Blogs from Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 17

We woke up and left Haworth on a coach headed for Ironbridge. Ironbridge is a preserved Victorian town just outside of Stratford. It's one of those living history places where they have actors who play to shopkeepers and townspeople and you wander around and learn about the time period and hopefully buy overpriced period reproductions. Normally, I find this stuff kind of hokey, but I enjoyed Ironbridge a lot. Maybe that's just because I'm in a good mood. Anyway, at the bank you could exchange your modern English money for Victorian style money: 12 pence to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound, a pound and a shilling to a guinea, etc. (Guess where JK Rowling got her inspiration for the wizarding money system.) I ended up buying some postcards at the printer's shop, mostly ... read more

It's Valentines weekend and Kevin and I decide to head away for the weekend. After many ideas from others we decide to head to Warwickshire near Birmingham. We set off straight after I finish work to our hotel on Friday night with directions from mapquest online although mapquest was a little wrong and a journey that should have taken 45mins, took around an hour and a half due to us getting lost! Once we arrived and found the car park the hotel was worth it. It's a gorgeous hotel set on a 19 acre plot of land, with restaurant, bar, full inside swimming pool, spa pools, sauna, gym, beauty therapy clinic and even room service (Which Kevin and I discovered on the first night). Saturday we head into Warwick to discover the Warwick castle. There is ... read more

Fellow literature students, I made it!! I saw the actual place where the baird was born and the town he lived in. It was brilliant still preserved as really old. I saw the actual room that Shakespeare was born in preserved like it was then and his house, the school he went to his two daughter's houses and the site where he built his house after he returned from London. Unfortunately the owner got sick of everyone coming to look at Shakespeare's house and tore it down! What an idiot! It was a gorgeous town with the river Avon through it, theatres and the royal SHakespeare company and statues of Shakespeare and cafe called as you like it and a little market very cool. it was a flying visit but I love it. Would love to ... read more

First Blog Entry. Well since I resigned from Jaguar at the end of September 2006 I have been wondering where I found the time to work at all. This journal entry should sum up the last few months before I go into hibernation for the winter and look to plan another epic journey around the world in the new year. If I get chance, I will attempt to upload some of my photographs from my previous 2 year trip (1998 - 2000) as have now got a colour scanner to archive the boxes of photographs I accumulated the last time. I will also attempt to upload a travel map of some of the places I have been. I spent 2 weeks visiting my brother in Canada, 9 days updating my Kitchen in Nuneaton, 1 month travelling ... read more

The bus back to Hailsham from Brighton was pleasant despite the horrible weather. We caught one along the coast to Eastbourne for lunch and then a second, which luckily dropped us only a few houses from the Sands' place so there was no chance of us getting lost, phew. Just spent the evening catching up and relaxing though there was a bit of drama. All the boys headed off to rugby training and luckily Jane and David had gone down to watch and meet friends. Only minutes after they had arrived Chris came running in from the field dripping in blood. He had collided with the side of another player's head and had lost three of his teeth. They rushed him to emergency dental and then to the hospital in Brighton. At least one of his ... read more