Upcoming holidays:

Upcoming Holidays:
25 January 2025 - Sandy is taking a four day cruise - Sydney to Hobart and return.
April 2025 - Not a cruise! - instead a trip to Brisbane to watch the Panthers vs Dolphins game, and of course to see the family.
August 2025 - And again, not a cruise! - a weekend in Sydney to see Star Wars: A New Hope, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing the music live.
27 September 2025 - Slightly early celebration for Paul's 70th birthday - 7 day Barrier Reef cruise on the Carnival (ex-P&O) Encounter.
August - September 2026 - 12 day "British Isles with France and Belfast" cruise on the Majestic Princess then a stay in the UK afterwards.


Friday, 7 October 2016

UK and Med Cruise - Day 30 - 4 October - Nottingham

Today we looked at some sights around the city.  We started off at the castle - which of course mostly isn't there any more - but the duke of the day some time in the 17th century built a huge house on the site.  This is mostly still there, and it now contains an interesting museum.  Lucky for us, as well as all the normal displays, they currently have a display of 10 drawings done by Leonardo da Vinci, including detailed explanations of when/ how / why they were done.  Overall we spent quite some time here.
Next we went to "Ye Old Trip to Jerusalem" for lunch.  This is a really old pub beside the castle - it claims to be the oldest inn in England, but so do quite a few others.
Finished off the afternoon with a walk down by the canal, and then back to the apartment for dinner.

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