were back earlier than that as they'd walked back from the second stop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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picturesque little town, and lunch was ready for us when we got there, as we
had all made our choice of one of the four dishes while on the train and the
guide had phoned the order through to the restaurant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and pinnacles surrounded by a moat and lake, though unfortunately some of
it was covered in scaffolding. We walked around the castle and then went
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jennyalogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12026183619148478639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778371690235006194.post-2979799259225916762015-07-30T12:06:00.001-07:002015-07-30T12:06:42.946-07:00Bruges<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">We decided to use the cruise's package <i>Bruges on your Own</i> to
see the medieval Belgian Town, as getting there by public transport would have
been a long and boring process. As it was we still had a long walk from
where the coach parked to the town centre, but our "guide" walked us
there. While we were on the 30 minute coach trip from the ship she had
given us a map on which she had marked a suggested walk and talked to us about
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easily spent three days. It's a lovely little place, criss-crossed with
canals, and with so many old buildings and cobbled streets. </span></div>
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tools seemed particularly popular (nuts, bolts, spanners, mallets), but we also
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it happened we did not try any of the beer, or go to a brewery (though there
was a town brewery which was open), but Andy was determined to have some
Waffles. The day had been a little overcast and at about 11.30 the rain
came down, so we decided that was a good time to duck into a cafe for an early
lunch, followed (for Andy) by a fresh waffle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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July - 25 July 2015</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ship (the Celebrity Eclipse) is HUGE - it's as long as the Eiffel Tower is high
(over 1000 feet long). It is carrying about 2800 passengers, but with
crew it comes to about 5000 people in total. There are 15 bars on the
ship, along with numerous restaurants and eateries, and three pools - one an
indoor heated one, called the Solarium. The loungers around this pool became
one of Andy's favourite places to lie back and relax during sea-days. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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one criticism is that although the waiters etc are very friendly, they are also
very pushy, trying to get you to upgrade to a beverage package or similar.
Despite the cost of the cruise, they are still very keen to wring as much
extra money out of you as possible. Nothing is cheap on board - a Diet
Coke costs US$4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nights we ate in the formal restaurant, where there was a four course dinner
provided (though I could rarely manage the dessert). It was very nice, but by the
end of the fortnight I was wishing for something simpler, like a grilled chop
(with no sauce all over it). The servings were also often very big - when I
ordered chicken or duck I got a half a bird each time!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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went and watched a lot of the shows, though since I was attended the genealogy
lectures I saw far fewer. I did see the Beatles show one night, which was
fantastic, and Andy says was the highlight of the shows for him. The four
guys who were performing really got the mannerisms of the Beatles down pat, and
it was also lovely to hear the music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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one stage we had five shore days (with tours) in a row, which became a bit
tiring, though interesting. Reports of all the shore tours will follow,
and reports of the genealogy talks (for those who are interested) will be in my
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Between the lifts, with tree growing<br />from copper ball</td></tr>
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took a coach down to our ship in Southampton. On the way we stopped at
Stonehenge. We had visited it before, of course, but had not been up to
the stones since they built the new visitors centre (see <a href="http://jennyjtravel.blogspot.fr/2015/01/back-in-england.html">last year's visit to the area</a>). You can get closer to the stones at one point than you used to be
able to, and the audio guide helps with understanding what you are seeing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We had planned to visit the refurbished World War I galleries at the Imperial War Museum on our last trip to the UK, but decided that since it only reopened in the last week before we left (having been closed for a very long time) the crowds would be too great. So this time it was definitely on the agenda.</div>
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As we walked from the bus-stop the dome of the museum was instantly recognizable above the tree line and pretty soon we were standing in front of the building with its enormous canons out front.<br />
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We went in and looked at the central atrium which had spitfires and harriers, V1s and V2s and even the remains of cars bombed out in Iraq. Then we went into the WWI galleries. The display took a very different slant on the war to that shown in the Australian War Memorial. It was more focused on the home front, though there were a number of items relating to the front line. After looking at the WWI galleries we had a quick look at the WWII galleries, but we were pretty tired by then.</div>
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To be honest, I didn't think it was a patch on the Australian War Memorial. When I am there I come away feeling very emotional - the dioramas there particularly are very powerful. This felt a bit superficial and a bit sanitised from the horror of war. Frankly it felt like it had all been set up for the key stages of the school modern history syllabus.jennyalogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12026183619148478639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778371690235006194.post-15091628020231602072015-07-26T12:28:00.000-07:002015-07-26T12:28:05.534-07:00Covent Garden and Westminster<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
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We discovered by accident that
a Tube strike was planned for the Thursday of our stay, with the tubes starting
to shut down from early evening on Wednesday. This wasn't a major drama
for us as our hotel was so central that we just arranged our day around things
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The first walk we chose was <i>Inside Covent
Garden.</i> It was excellent (as these walks usually are). Initially we
were told about the history of Covent Garden, then we went to St Paul's Church,
Covent Garden (which I had not been able to get into on Sunday). It is known as
"the Actor's Church" and contains memorials to all sorts of actors
and entertainers. Outside the church there is one of the last night-watchman's
boxes, used by the night-watchmen to keep dry or to lock up miscreants while
there were watching the graveyard looking out for "resurrection men"
(i.e. body snatchers). It looks like a Tardis, and I really wonder if it
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Then we were taken into Simpson's-in-the-Strand. It had
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the years. It became noted for chess - even known as the home of chess -
and it was one of the members who designed the chess pieces we know today.
