The Royal Scotsman

5 July 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage Reading Time:  7 minutes

Dining car © geograph.org.uk - Thomas Nugent/cc-by-sa-2.0

Dining car © geograph.org.uk – Thomas Nugent/cc-by-sa-2.0

The Belmond Royal Scotsman is a Scottish overnight luxury train, started in 1985 by GS&WR (Great Scottish and Western Railway Co.), and run since 2005 by Belmond Ltd. Its itineraries include 2-, 3-, 4-, 5- or 7-night journeys around the Scottish Highlands, visiting castles, distilleries and historic sites. Once each year, it also makes a 7-night journey around the whole of Great Britain.   read more…

Great Windmill Street in London

27 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, London Reading Time:  8 minutes

© flickr.com - Pedro Szekely/cc-by-sa-2.0

© flickr.com – Pedro Szekely/cc-by-sa-2.0

Great Windmill Street is a thoroughfare running north–south in Soho, London, crossed by Shaftesbury Avenue. The street has had a long association with music and entertainment, most notably the Windmill Theatre, and is now home to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum and the Trocadero shopping centre.   read more…

The Cavern Club in Liverpool

16 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

The Cavern of the Cavern Club © Hens Zimmerman/cc-by-3.0

The Cavern of the Cavern Club © Hens Zimmerman/cc-by-3.0

The Cavern Club is a music venue on Mathew Street, Liverpool, England. The Cavern Club opened on 16 January 1957 as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The club became closely associated with Merseybeat and regularly played host to the Beatles in their early years.   read more…

St Katharine Docks in London

10 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, London Reading Time:  11 minutes

Ivory House © geograph.org.uk - Peter Trimming/cc-by-sa-2.0

Ivory House © geograph.org.uk – Peter Trimming/cc-by-sa-2.0

St Katharine Docks is a former dock in the St Katherine and Wapping ward of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies in the East End on the north bank of the River Thames, immediately downstream of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. From 1828 to 1968, it was one of the commercial docks that made up the Port of London. It is in the redevelopment zone known as the London Docklands and is now a popular housing and leisure complex.   read more…

International Slavery Museum in Liverpool

6 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  5 minutes

Merseyside Maritime Museum © Rept0n1x/cc-by-sa-3.0

Merseyside Maritime Museum © Rept0n1x/cc-by-sa-3.0

The International Slavery Museum is a museum located in Liverpool, UK, that focuses on the history and legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. The museum, which forms part of the Merseyside Maritime Museum, consists of three main galleries which focus on the lives of people in West Africa, their eventual enslavement, and their continued fight for freedom. Additionally the museum discusses slavery in the modern day as well as topics on racism and discrimination.   read more…

Portmeirion in Wales

3 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Hotels Reading Time:  15 minutes

Piazza © flickr.com - Mike McBey/cc-by-2.0

Piazza © flickr.com – Mike McBey/cc-by-2.0

Portmeirion is a folly tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales. It lies on the estuary of the River Dwyryd in the community of Penrhyndeudraeth, 2 miles (3.2 km) from Porthmadog and 1 mile (1.6 km) from Minffordd railway station. Portmeirion was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975 in the Baroque style and is now owned by a charitable trust. It has served as the location for numerous films and television shows, most famously as “the Village” in the 1960s television show The Prisoner.   read more…

Croft Castle in Herefordshire

25 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Museums, Exhibitions, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  6 minutes

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© Tabbipix/cc-by-sa-3.0

Croft Castle is a country house in the village of Croft, Herefordshire, England. Owned by the Croft family since 1085, the castle and estate passed out of their hands in the 18th century, before being repurchased by the family in 1923. In 1957 it was bequeathed to the National Trust. The castle is a Grade I listed building, and the estate is separately listed as Grade II*. The adjacent Church of St Michael is listed Grade I.   read more…

Inveraray in Scotland

12 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Main street © Holger Uwe Schmitt/cc-by-sa-4.0

Main street © Holger Uwe Schmitt/cc-by-sa-4.0

Inveraray (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Aora, meaning “mouth of the Aray“) is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Located on the western shore of Loch Fyne, near its head, Inveraray is a former royal burgh and known affectionately as “The Capital of Argyll.” It is the traditional county town of Argyll, and the ancestral seat to the Duke of Argyll.   read more…

Dunrobin Castle in the Scottish Highlands

28 March 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Architecture, Museums, Exhibitions, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  8 minutes

Dunrobin Castle and Gardens © geograph.org.uk - Andrew Tryon/cc-by-sa-2.0

Dunrobin Castle and Gardens © geograph.org.uk – Andrew Tryon/cc-by-sa-2.0

Dunrobin Castle (mostly 1835–1845 — present) is a stately home in Sutherland, in the Highland area of Scotland, as well as the family seat of the Earl of Sutherland, Chief of the Clan Sutherland. It is located one mile (1.5 kilometres) north of Golspie and approximately five miles (eight kilometres) south of Brora, overlooking the Dornoch Firth.   read more…

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