Days Out

Visit: The British Museum

This is a great recap of British prehistory through the Romans and moving on to introduce the Anglo-Saxons. The visit had to wait until I...

This was added onto our July 2020 "what is still open during this pandemic" tour. Bath has the definitive Roman Baths in the UK because...

Post-covid you can only attend this small site in groups, but it is worth trying to find as it is a surprise private Roman bathhouse...

With amphitheatre across the road! Outside the main museum are a variety of other "Roman" attractions - the two big ones being a Roman...

The Fitzwilliam Museum was relevant for two reasons - it has a Greco-Roman gallery, but also, it has an imposing (19th Century)...

July 2021: Restarting history visits after a long autumn, winter and spring of coronavirus restrictions, we have now moved properly onto...

July 2020: Day 6 of our Prehistory Week. A site with clusters of reconstructed historical buildings from different periods. We had been...

July 2020: Day 4 of our Prehistory Week. Old Sarum is an English-Heritage run Iron Age hill fort earthwork site which had the entrance...

July 2020: Day 3 of Prehistory Week. Stonehenge plus another site nearby (Woodhenge or Durrington)

July 2020: Day two of our Prehistory week was doing Avebury Stone circle and the surrounding monuments, including Silbury Hill, West...

July 2020: Day 1 of our Prehistory Week was travel with a stop-off at Uffington White Horse on our way to our first hotel in Marlborough,...

Covid-19 led to some changes of plan from our original schedule for 2020! February 2020 was not a good time to begin a project based on...

March 2020: We went to Cresswell Crags to see the cave art. We did two tours, the Ice Age life one and the cave art one itself, then...

February 2020 We started our hopefully epic five-year mission with a gentle introduction and a soft bridge in from the extinction of the...