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We then looked at various other points of interest around
the Strand before heading to Maiden Lane (which runs parallel to the Strand) to
see Rules Restaurant. It is the oldest restaurant in England, having been
established in 1798. We got to see inside before it had opened, so were
able to see things like a private dining room that we wouldn't have been able
to see during business hours. It was fascinating, and it was also used in an
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We then looked at the undercroft at St Martin-in-the-Fields, which is located near Trafalgar Square. We actually had lunch there before walking down Whitehall for our next walk, and after lunch I did a brass rubbing. </div>
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The next walk was <i>Old Westminster</i>. By this time it had become quite hot. In the morning it had been cool and overcast, so we didn't think to bring hats and we certainly regretted that.</div>
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The Westminster Walk covered the British Parliament (correctly called the Palace of Westminster), St Margaret's Church (the one next to Westminster Abbey, the Political Saloons of Westminster and Westminster School (from the outside only, of course). </div>
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By the time that walk ended we were hot and tired so had to stop for a drink. We then walked back along the embankment. There were enormous queues snaking along the footpaths of people trying to get onto a ferry (since there were no tubes) and I felt very sorry for them.</div>
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We had dinner in an old pub on the Strand called <i>The Coal Hole</i> where we had eaten last trip and then had an early night.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next was a visit to Borough Market in Southwark. We had visited on a Saturday on our previous trip to London, but this time were visiting on a Wednesday, so there were only about half the number of market stalls open. It was still wonderful seeing all the fresh produce, and we bought various bits and pieces for a picnic at Green Park. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were almost finished when we started to feel a few drops of rain. Instead of going on the walk we'd intended (in case it poured with rain) we decided to do our own leisurely walk back to out hotel. First detour was into Fortnum and Mason's. I love that store, but Andy had never been there before. Amazingly, it was him - not me - who pointed out a couple of things he wanted to buy. I was happy to just look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We found a wonderful place for pre-theatre dinner - San Carlo Cicchetti.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That night we went to the theatre to see David Suchet starring as Lady Bracknell in <i>The Importance of Being Ernest</i>. It was a wonderful production and very funny.</span><br />
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On our first night we planned to visit the theatre. As it was a Sunday most theatres were closed, but that turned out to be serendipitous. We chose a play called <i>The Play That Goes Wrong</i>. It didn't have any actors that I knew, so we probably wouldn't have chosen it if all the other theatres had been open, but I'm glad we did end up there. It was hysterically funny.</div>
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The basic premise is that a rather amateurish group of people - the Cornley Polytechnic's Drama Society - are putting on a production of <i>The </i><i>Murder at Haversham Manor</i>. Everything that could go wrong with the performance does go wrong. The audience are taking their seats while the stage is still being set up, parts of the sets fall down, the lead actress gets knocked unconscious so the awkward and frumpy stage manager gets shoved out on stage with a dress pulled on over her overalls and a wig on her head (with her plaits showing underneath the wig). She has a copy of the script to read the lines of the unconscious leading lady, which she does in a very stilted (but totally hilarious) way. One disaster after another had the audience in stitches. There was even a lighting technician asking the audience if they'd seen his missing Duran Duran CD.<br />
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They retain the pretense of being the Cornley Polytechnic's Drama Society in the show program, which is in itself an amusing read. The slapstick-style humour of the play had me roaring with laughter. If you have a chance to see it then I recommend that you do. <br />
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jennyalogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12026183619148478639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778371690235006194.post-48384457610453831532015-07-10T10:16:00.000-07:002015-07-10T10:16:25.991-07:00The Hidden Pubs of Old London Town<div>
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I worked at Kew, but also met up with a friend who works there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Old London Town</i>. We visited three pubs, but the first stop was in the
