Tag: places to go
Places to Go – Berwick-upon-Tweed by Alex Nelson
On the many occasions I have been to visit Berwick, I have always turned right out of the station to follow Castlegate into the...
Places to Go: Rochdale
My visit to Rochdale in May 2019 was something of an experiment. I was trying to see whether this Places to Go column could...
Places to Go: Dundee
A highly enjoyable visit to Dundee could be had without straying more than 100 metres from the newly rebuilt railway station. There is the...
Places to Go: MANCHESTER
The original plan was to go to Jodrell Bank, the radio astronomical observatory in Cheshire, walking distance from a little country station called Goostrey,...
Places to Go: Stoke
In January I had a meeting in Stoke-on-Trent, in north Staffordshire. I was coming from London and stayed overnight in the North Stafford Hotel,...
Places to Go: Peterborough
There are far more people booking rail tickets to Peterborough than actually ever go there, since for adherents to split ticketing, Peterborough is the...
Places to Go – Aberdeen
Aberdeen is 255 miles north of Newcastle by rail, about the same as London, but fares are cheaper because there are plenty of trains...
Places to Go: York
York has more world class sights and attractions per square mile than any other city in the UK. You’re spoiled for choice. If you...
Places to Go: Dumfries
On the way to Glasgow I stopped over one night in Dumfries, a Scottish town which is a suitable day trip from the north-east,...
Places to Go: Whitby
Sometimes after my travels, I just want to sit down and write up my findings, just to be able to “bottle” what I have...
