Whilst on our way to Scarborough we decided visit some Historic sites and found 2 great historic things to do in North Yorkshire near Helmsley. The Rievaulx Abbey and The Helmsley Castle ,both looked after by English Heritage or its new name Historic England. The distance between the 2 is only about a 5 minute…
On our travels we are always on the look out for things to do while we travel up and down England and Scotland. We recently wanted to know what to do in Ashby and we found it was famous for its Castle. We decided to visit The Ashby De La zouch Castle and we were…
Aspley House London, was the residential home to the Duke of Wellington known as Arthur Wellesley ( Which I didn’t Know) I also didn’t know he was Irish, yes born in Dublin. He is famous for saying ” if a man is born in a stable does this make him a horse ?” this was…
Dancing in Kaktus Albir We love to dance and on our travels we are always on the look out for places that we can ballroom, Jive or generally dance. When we were in Alicante just recently we found they had dancing in Kaktus Albir hotel which is located in the area of Albir close to…
York cold war bunker !!! Situated a Mile from the City center, is the York cold War Bunker, surrounded by a suburb of houses the setting feels sort of strange as you are greeted by a huge green building, hiding below the steel structures in the ground are the operations rooms and living quarters. It…
Whilst in Germany, we managed to visit the Berlin wall, to be honest we didn’t know to much about it (shame on us). We learn’t as we went along. We walked the route of the Berlin wall, where they have managed to keep some parts of the wall intact and they have embedded a line…
Villa Joyosa
Villa Joyosa, far from the madding crowd We just finished a great trip to Villa Joyosa in the Costa Blanca, our mains reason for being in the area was because, we went to fix up the house in Finistrat and we where able to go to the beach at Villa Joyosa everyday. Before going…
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