Since August!

Bit of a poor showing on the blogging since August really. We've been trying to walk 10 000 steps a day and lose some weight since Geoff was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and it seems to be working.

Quite a few of our weekends were spent visiting universities for Maddy to make her choice for 2017. Yes to qualify for a student loan she has to be resident in the UK for 3 years so won't be going for another year. So we looked at Warwick, Aberystwyth, York St John, Bangor and Winchester
Maddy likes the Welsh universities and York St John. So we shall see where we end up in a couple of years.
open cockpit evening at Cosford Air Base in September,
December saw Stephen getting married to Helen

Wedding Aniversary

20 years! So we traveled to York to The Four Poster Lodge where we played tourist. The York Chocolate Story was well worth a visit - we got to make our own lollies and were given samples on the way round, result :) .

        


On the Saturday we visited Castle Howard, the York Cold War Bunker and the National Railway Museum (more fridge magnets for the collection.

 

                                                                                                               The Cold War Bunker was only closed in 1991 but needed a lot of repairs before it could be opened to the public viewing as there had been some flooding.

 

 

And finally on the Saturday The National Railway Museum.

Sunday was the final day and we went to the air museum and then Bolsover  Castle  on the way back.

There has been quite a lot of work done since our last visit, when we were living in Egypt including the wall walk, the garden and redecorating of the star room.

  

Wales Day 5

Mainly a drive home today but we did manage to pop into one or two places. First we went to King Arthur's Labyrinth to hear the Welsh version of King Arthur's story as we traveled by boat deep underground into an old slate mine, no flash phtography. When we crossed the border back into England we came back via Clun Castle (via some more dodgy single track road - there have been quite a few of them this week).

 

Wales Day 4

Another day another set of amazing trips: Caernarfon Air Museum, a burial chamber, a castle (but not much of one), another burial chamber, castle Bryn Gwyn, Llys Rhosyr, Penmon priory and dovecote, St. Seiriol's Well and finally to end the day Penmon lighthouse.

 

this was the last thing we thought we'd see in the air museum.