Speedwell Cavern in the Peak District National Park is a wonderful destination for families to have a subterranean adventure in a boat. The temperature remains more or less constant 10c, 52f as caves generally do,…
In the Isle of Purbeck, overlooking a village of the same name, perched on a hilltop, are the ruins of Corfe Castle. It’s an early Norman castle built in the time of William the Conqueror….
The National Justice Museum in Nottingham is where my journey to explore the history of subterranean Nottingham began. I booked a ticket for a networking event including coffee and pastries followed by a tour of…
The circular walk around Sunderland Point, Lancashire, is far more than just another headland walk. It is filled with unique tidal landscapes that affect the way of life here. It’s also much quieter than its…
Kolmanskop is a ghost town in Namibia, inundated by rolling banks of sand, in the middle of a region known as “The forbidden zone”. Within a timeline of 40 years, this town was created, flourished…
We’d been to the Aisled Barn in Littlebourne, Canterbury, Kent, lots of times for summer and Christmas fayres and also art shows, but I’d never really looked around the empty barn to see how it…
The Library of Congress, the National Library of the United States, is situated in the Thomas Jefferson Building on Capitol Hill. I had spent the morning doing a tour of the US Capitol itself so…
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC, is surely one of the most recognisable buildings in the world. It is not just a monument to Democracy but also a place of work where the government’s…
The huge beaches and rolling coastal countryside of Normandy where the D-Day landings started the final chapters of the Second World War in June 1944, are dominated by that history. There are numerous museums, huge…
Nottingham’s Royal Castle has often been known primarily from the stories of the legendary Robin Hood and his merry men, his connections with the castle, King John, and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin Hood and…
Little did I think that one day I would be visiting and writing about a cathedral where I talk about the Sea of Tranquility on the moon as well as seeing the Dark Side from…
I had the opportunity to spend some time in Washington, DC, the capital of the United States. Of course, as part of my time there, I had to visit and walk around the city’s most…
