Alnwick Castle is the modern-day family home of the Dukes of Northumberland. Sculpted stone figures depicting medieval soldiers top the crenallated tower above the castle’s bailey. Many visitors recognise the castle from the films Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It has been used by filmmakers as sets in numerous movies, as well as Brancaster Castle in special editions of the popular Downton Abbey television series.
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Staying with a family in Inverness, Isabella Sampson, from South Australia, experienced the Scottish Highlands like a local. She shares highlights of her time in the Highlands of Scotland. Disclosure: Some of the links below and banners are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through
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Looking for reasons to visit Harrogate, North Yorkshire? The spa town was once a destination of choice among members of European high society. Royalty, nobles and people of influence enjoyed lengthy stays to 'take the waters', which were believed be beneficial to health, and spent time socialising.
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Bleached coral crunches under the soles of my sliders as I step along the beach on Huraa Island. Tiny pieces tinkle like glass breaking as I move towards the shoreline. The finger-long chunks of coral look like a cross between pitted, sun-dried bones and white-painted tree branches.
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The 90-minute session was hilarious. Yet it provided a tremendous insight into what it takes to learn a choreographed dance routine and be an entertainer in one of London’s West End shows.
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While at the World Rugby Museum I learnt that the codified sport now played by three million people around the world was preceded by games known as tsu chu in China, harpastum in the Roman Empire and episkyros in Ancient Greece.One of the walls debunks the popular notion that William Webb Ellis invented the game, though the cup presented to world champions New Zealand on 31 October still bears his name. You can see a replica of the trophy in the museum.
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Spray is kicking up from the surface of Lake Brienz in Switzerland. I'm combining sightseeing with an adrenalin burst during a trip jet boat tour with Jetboat Interlaken.
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The Cincinnati Open was first played in 1899. That makes it the second-oldest tennis tournament in the USA, behind the U.S. Open.
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“I don’t consider myself an elder but I’ve seen a temperature change of about 20°F in my lifetime. I remember when I was a child it was regularly -65°F [-53°C],” recalls Harold Johnson at Kwäday Dän Kenji – the Long Ago Peoples Place – of winters in the Yukon.
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We think of the heyday of commercial signage in the United States being from around the end of the 1930s to the ‘60s and ‘70s. You're going to see a wide variety of different styles, typefaces and materials.
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