Blog Posts in September 2010
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St. Andrews and the Highlands
posted September 30, 2010 by Holly Hayes
Greetings from Inverness Scottish Highlands It beautiful here we've been having a good time Our journey didn't start off so well though! Yesterday from moment we woke up Edinburgh until into evening it poured down rain And I mean poured! Th
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Melrose Abbey and Rosslyn Chapel
posted September 28, 2010 by Holly Hayes
Sunday morning Melrose we enjoyed a full Scottish breakfast which includes all usual suspects full English ham sausage eggs tomato mushrooms plus a potato scone haggis black pudding The potato scone a delicious soft pancake-type triangle ma
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At Home in Edinburgh
posted September 28, 2010 by Holly Hayes
We arrived Edinburgh around 1:30pm on Sunday which earlier than expected it great have extra time wander around at our leisure The sun shining brightly it actually warm all afternoon which a pretty nice welcome We're quite happy with our ho
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Durham, Jarrow, Lindisfarne and Scottish Abbeys
posted September 27, 2010 by Holly Hayes
OK now that I have some free time rainy Edinburgh I'll share fun we had on Saturday a really busy day during which we visited no less than six great sights Here's route:
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Beverley to Durham with Some Yorkshire Gems
posted September 24, 2010 by Holly Hayes
Cathedrals cities are great but our very favorite type photography project Britain a good village church We got check out a couple these after leaving Beverley one especially fantastic The first one above village Bainton It wasn't all that
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A Night in Beverley, Yorkshire
posted September 23, 2010 by Holly Hayes
Greetings from Yorkshire town Beverley where we are staying one night order see Beverley Minster a fine Gothic cathedral The town itself relaxed quite attractive as well We seem be virtually only tourists here which pretty great! The weathe
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Two of England's Best Cathedrals: Norwich and Lincoln
posted September 23, 2010 by Holly Hayes
Yesterday morning Cambridge we got up at 6am David made another great cooked breakfast we got on road by 7am The 15-hour drive fairly good but there a lot more traffic than we expected Our first stop Norwich What we saw town wasn't very spe
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Good Night from Lincoln
posted September 22, 2010 by Holly Hayes
View Lincoln Cathedral from our hotel window Today a really busy but wonderful day The weather warm beautiful drive went smoothly two cathedrals we visited were fantastic - between two us we took 1350 photos! Whoa It about 10pm now unfortun
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Canterbury to Cambridge
posted September 21, 2010 by Holly Hayes
Yesterday morning we went inside Canterbury Cathedral as soon as it opened at 9am started our visit crypt which closed last time we visited It biggest crypt I've ever seen stretching underneath almost whole length cathedral It's also oldest
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Canterbury Sneaky Beak
posted September 20, 2010 by Holly Hayes
Canterbury Cathedral at dusk last night Night view after lights came on Pretty golden light early this morning - very glad I got up time for this because sun only lasted about five minutes sun barely showed up again rest day! Canterbury Cat