After watching Professor Alice Roberts' series Britain's Most Historic Towns and learning about Chester's Roman roots, we were very excited to head there for a short weekend. At this point we hadn't visited Rome yet, so this was Josh's first chance to see the remains of a Roman Amphitheatre! We got gorgeous weather while we [...]
At the time of our visit to Leicester, Josh and I didn't know there was an official King Richard Walking Trail, but luckily we ended up doing most of it ourselves! What we had just found out at the time was that Josh is actually a distant cousin of King Richard III - and they [...]
Leading on from my short weekend itinerary in Newcastle, I'm bringing you another short itinerary... but this time the focus is on Ireland! A city close to everyone's heart, and known for it's legendary St Patrick's Day celebrations, Dublin is a place of fun and revelry. It's also commonly mistaken for a UK city. The [...]
Back in 2018 Josh and I visited Cardiff to see Bullet For My Valentine play in their home city. The gig fell on Remembrance Day, 11th November; but more than that, it fell on the Remembrance Day Centenary. This means we were in Wales' capital 100 years after the end of the War and had [...]
We were in Newcastle because of a gig in the city, but I'd wanted to go for a while as it's one of the only UK major cities we hadn't been to yet (I'm looking at you next, Glasgow & Liverpool). It had also been talked up majorly by my younger sister Tiegan who had [...]
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