Posts in Tag: England
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Reading – Definitely Worth a Visit
Reading is usually not even close to the top 10 cities to visit in the United Kingdom when most tourist’s prepare their itinerary for this great country. It certainly wasn’t on mine as Alison and I prepared to spend a few days in Bath, a city that is definitely on the top 10 list. We […]
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London By Boat to Greenwich & Back
I’ve been to London many times, but until recently I had never experienced London by boat which was a big mistake. Here’s why taking a trip down the Thames to Greenwich is a great way to spend a different kind of day in London. The London transportation system is among the most extensive in the […]
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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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Tewkesbury Fair – Re-Enacting a Medieval Battle
This is my seventh post on a recent trip to Great Britain with Canadian military history experts Liberation Tours on a tour titled Medieval Britain: Castles, Cannons & Crowns. One of the main reasons Alison and I signed up for this trip was the prospect of going to the famous Tewkesbury Medieval Festival, the largest of […]
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Warwick Castle- 1,000 Years of British History
This is my fifth post from a recent tour of Britain with Canadian military travel specialists Liberation Tours. It’s titled Medieval Britain: Castles, Cannons and Crowns and will take us from London to Edinburgh in just over two weeks, stopping at some one the best known sights in the country and a few lesser known ones […]
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Salisbury Cathedral – A Most Beautiful Church
While I am not a religious person, I do greatly appreciate the beautiful art and architecture that religion can inspire, none more so than the awesome Gothic cathedrals of western Europe. These wonders in stone often took hundreds of years to complete; Cologne took 600 years. As architectural tastes changed over the centuries, the results […]
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Stonehenge with Francis Pryor
This is my third post on a recently completed trip to Britain with Canadian military history specialists, Liberation Tours. Titled Medieval Britain: Castles, Cannons and Crowns, the tour took us from London to Edinburgh with stops at an incredible variety of well known and lesser visited sites dating from 2500 B.C.E. to the Battle of […]
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Buckingham Palace – Visiting the Queen?
The first time I saw Buckingham Palace I was thirteen and very disappointed. Having been raised on a steady diet of Walt Disney imaginings, I expected a palace to look like this. Having matured (well at least aged), I’ve come to realize that real life palaces have their limitations, but also their strengths – for […]
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Harry Potter Studio Tour – Make Sure to Take It in London
It’s a brisk morning in February and my daughter Lenore and I are headed out from central London to the Harry Potter Studio Tour in Watford Junction about twenty miles away. Even though she is an accomplished world traveler she has never been to London before and the absolute must see attraction on her list […]