Day 16 - Oxford

Lots of Colleges

In the Ashmolean museum

In the Ashmolean Museum


White: I just started - Pink: I am Halfway - Red: I am done.

Harry Potters' Hogwarts Dining room

Kitty kitty

College

College
Oxford is nothing more then a group of Colleges which make up the University. Almost everything is owned by some College. It is fun to walk around and see the quirky way the educate here (as long as it lasts). A lot of Harry Potter kind of scenes as well.
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Day 15 - The Midlands

LongLeat House

The Madonna with the Big Boobies (for real!)

Stonehenge

LongLeat House
On our way from Bath to Oxford we came by some interesting places like Longleat House and Stonehenge. Stonehenge is actually not that interesting and great - millions of tourists - but it is the most famous artifact from the prehistoric period, so something you have to see in you lifetime for real. (So an other thing we can check from our bucket list).
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Day 14 - Bath

Pulteney Bridge - designed by Robert Adams

Jacobs' Ladder

The Bath in...uh... Bath!

Circus Crescent
Bath is a very popular tourist town. It has been since the romans found a hot spring here. The Baths are still there and the museum gives you a good impression about the development since the Romans. Also famous of course are the crescents - ons of the most prestigious addresses in the world perhaps. If only the houses were nice as well - they are not I think. The lay out is nice though.
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Day 13 - Cardiff (castle)



We did not had so much time to spend in Cardiff - but is seems a pretty town. The highlight is  Cardiff Castle which is actually something created in the 19th century and is a sort of Neu Swanstein all over- and inside.
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Day 12 - Wales

On the road
Trying to avoid sheep
In a slate mine - deep under ground
Wales really stole my heart - it is gorgeous! The roads are perfect, empty and made for riding motor cycles it seems... The weather was so-so but that did not prevent us from having fun. If only the midges weren't there in the summer - they are really a huge (or tiny...?) nuisance.
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Statues at Chatsworth




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Rolls Royce & Bentley Club at Chatsworth

1960 Bentley S2 Continental (Mulliner)?

1960 Bentley S2 Continental Saloon (Young)

Lots of fine cars
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Day 11: Peak district

Chatsworth House

The dining table ready for the Queens Jubilee

Haddon Hall

From one national park to the other over the most interesting, beautiful and curvy roads we continue our way down south. Now we are in the Peak District - which is stunning and has lots of things to do. We visited Chatsworth and Haddon Hall.
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Day 10: the rest of York

On top of the Minster
Great Organ concert

The medieval streets
York is a wonderful medieval little town - with lots of old stuff to see and of course the famous York Minster. Also here is the National Railway Museum which is one of the biggest in the world (with the Flying Scotsman e.g.). After a quest of more the two years I finally found my silver English soup spoons at Mulberry Hall- so now we really can enjoy soup the proper way...
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Day 9: York

Castle Howard
Statue Gallery in Castle Howard
James Herriots' House
Calling at James's door
Castle Howard is one of the grandest private residences in Britain and we were lucky to walk around (alone) early in the morning gazing at the magnificent rooms and especially the entry hall. This is where Bridgehead Revisited has been filmed (twice: the TV series and the movie) - so you recongnise quit a lot actually. After the castle we went to an other house: that of James Herriot (aka Alfie Wight) to have a look into the real world of a Yorkshire vet, the TV studio's where the series was recorded and some other fun artifacts of the famous writer/vet.
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Day 8: Yorkshire (Dales and Moor)

Beatrice Potter
Blackwell House - Art & Craft

Yorkshire Dales

Yorkshire Dales

Rievaulx Abbey

From the lakes we go east to Yorkshire (the Dales and the Moors). But first we take a peak at the house of Beatrice Potter and an other famous Art & craft House (blackwell). Then riding through the dales with its endless stone walls, sheeps and meadows. It is nice, but I had expected it to be even grander. The same for the Yorkshire Moors. Maybe it is because we already saw some amazing landscapes in Scotland and the Lake District, maybe we are riding to fast - I do not know, but it is a bit disappointing.
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Day 7 - the lake district and so...

Drumlanrig Castle

The Lake District
And further south we go into the Lake District which is very pretty indeed. It was also the day that we said goodbye to Scotland and hello again to England. We had much fun in Scotland and saw some awesome things - we will certainly return (if the Scots provide us with the same weather again that is...). The Lake district is very touristy and there are an awful lot of hotels, inns and B&B's along the several lake borders. We have chosen one of the best along the windermere lake: Merewood hotel which has a terrific view over the lake and let's hope good food as well...
Riding here is really fun with lots of curves and inclines as steep as 20% (up and down).
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Day 6 South!

Culzean Castle

Culzean again

Finally I had a good night of sleep...

Sheep everywhere you look and ride
Now we have started our long way south on the British Island. We had to stop at Culzean castle of course because it is one of the finest pieces that is designed by Robert Adam from which we already saw George house, Hopetoun and Inveraray earlier this trip. The famous oval staircase and round room didn't let us down and where simply beautiful and with a stunning view of the Ayrshire coast. The were very few people visiting, so we had practically the place for our own. We ended up in Galloway / Dumbfries - the weather still holding up very high temperatures.
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