The Beamish Open Air Museum is best of interactive living history that England’s North has to offer. We have been to so many museums over the last three or four years. Even before we started full-time travel we have witnessed our fair share of history being put under glass. At […]
This is a long post – but it describes my long awaited trip to the Brontë Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire.
The Roman Army Museum is really cool. It is a Hadrian’s Wall Museum really because that’s what you learn about there. It had a 3D-movie that shows you an image that looks like you are inside the world. The movie was of an Eagle flying over Hadrian’s Wall. The movie […]
I love travelling for so many reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that it gives me an opportunity to not only see history, but to touch it. Coming from Australia, there is quite a limited field of history that is accessible. This is primarily due to the fact that […]
Just so you know, Jorvik Viking Centre is said Yourvik Viking Centre. I like the Jorvik Viking Museum. It was really cool. The first thing I did there was go on the interactive computer screen, where we could pick stuff and pretend to excavate different things from in the dirt. I […]
The Upper Teesdale Social Group Sports Day is held in the field near the Forest-in-Teesdale Methodist Church on the last Saturday in May.
Well it has taken a while but we have finally seen some decent snow in a few places. We had our first decent snow in Pocklington (near York). We were staying at this lovely little cottage on a working organic farm called Low Callis Granary. After a day or two […]
My favourite TV show in England is ‘You’ve Been Framed’. It is a funny show where people get hurt and do funny stuff. It is like ‘Australia’s Funniest Home Videos’. And I like it when people get hit in the willy. The best one I have seen is when a […]
Everything at the Jorvik Viking Festival was good. I did a little digging to find Viking treasures. I watched and played The Viking Game [edit from Mum – The game is called Hnefatafl]. It is a bit like chess, but there are attackers and defenders. But my most favourite thing […]