middle temple, where we learned a bit about the history of theatre in London
(as opposed to Southwark on the other side of the river, which is where all the
theatres were in Shakespeare's day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first pub we visited was <i>The Edgar Wallace.</i> It was a strange
pub. Or rather, the interior decor was strange. Along with books - mostly
if not all written by Edgar Wallace - the ceiling was adorned with hundreds of
beer mats and the walls with old advertising signs, many of which were for
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Thompson (publisher of Beano and now owner of findmypast), the through courts
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">On our first full day in London we decided to do two of the <a href="http://www.walks.com/">London Walks</a> which we found to be excellent on our last visit. Our first walk was <i>Mayflower to Brunel's London</i>. This highlight of this tour was to be allowed inside "the 8th wonder of the world" which was described as "an underground cathedral" - the Grand Entrace to Brunel's tunnel under the Thames But more of that later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next stop was to look at some statues made in honour of local man Dr Salter and his family, and then the remains of a Manor House that had been built for Edward III. After that was another stopping point by the river. Up until that point we had been only in Bermondsey, but then we ventured into Rotherhithe. There we saw the Mayflower Pub, which claims to be the oldest pub on the Thames. It was from here in 1620 that the ship of the same name sailed down to Southampton to collect the people destined to become known to history as the Pilgrim Fathers. I assume there must have been Pilgrim Mothers, too, but history only talks of the Pilgrim Fathers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The reality was quite different. We were in a blocked off entrance shaft, that looked tired and grubby. It was very disappointing. And apart from saying that Henry, the son of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was one of the architects/engineers responsible for the design and building of Tower Bridge, this is the only time the Brunels were mentioned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This guide also went over time, meaning that we couldn't get to the 2pm walk we wanted to do if we wanted to eat anything for lunch. We decided to have a very quick lunch in the Mayflower and then get a taxi to a walk that started at 2.30. Andy asked the pub to call us a taxi, but he told them we wanted to go to Tower Hill, which is where the earlier walk had started. We were told the taxi would be 5 minutes, but it took 20, and when it turned up it was a mini-cab. We told the driver we wanted to go to St Paul's Cathedral, not Tower Hill, and he had no idea where it was - he just kept asking us to give him the postcode. Luckily we had smart phones so could quickly look it up. Surprisingly we made it just as the 2.30 walk was starting. This walk was <i>London's Secret Village</i>. The village in question is Clerkenwell, but before we got there we looked around St Bartholomew's Hospital, Smithfield, Charterhouse square and St John's Gate. Then we were into Clerkenwell, which surrounds Clerkenwell Green. Except it isn't green. And there is no sign of the well that used to be there and gave the area its name. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have to say Clerkenwell itself was pretty ordinary, but some of the places we saw before we got there were very interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That night we decided we were too tired to go to the theatre, so had a relaxed dinner and an early night.</span></div>
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<u>5 July 2015</u></div>
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We headed down to London from Norfolk where we had been staying with Andy's cousin. Very soon after we set off the rain started, but by the time we made it to London it had cleared up. While Andy was returning the hire car to Heathrow I had a bit of a wander around.
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The first area I headed to was Covent Garden. By now not only had the rain stopped, but it was sunny and quite warm. This sunny warm Sunday afternoon had brought out the crowds in force, and I really didn't enjoy being in those crowds or with the noise. </div>
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I tried to go and visit St Paul's Covent Garden, but it seemed to be closed to visitors, so I decided to wander off in a general westerly direction through some little alleys etc in the hope of discovering something interesting I had not seen before. I didn't really find anything, but did end up at Leicester Square. When I had lived in London for a year Leicester Square had been boarded up the whole time, so it was the first time I had seen the square. From there I went to Trafalgar Square. The lions and fountains had also been boarded up when I lived there, so it was the first time I had seen the lions.
