Posts in Tag: Roman Britain
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Bath – Britain’s Georgian Masterpiece
In the autumn of 2022 Alison and I decided to finally visit the English city of Bath, a place I had on my destination wish list for many decades. In this post I’ll describe the many reasons why you shouldn’t wait so long to visit this UNESCO World Heritage Site. In a previous post I […]
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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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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 […]