Life's about experiences. These are mine.
For our final morning we headed back to the Barbican to visit the Mayflower Museum which covered the pilgrims and their journey to America. The museum was spread over three small floors. The top floor covered the indigenous people whose lives had been irrevocably changed by the arrival of Europeans along with looking at those …
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Last full day in Plymouth and the weather turned to rain overnight. We knew that it was predicted to be drizzly this morning and wet after lunch and so we planned accordingly. We left the hotel and got a bus away from town to the coast where we caught the ferry for a short journey …
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After yesterday’s drizzle is was good to wake up to sunshine. This was good news as we were going to be venturing away from the city today on a visit to the National Trust property Saltram. Having said just a couple of days ago that one of the reasons I liked Reading Buses was because …
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When we told people that we had booked a short break to Plymouth the typical reaction was “Why?” The reason was that we wanted to go somewhere we hadn’t been before and we could reach by direct train from Reading. Plymouth ticked both those boxes. However, as we walked the short distance from the station …