July 28, 2011 - Photo Update
This is part one of a two part post: the second part will be about my recent holiday on the Isle of Mull; this part is to gather together other updates to the photo albums from holidays and outings since… well… 2009. The one omission is a holiday in California in November 2010, which will get a separate post to follow another day.
Around the North East:
A number of updates from visits by my parents in March 2009 (including visits to the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Gibside and the Tanfield Railway), October 2010 (a walk from the Angel of the North back to Chester Le Street) and April 2011 (including the Farne Islands, South Shields and Beamish).
More additions to these galleries from two weeks holiday in June 2009, when I hired a car to continue exploring some of the less accessible places I hadn’t visited before, including Fountains Abbey, Dunstanburgh, Finchale Abbey, and Bede’s World, as well as returning to old favourites including the Farne Islands, Cragside and North York Moors Railway.
Multiple visits to Beamish after purchasing an annual pass on the Easter weekend 2009 (for the same price as a day ticket.) A highlight was the Steam Festival in September, which included a rare opportunity to see the miniature railway in action, and to ride on the footplate of a steam locomotive on the line from the Station. In May this year I discovered that there are now regular steam rides at the Station, hence another steam-focussed update to this gallery for 2011.
Also many day trips, including two outings with students from my college this year, to Hadrian’s Wall and to Lindisfarne and the Farne Islands (in late June, which proved to be an ideal time for puffins if also the height of the season for being dive-bombed by the arctic terns).
Plus two visits to the National Railway Museum at Shildon, which I explored for the first time in June 2010. This was the occasion of the arrival of the record-breaking steam locomotive ‘Mallard’, hauled from York by ‘Tornado’, the steam locomotive completed in 2008, and the first to be built in the UK since 1960.
New additions are
- Fountains Abbey (June 2009)
- Dunstanburgh (June 2009)
- Locomotion (June and September 2010)
- Finchale Priory (June 2009)
- Bede’s World (June 2009)
- Gibside (March 2009)
- Washington Old Hall (May 2009)
Return visits to
- Farne Islands & Lindisfarne (June 2009, April and June 2011)
- Hadrian’s Wall (nos. 11-21 (second visit to Housesteads and walk to Sycamore Gap) - June 2011)
- Cragside (nos. 18-25 - June 2009)
- Belsay (nos. 16-17 (The lake) - August 2010)
- North York Moors Railway (nos. 16-31 - June 2009)
- Whitby (nos. 2-16 - June 2009)
- Beamish (nos. 14-68 - April 2009 to May 2011)
- Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (nos. 11-31 - March and June 2009)
- Tanfield Railway (nos. 20-24 (Cochrane in steam) - March 2009)
- South Shields (nos. 2-4 - April 2011)
- Count Durham, Tyne and Wear (Washington Old Hall - May 2009; Angel of the North (3&4) - October 2010 and June 2011; Weardale Way - April 2011)
In the South:
Pictures from a short holiday on the Kennet and Avon Canal in April 2010, travelling from Bradford on Avon to Bath and back. Also updates from a visit to Surrey in July 2009, when my brother was over from America, including visits to the British Wildlife Centre and my first visit to Marwell Zoo; and a trip to Anglesey Abbey during a visit to my cousin in Norwich in March 2010.
New additions are
- Marwell Zoo (July 2009)
- Anglesey Abbey (March 2010)
- Bath and the Kennet & Avon Canal (April 2010)
Updates to
- British Wildlife Centre (nos. 20 (badger)- 51 - July 2009)
Iona
Two beautiful days on Iona with my Mum in June 2010, including my first visit to Staffa.
And finally…:
The Doctor Who Exhibition in Newcastle, July 2010.
