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Felbrigg Hall and gardens

Posted on August 14, 2012February 24, 2017 by Ian C.

We’ve got another lucky weather day, which we spent visiting Felbrigg Hall and it’s beautiful gardens, with Margaret’s Mum and Kate & Chris … Felbrigg Hall interior was very impressive with many ostentatious decorations:

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Outdoors, the Walled Garden was beautiful too!

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Housesteads

Posted on August 12, 2012February 24, 2017 by Ian C.

Today we ventured up to Hadrian’s Wall at Housesteads, where impressive remains of a near 2000 year old Roman fort give a good idea of the construction that occurred long ago; and easy access to Hadrian’s Wall …

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Cullercoats and Whitley Bay

Posted on August 11, 2012February 24, 2017 by Ian C.

A little trip up the coast in tribute to Dire Straits. We had Fish & Chips lunch in Cullercoats, then visited what is left of the Spanish City; it’s long gone now (there wasn’t much remaining when we lived in Newcastle in the 1990s) but the city has eventually recognized history and saved the domed building (above) and plans to create more pedestrian areas between the building and the beach …

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Also at Spanish City was a curious Mars exhibit; a basically static image projected on the wall, with some tiny movements indicating that long abandoned Mars explorer vehicles are still attempting to complete their exploration tasks ands transmit data to perhaps a long dead Earth. Luckily, the exhibit was free!

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