Sleeping with Ghosts: A Stay at Lumley Castle, County Durham’s 600-Year-Old Fortress
It started, as the best adventures often do, with a whim. I was meandering through the North East, a gap…
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Biddulph Grange Gardens, Staffordshire: A World of Discovery
A gorgeous destination and setting with a world of discovery, through the grade 1 listed Victorian gardens in Staffordshire, there’s…
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Heugh Battery: The Only WWI Battlefield in Britain
On 16 December 1914, during the first few months of World War One, the North East of England was bombarded…
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A Day at The Workhouse: Stepping into the Shadows of Southwell’s Past
There are places you visit, and there are places that visit you, lingering in your thoughts long after you’ve left….
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Tyne to Tees Walk: Hartlepool Headland to The Tees
It was the last leg today of this wonderful walk. I had walked, as you have seen in previous posts,…
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Tyne To Tees Walk: Easington Colliery to Beyond Crimdon
It was day three of my walk from the River Tyne to the River Tees. A walk today starting with…
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Tyne To Tees Walk: From Nose’s Point to Easington Colliery
New sights and new things to discover. After a lunch pause at the cafe in Seaham Marina it was time…
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Tyne to Tees Walk: From Sunderland to Seaham
It was time for a new day on this fabulous walk along the coast from the Tyne to the Tees….
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Tyne to Tees Walk: From The Tyne to Roker
It was time to begin… A glorious walk along one of the best stretches you can walk of the British…
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Newstead Abbey – Roving through the gardens in the footsteps of Lord Byron
The gardens and grounds of Newstead Abbey are a pleasure to visit, relaxing and romantic as you might expect when…
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A Stay at Combe Leigh Lodge, Orton, Cumbria
The beautiful, picturesque village of Orton, Cumbria combined with a luxury little cottage to stay in, what more could I…
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A Colourful Walk Through Chinatown London
It was a busy day heading backwards and forwards across London for meetings and networking. You know how it is, those…
