London Calling

Hello! See, I'm getting quicker at updating here...

As you may have worked out, the tour is 98% done: there's only one more place/county to do, and that's London. Of course, I'm in Greater London now, but I haven't really visited anywhere in Central London as such, unless you count the LSE Library in Holborn, which I don't. So I'll be doing a proper visit this Monday before heading back to Falmouth on a sleeper train for a "Tea Crawl" to finish it all off... but more on that story later!

Hopefully I will be putting more up about my stays in Bath, Cardiff, Birmingham, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Cambridge and Thornaby later - as well as how I came to purchase a top hat in Whitby - but for now I'll leave you with the news that I'm very very nearly done, and am looking forward to a time where I don't actually have to travel around like a mad thing. After all, a change is as good as a rest, and I could definitely do with a rest!

Thanks for reading,
Chris

I'm back!

More soon, but suffice to say I've now been to...

1. Swindon
2. Bath
3. Dorchester
4. Cardiff
5. Caerphilly
6. Swansea and the Mumbles
7. Ludlow
8. Birmingham
9. Lichfield
10. Sutton Coldfield
11. Leamington Spa
12. Warwick
13. Coventry
14. Oxford
15. Northampton
16. Milton Keynes
17. Cambridge
18. York
19. Thornaby
20. Sunderland
21. Newcastle
22. Gateshead
23. Whitby
24. Durham, and
25. Leeds

All in just 18 days! So you'll forgive me for the absence of posts. There will be more soon, never fear, and I'll do my best to keep you posted this week!

Chris

On the rails again...

Hello once more! You know the stage in the 400m where the athletes are rounding the final straight? Well, that's where this tour is atm: the majority is done, but this last bit will be tiring to say the least. Still, the itinerary is sorted, the places have been identified, and in under 6 hours' time I will be heading off to Bath to re-do my bit on Somerset. Then it's off to Dorchester tomorrow, Cardiff on Saturday, many other Welsh places and Shropshire between Sunday and Wednesday: and with any luck, I will be in Birmingham this time next week, taking on the West Midlands, Warwickshire and Staffordshire.

Hopefully I'll be able to get on t'internet every now and then, but the chances are I won't be able to put pictures up until two or three weeks from now, by which time I'll have shuttled through Oxford, Milton Keynes and Cambridge and will be up in the North-East visiting Newcastle and Durham. But oh well, I'm sure you'll all survive in my somewhat prolonged absence from the world wide web. In any case, the longer I am offline, the more fun I'm having on the tour :)

So take care people, and I'll see you when I see you! Next stop, Swindon...

Chris