Touring the UK

Well - Internet sites are few and far between, especially in the places we've being staying in - so this is a catch up of our trip in the UK

Mon 16th - picked up the hire car - pretty flashy, a near new Toyota Avensis. Headed off to Aldergavenny in Wales, sightseeing on the way. Nice little place, bought 7 DVD's off T, a series called Sharpe, couldn't pronounce his name in Welsh, hence Mr T. We were pretty knackered after the weekend in Plymouth, and we both slept for 12 hours! We asked around if anybody knew where Llanndewi Breffi (I'm the only gay in the village you know) and where told to head north, which we did.





Tue 17th - Early start, off to Chester via Hereford, Leominster, Ludlow & Shrewsbury, getting to Chester around 5, back in the UK. Once we hit town, the traffic was so bad, it was a car park, still don't know why... it took nearly an hour to travel 2 Km's into town, so when we hit the roundabout, we turned around and headed for Ellesmere Port, which was full due to conferences and we were told to try the local golf club, it turned out to be pretty flash, but bloody expensive!



Golf Club, used to be a Mansion for some rich person...

Wed 18th - Finally found out where Llanndewi Breffi was, and headed south. Stopped at what we thought was the Pub where the series was filmed (Little Britain), only to be told that the actual Pub was in Buckingham Shire - Bugger! Anyway, had lunch and a long conversation with the Landlady. We then headed off to the Yorkshire Dales well - absolutely stunning! The scenery is unbelievable, the dry stone walls that divided the fields, the mountains, the green fields and the different livestock, fantastic, overnighted at Skipton.





Thu 19th - On the way to our overnight stop at Leyburn, we stopped at Askrigg and checked out the backdrops for the series of All Creatures Great and Small, Siegfried’s house and the Drovers Arms etc.



Siegfrieds House, All Creachers Great & Small


Also visited the RAF museum as Cosford - pretty impressive....



Me-613B - First Jet Fighter WW2

Fri 20th - Headed of to Thirsk to see the Herriot Museum (All Creatures Great and Small fame) where all the inside sets have been donated from the BBC and recreated - top stuff.



Mrs Pumphery & Tricky Woo

At Newcastle, we went to the Catherine Cookson Museum at South Shields, went through the Tyne tunnel, toured Newcastle and headed of to Haltwhistle after visiting Hadrian’s Wall - now in Scotland. Visited the residence of Queen Mary of Scots.



I Lived Here - MQoS

Sat 21st - Arrived early in Edinburgh, drove around site seeing and spent some hours at the Edinburgh Castle - worth seeing, best castle so far (ABC!) Took Brenda on a mini pub crawl that night.



Sun 22nd - Packed our bags and headed to the airport - the security was very strict to the point of being ridiculous, we could only carry one bag to the cabin and no liquids (including water), so we had to repack our suitcases, tranfer our booze into plastic bottles and post a very expensive bottle of perfume (Brend'a - not mine!!!) back to the UK. One young girl had been to Scotland to buy her wedding dresses and accessories and had about 5 shopping bags and had to squeeze all of the expensive clothing into her tiny suitcase..... Finally arrived in Dublin, love it - and we were blessed with great weather. Our hotel is right in the middle of the Temple Bar, a square Km of hotels, bars and restaurants - so many pubs and so little time.....