A Couple days in Mancuniun

June 5, 2018

I’ve been to Manchester 3 times in the past year so I didn’t do too much exploring. I walked past the City Hall which is one of the best ones ever. Glasgow & Belfast are right up there but I think Manchester takes the prize. My mate Carlos met me after work. Whilst waiting I […]

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Wrapping up Cambridge

June 4, 2018

Lots of museums, fine art, grand parks, an overall lovely place.  Here are some leftover bits A founder of modern geology, Sedgwick was opposed to his friend Darwin’s concept of evolution. Deinotherium.  Odd placement of tusks from lower jaw This Irish Elk id pretty good but I think the one in the Scottish National Museum […]

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University of Cambridge, St. John’s College & Jesus Walking

June 3, 2018

I’m always saying to look up.  When I spotted a group straining their necks looking up at one of the architecturally enhanced buildings it took a second to realize the attraction. Apparently a pair of Paragon Falcons had nested and had produced at least one young. As I turned away I noticed either Mom or […]

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Cambridge Botanic Garden & The Fitzwilliam

June 2, 2018

The weather looked to be better in the morning than in the afternoon so the day began in the Botanic garden and then moved to a museum because it never rains in a museum. This apple tree is one of the few remaining direct descendants of the apple tree one I. Newton was sitting under […]

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Museum of Classical Archaeology

June 2, 2018

The museum is one of the few surviving collections of plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in the world. Housed in the hard to pinpoint Sidgwick site on the campus, the collection consists of several hundred casts, including casts of some of the most famous surviving ancient Greek and Roman sculptures.   The […]

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Welcome to Cambridge

June 1, 2018

A nice train ride from Great Yarmouth through some beautiful countryside brought me to Cambridge, a city on the River Cam in eastern England, home to the prestigious University of Cambridge, dating to 1209. University colleges include King’s, famed for its choir and towering Gothic chapel, as well as Trinity, founded by Henry VIII, and St […]

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Caister-on-Sea

May 30, 2018

I’ve done well with the locations and often views from the guest houses, B&B’s and inns I’ve stayed at on this wander and this was no exception.  When I looked out my window this morning I knew it would be a long & good walking day. This is part of the beachfront that runs from […]

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Lowestoft

May 30, 2018

When a Manc pal found out I was in Great Yarmouth he asked if I had fallen asleep on the train. Why would I go there?  Well not so much to see GY although it turned out to be much better and interesting than I had hoped, but I wanted to go to the most […]

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Great Yarmouth

May 30, 2018

On the mouth of the River Yare is the beachfront and former resort town of Great Yarmouth that dates to before the Conqueror. School break so lots of kids sat the amusement parks and prior to my arrival a few warmer than average days that must have kept the rubble beach hopping The Gable’s End […]

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St. Augustine and Thomas Becket

May 29, 2018

One more place I wanted to see before leaving Canterbury.  St Augustine founded the Catholic Church in England in 597, so a bit of history to ponder.  I’ll let you look up particulars but we can see that he was successful. Sure the Abby is a pile now, but it is a 1400 year old […]

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