Adventures of journey boy and destination girl

  The Netherlands After an uneventful trip across the pond via ferry to the Netherlands, we stashed our bags and visited the Rijksmuseum, wow I had been there 39 years ago but the building alone is an architectural marvel crammed packed with so much art, sculpture, furnishings that after 3 hours you just cant take anymore in.  We collected our stuff and headed to Den Haag (The Hague).  Wow the Peace Palace housing the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague Academy of International Law.  I couldn’t help but notice Mission Impossible the final reckoning locations. The architecture, canals and overall feel of Den Haag is lovely.  Peace Palace Canal trip Belgium Another train trip and we landed in Brugges , yep it is everything you have been told, no exaggeration the old town is stunning, the architecture is mind blowing, everywhere you look, every alley you look around and see something amazing.   Needs to be ...

  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...