Holidays

When I go on holiday, I like to go to somewhere there are lots of historical buildings/monuments/sites of interest that I can explore. My best ever holiday was in Egypt, I absolutely loved exploring the Valleys of the Kings and Queens; The Pyramid complex at Giza and various Temples. These days I tend to stick to UK holidays and am slowly working through the English Heritage catalogue of castles.

One thing to be careful of. Is that many historical places are closed on certain days or even over the winter months.

I missed out on Donegal castle, Totnes castle because I was there on the wrong day of the week.

The Hadrians wall bus service only ran April to October. 

The moral is check before you travel.

I got caught like that in February last year - took my daughter down to do a course during her uni 'reading week' (half term) expecting to drop her off every morning and pick her up every evening and each day I was planning on visiting local touristy stuff - unfortunately, everything was only open the week before and closed during the week I was there - the half terms weren't synchronised.    I got to sit in a Costa every day and wait for her instead.

I got caught like that in February last year - took my daughter down to do a course during her uni 'reading week' (half term) expecting to drop her off every morning and pick her up every evening and each day I was planning on visiting local touristy stuff - unfortunately, everything was only open the week before and closed during the week I was there - the half terms weren't synchronised.    I got to sit in a Costa every day and wait for her instead.