Day 3: Site-seeing – a rest day
As one might expect, we slept like logs after the exertions of the night before, and it was nice to get up safe in the knowledge that we wouldn’t have to drag our aches...
Daily Archive: July 5, 2017
Postscript to our lonely Aussie
Apparently it was common to bury those aircrew killed in training or who died of wounds but whose bodies came home in local churchyards. I suppose since so many Aussies came out of Empire...
Day 2: Snorkels would have helped!
We knew this would be a wet day, but the forecast promised that the showers would clear in the afternoon, so we left John and David at Wormald House in an optimistic frame of...
Day 1: Newcastle upon Tyne: reflecting on ruins
We saw quite a lot of the National Rail System today, but it all worked like clockwork and gave us some insights into rail history. The day began in York and ended in the...