Castles and Palaces

We stumbled across an article from a travel website naming the top 10 castles in the world. We’d only been to two on the list  – Neuschwanstein in Germany and Chateau de Chillon in Switzerland. But it got us thinking – what would our top-ten list be? And how many castles have we been to? [...]

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Day 14 – Scarborough to Manchester and In-between

I sadly forgot to type up any notes for our day in Scarborough, and our return drive to Manchester. There’s lots of notes with the pictures, though, and you can view those here.

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Day 13 – Edinburgh to Scarborough and In-between

Another yummy breakfast and delightful conversation with our hostess (or her twin) and then we packed up and headed out, intending to go to Edinburgh Crystal, having seen a nice brochure in the B&B. We drove and we drove, and drove through some horrific sheep stench, but no Edinburgh Crystal to be found. Not even [...]

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Day 2: Manchester, UK

Well, our plans to avoid jet lag failed miserably. We landed safely in Manchester, made it through customs quite quickly, got our luggage, and stepped out of the airport to a beautiful cool cloudless day. We easily got a taxi (and they are the coolest looking cars!) and he took us to our first hotel [...]

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