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Visited East Hoathly Carnival – check out more pictures in the gallery.
Category Archives: Places
Big Pit
Big Pit is a real coal mine, and above ground felt strangely eerie – like an enormous ghost of the industrial age was still present from a time when the site was in full production.
It has stopped producing coal and now allows visitors to be guided around some of the underground tunnels. All of the guides are miners who have at least 5 years experience of working underground, their enthusiasm and passion for mining was almost overwhelming while being most engaging.
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7 new wonders of the world
In planning places to go and see on my worldwide travels this site cropped up, and I had yet more places to visit…
What are your favourites? If you want to vote click here to go to the New 7 Wonders web site – voting ends on the 7th July 2007.
These are the places I voted for:We cannot display this gallery
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
I managed to spend almost the whole day there wandering around the park, gardens and galleries – below are pictures of just a few of the sculptures I liked, including quite a few by Andy Goldsworthy. There was a special exhibition of his, which was just fantastic, in the various gallery spaces – which unfortunatly did not allow cameras inside :-(
The bridges of Newcastle
Spending a few days in the north east, staying with Ros in Sunderland.
Had a good walk around Newcastle and took a few photos of the bridges over the river Tyne.
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Lakeland passes
Douglas (my Mini) got very bored waiting for me to complete the Coast to Coast walk. He insisted on a bit of fun going up and down some of the passes in the Lake District.
I almost have a clear environmental consience as I feel I have saved a few grams of carbon recently by walking for 15 days.
Here are a few pictures, keep a lookout for Douglas… Continue reading