With Melbourne’s lockdown droning on, I decided some form of creativity was needed before my brain gave up the ghost completely.
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Some Very Nice Memories.
Seeing I’m a Melburnian and considered too potentially germ-ridden to be let out in this pandemic, I thought I’d go through my old photos to see what was there, and came up with some very nice memories.
Final Thoughts England 2016
I enjoyed my exploration of the south of England in 2016 enormously, and I thought I’d list a few of my favourite spots, some of which I’d been wanting to check out for years.
Visiting Charles 2016
One of the items I wanted to tick off from my bucket list while in London was the Charles Dickens Museum. I came to Dickens relatively late in life, falling in love with Oliver Twist and going from there.
Eton and Windsor 2016
I knew when I was heading for Windsor that Eton was close by, but I didn’t realise it was just on the other side of this lovely bridge.
Hampton Court Palace
When I visited London in 2011, I ran out of time for everything I wanted to see, one of them being Hampton Court, Henry Vllls main palace. I headed out on Sunday morning to catch the train from Waterloo Station.
Canterbury to London 2016
I caught the train from Canterbury to spend the last few days of my trip in London.
Canterbury Cathedral
I’m not free to go exploring at the moment, so I thought I’d return here to my trip to England in 2016. Having landed in London, I trained it from Cambridge to Bath, to Salisbury and across to Cornwall, back along the coast to lovely Chichester, ending up in Canterbury, before heading back to hit London’s West End.
Canterbury’s Westgate and City Gaol
Just a short walk up from my hotel in Canterbury was the Westgate, the largest surviving medieval gate in England and the city’s only surviving gateway since 1830, as well as historically being the entry point for all visitors coming from London.
Historic Canterbury UK
A flourishing Roman town once stood beneath the streets of modern Canterbury. The town became covered because people used to build on the rubble of previous houses, shops and cellars, and on the rubbish dumped in yards and gardens, raising the level of the modern town.
Planning to the Nth 