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I wandered around a bit longer before I got a call from Andy saying that he had arrived, and we arranged to meet in a pub we had been to when we last visited London. We discussed our room. I was very pleased to have gotten a good price on a room in the Waldorf, but the reason was obviously because the room was minuscule. There was no room to lay a suitcase down on the floor to find anything, so since we are staying six nights, we decided to request an upgrade. So it turns out not to have been such a bargain, but never mind. It's a very convenient location. And the upgrade gets us access to the Executive Lounge, where we can get breakfast, afternoon tea and pre-dinner drinks and nibbles for free.</div>
jennyalogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12026183619148478639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778371690235006194.post-61671896853295517572015-07-05T04:46:00.000-07:002015-07-08T07:57:15.053-07:00Oxburgh Hall and Castle Acre<div style="text-align: right;">
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The Hall also had on display three embroideries done by Mary Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick when the former was a prisoner at Fotheringhay. The panels were mounted onto the green hangings at a later date.<br />
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One of the towers of the castle had a priest's hole cut into the thick stone walls, and it is believed that it was used twice. Spiral stairs lead up to the roof of one of the towers, where there are extensive views over the Norfolk countryside.</div>
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After going around the castle and then having some lunch we went to the village of Castle Acre, which has an old priory and a castle. The village looked lovely as we drove through it en route to the Priory. When we got to the ruined priory it was really quite expensive to go in, so we just had a look from outside the fence, and then headed back to the picturesque village for a cup of tea and a piece of cake. On the way out we stopped by the ruined castle and took a photo and then headed back to our accommodation.<br />
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jennyalogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12026183619148478639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778371690235006194.post-82685623189144100762015-07-04T04:23:00.000-07:002015-07-04T04:23:14.452-07:00Norwich<div style="text-align: right;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are currently staying with Andy's cousin, Sarah, who lives in Norfolk about 20 minutes from Norwich, so naturally we decided to visit that city. Sarah offered to drive us in and then pick us up later when we were finished, and I was very glad she did. If she hadn't I'm sure we'd still be lost somewhere in Norwich.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Every year Norwich chooses an animal and statues of it are made which are then decorated by various local businesses and schools and so on. They are kept on display at a variety of places around the city for a certain amount of time, and then auctioned for charity. This year's "animals" are dragons.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">We spent quite a long time in Norwich looking at the cathedral. The architecture was very interesting, but it didn't have as many interesting memorials as some of them do. Just outside the cathedral, near the apse, is one grave - that of Edith Cavell, the British nurse who was court-martialled by the Germans, found guilty of treason and executed by firing squad.</span><br />
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We decided to visit Lavenham in Suffolk and set off in that direction. Lavenham is an old market town which retains many of its medieval buildings, including a lovely old Guildhall. Weaving, fulling and dying were important industries, and the town was famous for its "Lavenham Blue" wool, dyed with woad. The town is full of picturesque and colourful buildings. It was very warm wandering around, but very pleasant.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside Guildhall - the cushion on the settee is of<br />Lavenham Blue wool.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Building known as "The Crooked House".<br />I wonder why.</td></tr>
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We flew out of Sydney on a mild winter's day. We had hoped to book business class seats on points, but there weren't any available, so we paid for Premium Economy seats and requested an upgrade on each leg. We were not in luck. Apparently they have dramatically reduced the number of Business Class seats on the planes, so I don't think we'll be lucky on the way back either.</div>
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Two days before we were due to fly out I came down with a cold - for the first time in several years! </div>
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After a long flight - during which I didn't sleep much but constantly had to keep blowing my nose - we arrived to an overcast and drizzly England. We picked up our hire car and headed off to St Neots in Cambridgeshire, where Andy's parents lived. It was a Sunday and there was no traffic on the roads, so we made better time than we'd expected to. We visited his parents and stayed there til mid afternoon, when we headed to our B&B to get a bit of sleep before dinner with Andy's parents, brother and sister-in-law, and their four children.</div>
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The place we are staying at, Model Farm in Little Gransden, is lovely. We have a very comfortable room in a converted outbuilding. Sadly, they have decided not to do B&B any more, so we wouldn't be able to stay here again.</div>
