arrow_backSummer 2019
Winding Journey North
Possible Events to tie into
Cricket World Cup 2019 - various locations and dates
Possible Places to Visit
South of England : Places to Visit
Some ideas that need flushing out:
- Tyneford - south coast town that’s not changed.
- 1500 year old boat, Sussex
Portsmouth
- Mary Rose
- HMS Victory (Lord Nelsons ship)
Stonehenge
- David St. Hubbins: I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.
- Ian Faith: I really think you’re just making much too big a thing out of it.
- Derek Smalls: Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea.
- Address : Near Amesbury, Wiltshire, SP4 7DE (Map)
- website
Stanley Spencer’s chapel : Sandham Memorial Chapel
- His wonderful mural, plus the town has lots of his other work.
- About 40 miles north of Portsmouth. A little east of Stonehenge
- Address : Harts Lane, Burghclere, near Newbury, Hampshire, RG20 9JT (Map)
- website
Bletchley Park
- Where Alan Turing and the code breakers cracked the Enigma in WWII.
- Address : The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Sherwood Dr, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK3 6EB, UK
- website
Peterborough Archaeology
- north of Milton Keynes. Roman archeology. Seems like a maybe (if we travel on from Bletchley).
- website
Warner bros Happy Potter Studio
- Address : Warner Bros. Studio Tour Drive, Leavesden, WD25 7LR
- A bit out of the way
- website
North of England : Places to Visit
Treetop Trek
- Ropes, Ziplines, Climbing walls etc.
- Windermere (also one in Manchester)
- Address : Brockhole, A591, Ecclerigg, Windermere LA23 1LJ, UK (Map)
- website
Vindolanda Roman archeological site
- Located half way between Carlisle and Newcastle (right in the middle) right by Hadrians wall
- Address : NE47 7JN (Map)
- https://www.vindolanda.com/
- Open 10am to 6pm (last entrance at 5)
- Guided tours : on a Wed, Sat or Sun (July) plus some odd other days (see website)
- Excavations : watch them dig on Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm (weather permitting)
- We should check out what workshops they have around the time we are near
Scotland : Places to Visit
Ideas:
- Glasgow
- Oban
- Glencoe
- Ben Nevis
- Orkneys and Scara Brae