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Category Archive for 'Favourite Places'

A Wordless Wednesday post

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Rye in Sussex is one of my favourite places. We’ve been there a few times and explored its streets and coastline. It’s got lots of history and some literary connections too. By the end of the 12th century it was described as an ‘Antient Town, worthy of veneration’  and it became one of the Cinque Ports in the 14th [...]

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Favourite Places – Bath

For today’s Favourite Places post I’m featuring Bath. For more Favourite Places see Margot’s blog Joyfully Retired. The last time we have Bath was just over three years ago, when we had a weekend there. There is a lot to see in Bath and we only managed to go to a few places – the main one [...]

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I’ve chosen a few photos taken last July of Edinburgh for today’s Favourite Places post. For more Favourite Places see Margot’s blog Joyfully Retired. I took some of these photos from a tour bus. Our grandchildren insisted we went on the Horrible Histories tour, which was very entertaining – of course the ordinary commentary was available [...]

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On Sundays Margot at Joyfully Retired writes about one of her favourite places. Here’s one of mine – it’s Stratford-upon-Avon.   We went there last August to see Julius Caesar at the Courtyard Theatre. I wrote about that here. We stayed at this hotel   Alveston Manor  in the room on the first floor next to the entrance [...]

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Joy at Joyfully Retired does a weekly feature called Favorite Places and I thought today I’d post some photographs of one of my favourite places: Linlithgow about 20 miles from Edinburgh. The approach to Linlithgow Palace Linlithgow Palace entrance Linlithgow Palace North Range Linlithgow Palace Great Hall Linlithgow Palace view from a window Linlithgow Palace – a [...]

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