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Monday morning we woke to a glorious day. We were not seeing Andy's relatives that day, so decided to head to Cambridge. We've been to Cambridge on two previous occasions, but there were still lots of things we hadn't seen, so it seemed a good destination.</div>
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The first thing we visited was the Round Church. We'd seen it from the outside before, of course, but had never been inside. It's a Norman church built about 1130, so it predates the University by about 80 years (the University started in 1209, when a group of scholars fled Oxford after "town and gown" trouble and settled in Cambridge). As well as looking at the interior of this little church, there was a series of panels documenting the history of Cambridge, and a video about the town.</div>
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We got some food and drinks for lunch, and Andy had the idea he wanted to go and sit on the grass in the Backs (the area the other side of the river Cam than the famous colleges), and we headed off to do that. Unfortunately there didn't seem to be many places we could sit and see the river. We came to the back gate of Clare College. We'd been there before, and I remembered that there were lovely gardens on the far side of the river, so we paid out entrance fee and entered. We found a lovely spot near a willow tree and had our lunch. I was flicking through the guide book I'd bought and saw a picture of the main entrance which sported a sign saying that "No cycles, dogs, radios or picnics". Oops. Too late. And we weren't the only ones - there were people the other side of the willow eating their lunch as well. </div>
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jennyalogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12026183619148478639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778371690235006194.post-56635138991917763432015-06-25T19:27:00.002-07:002015-06-25T19:27:30.914-07:00Visit to a Crannog<span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Do you know what a crannog is? Well, I couldn't remember, but when I saw "The Scottish Crannog Centre" marked on the map, I knew it rang a bell and that I had heard of a crannog before. We did a quick search on Wikipedia, and suddenly I knew where I'd heard of one before. It was on an episode of Time Team called<span> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The Crannog in the Lake.</i></span><br />
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A crannog is an ancient (bronze age?) fortified dwelling built over a loch, and archaeological remains of them can be found in Scotland and Ireland.</div>
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<span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">At this site they had built a reconstruction of a crannog over Loch Tay - an exercise in experimental archaeology that is now open to the public. We were taken into it by a costumed guide who told us all about it. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bridge to the crannog</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">It was a truly fascinating stop. I think these sort or experimental archaeology sites are great, because they allow us to really visualise, and even feel, what it would have been like inside an iron/bronze age residence, and to see just how easily (or otherwise) things like wood turning could have been </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">achieved</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">. For the record, it looked like it would have been very cosy living there.</span>
jennyalogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12026183619148478639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778371690235006194.post-62210848789353791402015-06-25T00:19:00.000-07:002015-06-25T00:19:31.261-07:00Cawdor Castle<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">We all remember from our school days that Macbeth was thane of Cawdor, but he had nothing to do with Cawdor Castle near Nairn. But the castle is still a very interesting place. Dating from the late 14th century, it has naturally undergone some changes since then. it is still lived in by the current Dowager Countess, and has the feel of a comfortable family home. </span><br />
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We crossed from England into Scotland early in the morning, having spent the night only a mile from the border and headed to Edinburgh. Once in Edinburgh I met up with a friend for lunch and then spent the afternoon doing research, while Andy slowly wandered back to our hotel. We had previously spent time in Edinburgh in 1991, so had already seen the castle and the Royal Mile, so didn't revisit them this time.</div>
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Next day we drove over the Scottish Highlands, because we find the landscape so incredible. We went north from Perth through Glen Shee with the mountains (hills?) of the Cairngorms surrounding us.</div>
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Lunch was at Ballater, not far from Balmoral Castle.</div>
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After lunch we continued through the Highlands, heading up to the coast of the Moray Firth.</div>
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Then we continued up to Findhorn Bay, where Andy had been years ago on business. When he was there it was the middle of winter, and one day they went out to lunch and then looked at the view across the Moray Firth, where the air was so clear he could see the snow covered mountains on the other side of the Firth. We couldn't find the spot that had been his vantage point, and being a warm summer's day the air was hazy. We could still see across to the other side, but the mountains didn't feel close enough to touch this time. Very disappointing for him.</div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">We spent the night in Nairn (which is east along the coast of the Firth), at a lovely hotel called Invernairne. From there we walked along to coast to the town centre to have dinner. We did get some spectacular sunset views of the Firth during that walk.</span></div>
