Adventures of journey boy and destination girl

  Holy Island home of Vera, Lindisfarne Castle and the causeway I would love to say that we narrowly missed being swept out to see by the causeway leading to Holy Island but that would be a furphy, we did however drive over the crest of a hill to see about a thousand cars in front of us which were in fact there for a music festival.  Panic averted we drove over the causeway without incident. Holy Island the home of Vera, BBC TV sleuth, is also home to three pubs, a hotel and a post office.  Like most of our trip its been around for ages, 6th century AD; Saint Cuthbert had a hut he lived in for 10 years. Happy by himself, when he died his followers dug him up and paraded his bones around the country against his wishes. There are pieces of him in churches all over the country. Figures. The photos of the castle are 16th century Lindisfarne Castle and lime kilns. A day of Castles Bamburgh Castle is impressive and can be seen for miles. Again, it has been around for nearly ...

Liverpool - Wow oh wow Liverpool is amazing, we arrived on a Sunday to a town exploding with people everywhere, frocks in every colour shapes and sizes even the dudes looked snazzy it felt like West Berlin before the wall came down, 6000 plus open air concert, the fuzz on most corners.  It took us almost 4 hours to work out that Monday was a bank holiday. We loved the old and new architecture, The Cunard and Royal Liver buildings were lovely.  They have fabulous wide pedestrian malls that stretched for miles.  Our hotel room at the Dixie Dean was interesting the room slept 6 with a large spa bath and two additional baths - weird.  It appears their target market is hens and bucks parties.  It wasn't brilliant but the location was good.  That 1st evening we went to Ivy restaurant, reminds me a little of Sydney Ivy.  Terrific food and amazing ambience.   The Beatles - probably the highlight of Bradley trip so far the museum was inform...