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Against all odds.
Scenically and languidly spread over the slopes of north Tenerife, Puerto De la Cruz is the elder statesman of Tenerife tourism. It’s history of welcoming foreign visitors dates back to the late 19th century, when the cultured settlement was a … Continue reading
The Medieval Tower.
In the later medieval period, Shrewsbury was encircled by a defensive wall with a number of watch towers at intervals. Town Walls Tower is the last surviving of these watch towers and it was given to the National Trust in … Continue reading
Black Country – Living – Museum.
An amazing vist today – The Black Country – Living – Museuem – highly recommended. Edited with BlogPad Pro
A spot of porridge.
HM Prison Shrewsbury was a Category B/C men’s prison in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It closed in March 2013. The former prison site, on Howard Street, adjacent to Shrewsbury railway station, is near the site of the Dana Gaol, a medieval prison. … Continue reading
The Ridgeway – 87 miles – Overton Hill to Ivinghoe Beacon.
The Ridgeway National Trail stretches 87 miles (139km) across five counties, starting at Overton Hill near Avebury in Wiltshire and passing through Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire and ending at Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire. The Ridgeway is often described as ‘the oldest … Continue reading
Norfolk Coastal Path, 46 miles – Hunstanton to Cromer.
Friday 26th September to Monday 29th September: Why is walking in wild and solitary places so satisfying? Partly it is the sheer physical pleasure: sometimes pitting one’s strength against the elements, sometimes relaxing on the springy turf or sand. The … Continue reading
Grimes Graves.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk Grime’s Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex near Brandon in England close to the border between Norfolk and Suffolk. It was worked between circa 3000 BC and circa 1900 BC, although production may have continued well into … Continue reading
Peddars Way, 46 miles – Knettishall to Holme-next-the-sea.
In that country of luminous landscapes and wide horizons where the wind runs in the reeds and the slow rivers flow to our cold sea, a man may still sense and live something of the older England which was uninhabited, … Continue reading
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