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jennyalogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12026183619148478639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778371690235006194.post-3944580364944255382015-06-20T20:29:00.000-07:002015-06-21T20:14:32.791-07:00Bamburgh and Berwick<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Next day we visited Bamburgh Castle. I was very keen to see it as I had been reading about its history during the Siege of Durham in 1006. Unfortunately, what I saw contained no visible remnant of that era, and nothing that proclaimed its antiquity. William Armstrong, who had built Cragside (<a href="http://jennyjtravel.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/cragside-house-and-gardens.html">see earlier blog post</a>) had "restored" it and turned it into a Victorian pastiche. I was very disappointed, though the Northumbrian coast was spectacular. We also happened to be there while a bunch of madmen were visiting. They were taking part in a rally from Edinburgh to Rome, which they had to do in a car they had bought for </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">£500 or less. They were all dressed up - there was spiderman, some cowboys, a man carrying a large stuffed sheep and other superheroes. I don't remember if there was a Dick Darstardly and Muttley, but there should have been!</span><br />
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After that the next stop was Berwick-upon-Tweed, located at the mouth of the Tweed River. We walked all the way around the town walls/ramparts.</div>
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We found a wonderful place to stay that night, Marshall Mount, located only a mile or so from the Scottish border.</div>
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jennyalogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12026183619148478639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778371690235006194.post-30186883120262796852015-05-28T19:10:00.001-07:002015-05-28T19:10:15.033-07:00Cragside House and Gardens<div class="MsoNormal">
Cragside was a bizarre but very interesting estate near
Rothbury in Northumberland. The house, built according to the principals of the
Arts and Crafts movement, was the first in the world to be lit by hydro-electricity. That power also drives a dishwasher, a rotisserie
and hydraulic equipment in the Kitchen as well as a vacuum cleaner and a washing
machine. The hydro-electric system was
installed in 1868 and from 1869 to 1884 the original modest house was
transformed into the confection that we see now.</div>
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It was the home of William Armstrong, 1<sup>st</sup> Baron
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We had a wonderful day (though we could easily have spent
longer) at Beamish Open Air Museum. It
is a huge site with several areas reflecting life in County Durham at different
periods of time. Everything is
authentic, having been relocated from its original position to the site.</div>
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There are historic busses and trams that take you around
between the different areas. The first
area we visited was the Pit Village, reflecting life in the early 1900s. As Andy's ancestors had been working in the
coal mines in Co. Durham at this period that was of particular interest to
us. They have colliery house, a school,
Methodist Chapel (at one period the Joyce family did attend the Methodist
Chapel) and pit pony stables.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back entrances to the cottages, which was the main way used<br />for day-to-day.</td></tr>
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Nearby (as you'd expect) there was the Colliery. We did go down the drift mine, but I think I
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Next on the agenda was a visit to Whitby Abbey. An abandoned ruin since the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it stands high over Whitby. Its ruined shell provided Bram Stoker with some of the inspiration for<span> </span><i>Dracula</i>. We wandered around on a beautiful day with audio guides telling us the history of the site since its original founding in Anglo Saxon times, through to its shelling by a German dreadnought in World War I. As I said, it was a beautiful day, but you could imagine how dramatic it would look against a brooding stormy sky. I could also imagine the awe its size would have invoked in a medieval pilgrim.</div>
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Once down the bottom there are dozens of shops selling Whitby Jet jewellery. It's fossilised wood that is so black it has given rise to the expressions "as black as jet" and "jet-black". We went into a workshop and saw how it was fashioned, and needless to say, I had to buy myself a set of jet earrings.</div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">We then crossed the swing bridge over the Esk river. On the other side were the fish and chip shops, the amusement arcades snd the shops selling "rock" that are such a definitive part of the British seaside experience and lots of places trying to cash in on the Dracula connection. Not surprisingly for a fishing port, it was full of seagulls, but they are the biggest seagulls I have ever seen - far bigger than those that steal our chips on an Australian beach!</span></div>
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After leaving Ripon we set off across the North Yorks Moors. Its very remote and bleak and incredibly beautiful. Sheep wander freely here - there are no fences. I do wonder how they manage to herd them up when it's time to send them to market. <br />
