Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Today I knocked a visit to the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) off my to-do list. While I have been in the MERL building before I have never actually been in the museum itself having only previously had a tour of the house that abuts it. The entrance to the museum itself is really …
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When browsing the events page of the RHS website recently (as you do) I noticed that they have started to do ‘behind-the-scenes’ tours of the Hilltop building so I booked us up for the earliest date we could all do. Hilltop at RHS Wisley opened in 2019 after a £35 million pound investment in the …
This was no ordinary National Trust property. There was no stately home with a walled garden and acres of parkland surrounding it. Instead, there were 11 cramped houses home to 60 people in the centre of Birmingham. These houses are now owned by the National Trust which had saved them in the early 2000’s. Given …
With just a morning left in Madrid, we decided to check out one of the museums here. Madrid is famous for its triangle of art museums, including the Prado but we knew that what that holds is not really for us. Therefore, we decided to visit the Reina Sofia, the museum of contemporary art, particularly …
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Having spent yesterday looking at the architecture of Madrid, today was spent in its parks. Before we could step out of the hotel though we had to prepare ourselves for the “Severe Weather” that was being predicted by our weather app. This included the slightly worrying “Possible threat to life or property”. Turned out that …
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Today we did as we always do when visiting a new city – we pounded the streets walking between sights. We meandered from the hotel to the large square, Plaza Mayor. We’d eaten there last night, at one of the many tapas bars that line the edge but today we could see it in all …
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I have written before about how I love to be places but enjoy less the actual act of getting there. Today was a case in point. It took us over eight hours from leaving our house to arriving at the hotel in Madrid. Most of this time was us sat around twiddling our thumbs. Travel …
I have promised myself that this year I will spend one day a month away from the house doing “something interesting”. To date that has included both a trip to the Science Museum and the British Museum in London. This month I was back in London for a trip to the lesser known Cartoon Museum. …
In this months episode of ‘Why don’t you just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead‘ I went to the Science Museum and specifically to visit a temporary exhibition called Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination. General Exhibits Before heading to the exhibition I had a …
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I was looking through the blog posts of a friend of mine when I saw one called “25 Things (Slight Return)“. This was based upon one of these annoying social media trends where you have to complete a list and then get x people to do the same. This one was to list out 25 …