Taking The High Road
Leaving Edinburgh and the St Andrew’s Golf Club, our coach tour set off to the Scottish Highlands. Crossing the Firth of Tay, and via Dundee and Perth, we headed into the highlands and the...
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Auld Reekie and the Royal Mile
The capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh, is still affectionately referred to as Auld Reekie, although it has cleaned up its act since the 17th century. In those days the overcrowding of housing, smoke from...
A Whirlwind Tour in England’s North East
The fourth day of our coach tour of England, Scotland and Wales took us from Sheffield through York and the Northumberland National Park, with a brief stop at Jedburgh in Scotland, before an arrival...
Oxford – The City of Dreaming Spires
The first day of our coach tour took us from London, north to the university city of Oxford, then through the Cotswold Hills to Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon, before stopping overnight in Sheffield. There were about...
London Revisited
Our first visit to London had been back in August 2003, during a heat wave of 38 degrees celsius. We had ridden on the top of a double-decker Hop-On-Hop-Off bus to see many of...
A Coach Tour of England, Scotland and Wales
After a couple of weeks driving independently through parts of England, visiting ancestral locations and various relatives, we looked forward to having all decision-making regarding routes, accommodations and sightseeing made for us on a...
Family Tree Ramblings in London, Sussex and Kent
Having spent a few days investigating my paternal ancestry locations in northern England it was now time to see where a number of my maternal ancestors had originated. Working backwards from my mother who...
Getting back to my roots in Lancashire & Yorkshire
After years of doing family tree research it was finally time to visit those places in England where my ancestors originated, before they migrated to Australia. My father’s parents arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia...
Gibraltar – British Overseas Territory
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located on the southern end of the Iberian peninsula. Though often incorrectly referred to as an island, its land area of 6.7 km2 (2.6 sq mi) is linked via a flat...