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Over the years I have heard several people rave about Robin Hood's Bay, a fishing village on the Yorkshire coast just south of Whitby. When the man in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park office also recommended that we visit there it seemed the natural thing to do.</div>
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It is uncertain why the place is called Robin Hood's Bay. There is no evidence that Robin of Sherwood was ever anywhere near the village. What is certain is that it is a location for fishermen, smugglers, and people looking for dinosaur relicts.<br />
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We arrived at Robin Hood's bay and decided that it was a suitable time to find our accomodation for the night. We ended up in a B&B a few streets back from the ancient road that led down the hill to the bay. The B&B was very comfortable, and we were right up in the attics, so there were issues with head height for one of us (hint: it wasn't me!).</div>
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We then set off to walk down the hill to the Bay. It reminded me of the time we visited <a href="http://www.devon-online.com/towns/clovelly/Welcome.asp">Clovelly </a>in North Devon, though that was perhaps a bit more picturesque as the houses were all white-washed and the "streets" weren't wide enough for cars, only donkeys.<br />
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When we got to the bottom we had a drink overlooking the sea, and then a large group of people arrived to had just finished doing the Coast to Coast walk - Robin Hood's Bay is the end point of the walk. </div>
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We then went to look for the fish and chips place that had been recommended to us by the man in the North Yorks Moors National Parks office. It was difficult to find, as it was down a side alley. We went in and Andy ordered fish and chips. Of course, as many of you will know, I don't eat fish. So I could see a chicken burger on the menu, and asked for that. "We don't have any". I then asked for something else from the menu that wasn't fish (I can't remember what at this stage). "We don't have any". So I asked if there was anything that wasn't fish or seafood. The man thought about it for a while then answered in a surly manner "Chips". So that was the extent of my dinner that night - chips. Both the fish and the chips had been cooked in beef dripping. I know a number of people consider that a great treat, but it quickly became a bit rich and overpowering to Andy and me, not being used to it. But we had found a lovely spot overlooking the beach to eat our dinner, and watch the people out on the beach looking for jet or fossils.<br />
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Ripon wasn't a planned stop, it was somewhere we found accommodation through Trip Advisor. We were staying in the Ripon Spa Hotel. Its glory days had obviously passed - it was a relic of a different time, when holidays meant sitting in the lounge of your hotel, or promenading, or taking the waters at the local Spa. It rather reminded me of the Hydro Majestic Hotel, which people who are familiar with the Blue Mountains west of Sydney will know. It was actually a bit of fun staying in such an anachronism. The staff were very friendly and accommodating.</div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">The first thing they suggested was that after dinner we walk into the Market Place to see the Ripon Hornblower. Daniel Defoe described this market place as 'The finest and most beautiful square that is to be seen of its kind in England'. Well, I think that is a bit of an exaggeration, but it was nice. In the middle of this square is an obelisk (they call it the market cross) and every night since 886 (without a SINGLE night having been missed in those 1128 years) the horn is blown at each of the four corners of this market cross at exactly 9pm. At the end of the ceremony I was one of those given a lucky wooden penny. More information about this ritual can be found </span><a href="http://the-ripon-hornblower.webs.com/" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">here</a><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alice in Wonderland carvings in the park</td></tr>
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Next morning we decided to do some sightseeing before leaving Ripon. I wanted to see the workhouse museum, but as it didn't open until 11am, we went to the Cathedral first.</div>
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The Cathedral is quite interesting. It has a Saxon crypt dating from 672, and a misericord in the choir carved with a griffin chasing a rabbit down a hole, thought to have been inspired by Lewis Carroll, whose father was a canon here.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Misericord with griffin chasing a rabbit</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The screen, with figures of significance in the cathedal's<br />history<span style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> </span></td></tr>
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Then it was time to visit the Workhouse museum. It is housed in the old Ripon workhouse, which dates from 1855 (though the date on the building was 1854, which is when construction started). It was certainly interesting, but when I came out the woman in the shop said 'wasn't it sad'. I can't say I found it sad, as I have known about the workhouses for such a long time that it was no surprise, and any sadness I might have once felt has now just become acceptance of it as part of our history. But is was very interesting to see the sizes of the beds, and to see the rations (well, plastic models of them) laid out, which is easier for me to absorb than just reading that inmates got so much porridge, and so much bread, etc etc.</div>
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