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Time to check out of our hotel and head on. First stop was Caerphilly Castle. It was the day of the cheese festival so it was a bit manic! There was the odd spot of rain and the temperature dropped about 10 degrees which was very welcome! We had a quick look around the town […]

Impossible to believe that our Wales holiday began almost 2 weeks ago! Where has the time gone?! Our first stop on the way to Wales was Farleigh Hungerford Castle, an English Heritage property in Somerset. Below is the Lady Tower where Lady Elizabeth Hungerford was imprisoned by her husband and only survived thanks to her […]

What a spectacularly glorious bank holiday weekend and sooooo busy for us! Due to my vertigo, I was unable to drive myself to Manchester as planned for BlogOnX so I dragged my family along too! And I am so glad I did because we had an excellent time. We left home at 8am on Saturday […]

Next we wanted to go to Yarmouth Castle to once again make use of our English Heritage membership. The sat nav was not our friend 🙁 We drove in circles down one way streets until we decided to give up and park in a car park and then wandered around on foot. First we discovered […]

The first stop after arriving on the Isle of Wight was Carisbrooke Castle. This castle appeals to the historian in me 🙂 It it where Charles I was imprisoned after his defeat in the English Civil War and his 14 year old daughter died here. The next major royal to get involved was Princess Beatrice […]