Our housesit for June was in Worksop, England. Where’s that? It’s in the Midlands, specifically Nottinghamshire, very near to Sherwood Forest. Yes, that Nottingham and Sherwood Forest, of Robin Hood fame. (More on that in a minute.) We had finished up a wonderful month in… Read More »Worksop, Steam, and Robin Hood
On our way from Cornwall to Worksop, we spent two days exploring the Bletchley Park museum and the Museum of Computing that is basically next door. If you saw the TV series, The Bletchley Circle, or the movie The Imitation Game, you would be familiar… Read More »Codebreaking, Computers, and Bletchley Park
Both Mark and I had been to York on previous trips to the UK, but there is so much to see and do that we wanted to return. York is only an hour and a half from Worksop, so it was an easy drive (on… Read More »A Weekend in York (more really old things)
King Arthur and Camelot are a Big Deal Around Here Cornwall is home to many locations that tie in to the Arthurian legend. Possibly the most Arthur-obsessed is Tintagel on the Atlantic coast. Tintagel Castle is said to be the location of Arthur’s conception (with… Read More »Cornwall, Pt 4 – The Legend of King Arthur
Cornwall has been famous for smuggling for centuries. It has everything a smuggler could wish for: miles of coastline, lovely coves and beaches, and a population that tended to enthusiastically participate in avoiding the Tax Man. We had a tremendous time on Secrets of Smuggling… Read More »Cornwall Pt 1 – Bodmin Moor, Smugglers, and Spending the Night in Jail
Wales is a beautiful country with a rich history. It’s also home to several of our favorite series: such as Doctor Who, Torchwood and Sherlock. Doctor Who is still filmed in Cardiff at the BBC Station on Cardiff Bay (we saw the building from the… Read More »Nerding Out in Cardiff
While we were staying in Newport, Wales (https://idealcaretech.com/wonderful-wales/), Mark found a wonderful festival nearby in Merthyr Mawr. Put on by the Street Food Circus, the Forest Feastival was a fantastic day. The feastival runs for 6 weekends in April and May, so we were lucky… Read More »Feasting in the Forest
Cymru Fendigedig Next up, Newport, Wales, and a housesit with the most adorable German Shepherd, Freddi. Newport is in Southern Wales, not far from Cardiff. (Cardiff gets it’s own post, it was so cool.) We happened to be in Newport for King Charles III’s coronation.… Read More »Wonderful Wales
After leaving the Hadrian’s wall area (https://idealcaretech.com/really-old-things-sheep-and-peacocks/) we headed further into the Lake District. Famous for its lakes, forests, and mountains, the Lake District is also associated with William Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter, and John Ruskin. Carlisle – Castle, Cathedral, and the Cursing Stone Though just… Read More »See the Løveli Lakes
After nearly three months in Scotland, we headed south. We had just finished a housesit in Saltcoats, Scotland with two wonderful dogs and had about two weeks before our next sit in Wales. One of the bucket list items for this trip was to walk… Read More »Really Old Things, Sheep, and Peacocks