Blogs from South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 2

What better place to be on Yorkshire Day than Yorkshire? I find myself heading north to south on the M1 and turned off into Barnsley. I think I have been to Barnsley 3 or 4 times in my life before – always for football - but never really looked round the town centre. I think my last visit was possibly in 1989 - a 4 – 0 defeat in the FA Cup. Cup Fever was cancelled for another year. It was Freddy Freestone’s swansong in a Chelsea shirt, albeit he took a few months to make his way home to Swansea. I can distinctly remember a cold, cold Friday night in the early 1980s too. In those days, town centres on away days were a dangerous place and the usual sightseeing was determined by exactly where ... read more

Today was a day of two halves. A house the first half and the garden the second. I have a plan. My plan is to go somewhere every week. My plan includes drawing a circle of about 50 miles from our home. 50 miles takes us about 35 minutes of travel. My plans include finding somewhere different to go to every week or so. So last week we went to Worksop to the lovely house of Mr Straw. Today the sun was beaming down, summer has arrived and I was in the books around the house trying to find something to see and something to do. Two choices came to mind - the first was to go to Abbeydale Hamlet in Sheffield. A bit of industrial history. The other choice Brodsworth Hall an English Heritage house ... read more

early rise and off for a nice breakfast and walk around before collecting the car. After a nice cuppa, I go for a walk to find the Sheffield Memorial statue and Hall. The buildings construction is amazing. I found a dinky pub not far - the Sheffieldman Rock Bar. The names they have for their pub's all have some sort of meaning - and seem quite inviting. The costa coffee is at the edge of the peace garden where i have taken more shots from different angles. What a small but so relaxing place to enjoy and relax. Time to head back and check out - then onto collecting the little Skoda I have booked for my drive to Derbyshire. Had to take a photo of Henderson's factory, the sauce that is better than Worcestershire by ... read more

Day 84 out of 120. We have gone past the half way point. There are less days to go to our next adventure than there are to our last. Have we gone stir crazy? Yes we have. Books have come out, atlas has been consulted, ACSI books perused and camp sites chosen. There are only so many things you can do whilst you count down to getting in Suzy and hitting the road again. We are reading blogs until they come out of our ears. We read about destinations thought of and destinations arrived at. We find places we would like to visit and others were we say to each other " Been there" "Remember that cafe" or just in Judith Chalmers fashion say "Wish we were there". We fall over each other more in our ... read more

It's true what they say about being bitten by the travel bug. Many years have passed since the last entry on this site but in the time since then we've had many amazing trips. Self-drives through Western Canada, Jordan and the Baltic Nations, backpacks on for adventures through Turkey, Sri Lanka and back to India, and many little breaks into Europe. The travel bug even got me working in the industry, with an amazing team in the Leeds office of Austravel. But with the age of 31 rapidly approaching, Amy and I decided to do the full on trip once again, but this time take advantage of the Working Holiday Visa scheme of Australia. So off we go again... this time for a full year - taking in Dubai, Oman and Hong Kong before arriving in ... read more