Posts in Category: Europe
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Culloden – The Jacobite’s Ugly Ending
This is my fifteenth post on last summer’s inaugural Medieval Britain tour by Canadian military specialists Liberation Tours and it’s the only post in which you are going to see that the weather was typically British. I don’t know what gods they prayed to, but until today the weather has been perfect. Yesterday we were at […]
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Scone Palace – Scottish Royalty Coronation Site
This the fourteenth post reporting on the inaugural Medieval Britain tour by Canadian military specialists Liberation Tours. In the last post we celebrated crossing over to Scotland by stopping for a wee dram at Carter Bar and then moved on the the wonderful ruins of Melrose Abbey. We had a day off in Edinburgh and […]
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery – Outstanding
I was on a recent tour of Great Britain with Canadian military travel specialists Liberation Tours and we had arrived in Scotland after an exceptional and jam packed romp through England. It was time for a break and we had a free day to explore Edinburgh on our own. Most in the group opted for a visit […]
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Melrose Abbey – The Heart of Robert the Bruce
This is post number thirteen from a recent trip to Great Britain with Canadian military tour specialists Liberation Tours. Titled Medieval Britain: Castles, Cannons & Crowns our group has been having a blast travelling to some of the most important historical sites in England including Stonehenge, Salisbury Cathedral, HMS Victory, Warwick Castle, Fountains Abbey and several […]
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Vindolanda – An English Roman Settlement
We continue our tour of Medieval Great Britain with Liberation Tours after visiting the castle of Richard III at Middleham. Next we will veer away from Medieval times and turn the clock back a thousand years. I have always been a keen student of all matters relating to the Roman Empire and the unrivalled dramatis […]
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Middleham Castle – Home of Richard III
This is post # 11 from my recent tour of England and Scotland with Canadian military adventure specialists Liberation Tours. The tour is being led by Phil Craig who is also well known as a thespian, appearing in such movies as The Time Traveler’s Wife and Cinderella Man, among many others. He is also a Shakespearean actor, having played numerous […]
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Fountains Abbey – The Beauty of Ruins
This is my tenth post on a recently completed trip to Great Britain with the Canadian military tour specialists at Liberation Tours. In the last post we were at liberty to tour the ancient city of York by walking the walls, rambling through The Shambles and of course, visiting the famous York Minster Abbey. This morning we […]
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York – England’s Most Interesting City?
This is my ninth post in an ongoing series inspired by a recent visit to Britain with Canadian military travel specialists Liberation Tours, led by noted Canadian actor and historian Phil Craig. The tour, Medieval Britain: Castles, Cannons & Crowns was the inaugural one in what will become an annual event and I hope that my […]
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Battle of Towton – Britain’s Bloodiest Battle
Chances are most people have heard of the Battles of Hastings, Bannockburn, Bosworth Field and Marston Moor, which were all pivotal moments in British history resulting in significant changes to the existing order. However, none of these battles involved as many combatants or resulted in any where near the total numbers of dead and wounded […]